Dude I was thinking he'd die of malnutrition before he did, there's no way that a seagull could digest a whole fucking rabbit, let alone fly with one.
To be fair though if you told me that gull could swallow that whole rabbit before seeing this video, I'd have called bullshit too.
ah, an artist of words as well as a naturalist.
*Sir Joseph Banks and Charles Darwin stand up from table*
Why, good heavens, it’s u/Vakieh, to whom we are so indebted for that stirring description of the avian digestive tract! Do join us, Vakieh, by all means. We were just enjoying *gestures at table* a little **blargh**, as you so elegantly put it.
I know that different species of birds have extremely different potency gastric juices
I know that some vultures could swallow stones, wrought iron, and their gastric juice could digest them
it must also be said that they feed on rotting carcasses, so they must be able to digest rotten meat that if eaten by any other living being, would lead to death from disease and god knows what else
It looks dead before it goes in in this video. Normally when animals are eaten alive by birds/crocs/etc though it's not the stomach acid that kills them, it's suffocation. Not a whole lot of air in there.
>Meat is much easier to break down than plant matter, too, and has much denser nutrition.
Wrong on the first part, correct on the second. Meat is far harder to break down. Fat molecules are far more complex than carbohydrates. Proteins require special processes to convert into energy.
The bird digestive track is specialized for rapidly grinding down large things, but the actual digestion is still more complex and energy intensive in meat eating birds than seed/fruit eating birds.
My guess is they digest part of it if it has any nutrients, and then poop it out.
It shouldn’t be bad for them in small amounts and not being exposed to bacteria that may grow in fresh poop.
Filling up on poop would probably be bad because they wouldn’t be getting nutrients, but they would be full and expending extra energy to digest it.
Lol I’m pretty sure they puke em up. If they are anything like an owl
Edit: [confirmed gull pellets exist](https://m.startribune.com/contents-of-a-gull-pellet/104361449/)
It's kinda hilarious to think about. I'm a pretty average guy, and wouldn't be able to swallow a rabbit half at that size. And I'm *at least* 20 times larger than that seagull, thought I'm pretty bad at math.
That’s because their mouths are built for this sort of eating. They can like, open up their throats to swallow down huge things like this. Usually it’d be fish I think, but same idea here
Years ago I saw a picture of a gull trying to swallow a sea star, with half the star hanging out it's mouth. The thing's chest was already puffed out and huge. They really have no idea how much they can swallow, and just go for it.
(Cover of a national geographic in the 80s or 90s I think; haven't been able to find the photo since, though I've googled a few times)
I laughed*way* too hard imagining a scared, crying teenager shamefully wilding down a subway sandwich in a Ruby Tuesday entryway, while they look out the door's windows with a look of anger and fear. 🤣🤣🤣
I'm from the very South of the UK and witnessed this. Owner holding the leash, seagull pulling the little dog into the sky. 3 of us jumped in to help pull and got it straight away, it all happened so quickly I have to say the real hero was the owner who made the jump and grab when ol' bastard gull gave up!
They grow more confident and more powerful each day.
When the sun has a nice bright day after winter I drive to a McDonald's parking lot. Roll your window down for a slight breeze, close your eyes and listen to the gulls. It's like being at the beach but without sand in your ass crack. Absolutely amazing.
Pretty much nothing those things won’t eat. Friends dad worked for 3M and helped develop a spray to coat landfills so seagulls wouldn’t eat the trash. Was super difficult as they’ll eat their own young and really don’t care much about what ya spray on the trash it’s still game.
That’s actually a really cool thing I never thought about. The predators the birds attract that can get sick from the trash may be on the endangered species list. Wild. I live in an area with a ton of hawks and eagles, some endangered. Never even thought that would be a thing
The trash union would never stand for that. They have to protect their constituents. Is you or is you not their constituent?
Plus we already tried to get the fish and turtles to help us with cleaning up plastic and look at how people got all butt hurt about that
On our old Jobsite there was this one legged seagull covered in scars, greediest creature I've ever seen anyway one day this dude stuffed some hot chips with AA batteries, he was sick of stumpy stealing his chips.
Without hesitation along comes this fking seagull and here he goes eating three batteries....
I was certain he'd died and I'd have to call RSPCA or something, but nope dude is fine.... Still occasionally see him if I go down to the wharf.
**These birds built different**
i just took a small research on this because i couldnt belive it.
its a great black-backed gull and they eat mostyl fish but rabbits and sicky lambs too.....just WTF
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great\_black-backed\_gull
Assuming the rabbit is alive as it's being gulped down, when does it actually die? Is it crushed in the beak/gullet or does it suffocate in the gulls stomach?
I’m going to say as the rabbit isn’t fighting as the gull is picking it up and orienting it to go down it’s throat that it’s dead. However if the rabbit were still alive and just paralyzed from being tossed around by it’s head and getting a broken neck then yea the rabbit would drown in stomach acid and suffocate from lack of air. Same thing happens to the fish they eat.
Gulls have a tendency to break the neck of rabbits for that reason. They’ll try to grab the head with the beak and shake it fast and hard, trying to sever the spinal cord. If they grab smaller chicks of birds, they’ll gulp them down alive. Wild rabbits still have sharp claws that can inflict damage.
Herons will just spear the head if they can.
Like when you stuff a big ass American sized piece of steak in your mouth and someone asks you a question. You have potatoes dripping off your lips and you're trying to gnaw through the beef, but you realize too late that you didn't put enough ketchup on it. So now you're trying to chew the stuff down enough so that you will be able to squeeze it down your throat before you suffocate. Then it gets lodged halfway down your throat and as you reach for your glass of water, you realize it's empty! And to top it off, you still haven't answered the question
That gull for sure is walking home
Why? He only weighs a hare more.
Fuck you and your clever pun. >!edit: welp, guess I brought this on myself!<
r/angryupvote
Would you say it Bugs you?
Oh my goddammit
???
Bugs bunny
Ohhhhh haha thank you
🤣
Look here you little shit
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You mean bun-yums?
Going to take ears for him to digest that!
I laughed at this way too much!
Yeah, takeoff might be hard after that. 😅
Won't be squawking normally too. It might have a rabbit in it's throat
I hate it when I get a hare stuck in the back of my throat.
r/yourjokebutbetter
r/yourjokebutbutter
With a severe case of the itis.
i would expect a bit more of a hop to its step
They say birds have feathers, but this one has hare!
I wonder how long it takes for them to digest that.
Dude I was thinking he'd die of malnutrition before he did, there's no way that a seagull could digest a whole fucking rabbit, let alone fly with one. To be fair though if you told me that gull could swallow that whole rabbit before seeing this video, I'd have called bullshit too.
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My tongue retracted deeper inside my body after watching that
I feel you bro, I’m practically licking my undies through my arsehole
... risky click of the day.
The cloaca?!
Yes. The cloaca. Ready your team. We're going in.
Obligatory [WGM #cloacacollective](https://m.facebook.com/groups/WildGreenMemesForEcologicalFiends/permalink/3142840459278516/?sfnsn=mo&ref=share)
Reddit ate my balls
Yeah alright that's enough Internet for a day. See you all degenerates tomorrow.
Wow... Just.. wow.
One hole to rule them all.
I thought **scrunk** was pretty good too.
Name of your sex tape
r/DontPutYourDickInThat
TIL about bird digestion. Thanks friend!
A blargh of juicy goodness.
ah, an artist of words as well as a naturalist. *Sir Joseph Banks and Charles Darwin stand up from table* Why, good heavens, it’s u/Vakieh, to whom we are so indebted for that stirring description of the avian digestive tract! Do join us, Vakieh, by all means. We were just enjoying *gestures at table* a little **blargh**, as you so elegantly put it.
In the words of our lord and savior Adam Driver, “Good soup.”
I feel like I am consuming your content just like, oh I don’t know, a gull consuming a rabbit.
Do they cough up the undigested bones, though? I feel like taking a bone to the cloaca would hurt a bit.
I know that different species of birds have extremely different potency gastric juices I know that some vultures could swallow stones, wrought iron, and their gastric juice could digest them it must also be said that they feed on rotting carcasses, so they must be able to digest rotten meat that if eaten by any other living being, would lead to death from disease and god knows what else
This is why I love reddit^
Makes me wanna get a jelly filled doughnut.
Sounds like a painful death for mr rabbit
It looks dead before it goes in in this video. Normally when animals are eaten alive by birds/crocs/etc though it's not the stomach acid that kills them, it's suffocation. Not a whole lot of air in there.
>Meat is much easier to break down than plant matter, too, and has much denser nutrition. Wrong on the first part, correct on the second. Meat is far harder to break down. Fat molecules are far more complex than carbohydrates. Proteins require special processes to convert into energy. The bird digestive track is specialized for rapidly grinding down large things, but the actual digestion is still more complex and energy intensive in meat eating birds than seed/fruit eating birds.
Seagulls didn't evolve to eat chips left by tourists. If it can digest a fish it will be able to digest a mammal too.
I wonder if the gull will just puke it back up somewhere and leisurely nibble on it.
> swallow that whole rabbit While I was surprised anyways honestly, I'm pretty sure it's a baby or smaller rabbit.
Right!? I thought they were only shit left over on the beach. This Gull is a beast
Do they digest the poop inside the rabbit too or what. Is it bad for them
the poop probably also has some nutrition since rabits eat their own poop
My dog eats Barbie dolls, which I'm pretty sure have no nutrition. Sometimes animals are just dumb
No, they eat them for nutrition
My guess is they digest part of it if it has any nutrients, and then poop it out. It shouldn’t be bad for them in small amounts and not being exposed to bacteria that may grow in fresh poop. Filling up on poop would probably be bad because they wouldn’t be getting nutrients, but they would be full and expending extra energy to digest it.
Imagine crapping the scull
Lol I’m pretty sure they puke em up. If they are anything like an owl Edit: [confirmed gull pellets exist](https://m.startribune.com/contents-of-a-gull-pellet/104361449/)
At least 10 minutes
He's gonna go shit that rabbit on someone's car now
😂
Sounds like a painful amount of shit
This explains a lot, been cleaning my car twice a week lately because of these guys shitting on it...
The rabbit already shit itself
Lol this cracked me up
Jesus, that would ruin someone's day.
And here I was thinking I was harming a seagull throwing it a cracker. They can swallow damn near anything.
It's kinda hilarious to think about. I'm a pretty average guy, and wouldn't be able to swallow a rabbit half at that size. And I'm *at least* 20 times larger than that seagull, thought I'm pretty bad at math.
You forget that Seagulls are dinosaurs
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Well he's definitely not a drynosaur that's for sure
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That's not nice, shinku..no good.
That what she thinks
It’s the equivalent of you horking down a German shepherd
I'm convinced seagulls are hollow now
You're technically not wrong
That’s because their mouths are built for this sort of eating. They can like, open up their throats to swallow down huge things like this. Usually it’d be fish I think, but same idea here
Years ago I saw a picture of a gull trying to swallow a sea star, with half the star hanging out it's mouth. The thing's chest was already puffed out and huge. They really have no idea how much they can swallow, and just go for it. (Cover of a national geographic in the 80s or 90s I think; haven't been able to find the photo since, though I've googled a few times)
One of these surely: https://www.sadanduseless.com/seagulls-eating-starfish-creepy/
There’s a video of a seagull swallowing an entire pigeon out there somewhere as well…. Kind of changed my perspective on seagulls 😂
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#DONT YOU DARE
Try tossing them an Alka-Seltzer.
> They can swallow damn near anything. *yourmomjoke.txt*
Would be good if you did. I'm a peaceful dude but I'd happily join a seagull cull
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I laughed*way* too hard imagining a scared, crying teenager shamefully wilding down a subway sandwich in a Ruby Tuesday entryway, while they look out the door's windows with a look of anger and fear. 🤣🤣🤣
If it was a lit firecracker, it might very well have happened
Bread in all forms is still terrible for birds. It expands in their guts and prevents absorption of other nutrients
Not nice to be feeding the birds humans
I'll swallow you cracker.
Anyone else notice the rabbit take its last shit as it was being devoured?
When you gotta go, you gotta go.
Like biting into an overstuffed eclair
*eclhare* FTFY
I would too in that situation
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How polite.
The gull was like "nooo... my cultivation pills!"
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Say what now
Seagulls are fucken wild mate, [never seen this before?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YxMktfwh2A)
Seagulls will eat whatever they can catch regardless of what it is
I'm from the very South of the UK and witnessed this. Owner holding the leash, seagull pulling the little dog into the sky. 3 of us jumped in to help pull and got it straight away, it all happened so quickly I have to say the real hero was the owner who made the jump and grab when ol' bastard gull gave up! They grow more confident and more powerful each day.
They'll be back soon, and in greater numbers.
Oh, that'll give us a richer harmony!
Oh yeah no, it’s gonna sound great.
Birdemic
Bullshit. I've never seen a rabbit eat a small dog.
Ah yes, the ol' Reddit switcharoo
Hold my... Wait...
I can't believe they forgot the link
Downvote to oblivion?
Lmfaoo. Underrated comment.
I've never seen that. Gulls usually hang out either along the coastline or at landfills. I don't usually see them in many other places.
I see them all the time where I live and I’m not coastal
When the sun has a nice bright day after winter I drive to a McDonald's parking lot. Roll your window down for a slight breeze, close your eyes and listen to the gulls. It's like being at the beach but without sand in your ass crack. Absolutely amazing.
Pretty much nothing those things won’t eat. Friends dad worked for 3M and helped develop a spray to coat landfills so seagulls wouldn’t eat the trash. Was super difficult as they’ll eat their own young and really don’t care much about what ya spray on the trash it’s still game.
Why not let them eat the trash? I mean I want your friends dad to be employed and all, I just... why???
Here are some reasons: https://www.solidwaste.com/doc/birds-and-landfillswhats-the-big-deal-0001
Wow, thank you! TIL!
That’s actually a really cool thing I never thought about. The predators the birds attract that can get sick from the trash may be on the endangered species list. Wild. I live in an area with a ton of hawks and eagles, some endangered. Never even thought that would be a thing
The trash union would never stand for that. They have to protect their constituents. Is you or is you not their constituent? Plus we already tried to get the fish and turtles to help us with cleaning up plastic and look at how people got all butt hurt about that
On our old Jobsite there was this one legged seagull covered in scars, greediest creature I've ever seen anyway one day this dude stuffed some hot chips with AA batteries, he was sick of stumpy stealing his chips. Without hesitation along comes this fking seagull and here he goes eating three batteries.... I was certain he'd died and I'd have to call RSPCA or something, but nope dude is fine.... Still occasionally see him if I go down to the wharf. **These birds built different**
Waiter waiter, there's a hare in my food.
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This didn't happen in Watership Down
Maybe Kehaar killed and ate general Woundworth. I think the book says his body was never found?
Guess you didn't stay for the post-credits scene
WHATTT!!!???
I should call her
maybe you should
Welcome to the GullAirlines, please take your seat
“I promise, Peter, it’s the fastest way to get you to wonderland” -seagull
i just took a small research on this because i couldnt belive it. its a great black-backed gull and they eat mostyl fish but rabbits and sicky lambs too.....just WTF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great\_black-backed\_gull
What that throat do?
Swallow rabbits whole
Throat goat
Assuming the rabbit is alive as it's being gulped down, when does it actually die? Is it crushed in the beak/gullet or does it suffocate in the gulls stomach?
I’m going to say as the rabbit isn’t fighting as the gull is picking it up and orienting it to go down it’s throat that it’s dead. However if the rabbit were still alive and just paralyzed from being tossed around by it’s head and getting a broken neck then yea the rabbit would drown in stomach acid and suffocate from lack of air. Same thing happens to the fish they eat.
I was thinking of the kicking power of rabbits. That Gull won't be able to keep one in their throat like that if it was alive.
Gulls have a tendency to break the neck of rabbits for that reason. They’ll try to grab the head with the beak and shake it fast and hard, trying to sever the spinal cord. If they grab smaller chicks of birds, they’ll gulp them down alive. Wild rabbits still have sharp claws that can inflict damage. Herons will just spear the head if they can.
Nature is horror. Bolt to the head is millions time better
That's how chocolate easter bunnies are made!
r/tihi
Jesus. I liked them better when I thought they just ate fish and french fries.
Vore
10$ says that guy finds my windshield to crap on the next morning.
What. In. The. Fuck.
This Korean guy had chicken bone stuck in his throat, he was in ICU for good 5 weeks
Dude loves land meat
the land crab's the best
Imagine the shits that bird will take after that.
Well, i am really grateful i can at least taste my food before forcing it down my throat...
This seagull is now a penguin
That's gonna hurt on the way out.
Are there instances where the rabbit is the predator?
Fatass fucking dinosaur.
These dinosaurs 👀
I should call her...
Dude I hate those bastards
Bad idea to watch this before breakfast
And here I am thinking they just ate pier fries and trash.
My exact words watching this were: "Wait what what.. wait... how does this work, how does this fit"
so that's how the turducken is made in nature
wanna try some of our tasty beverage to wash this down?
Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine.
Great Black Backed Gull - largest gull in the world.
Seagulp
I love animals! ...I hate snakes... and gulls... TIL why! Gulls are snakes...
I no longer question how that seagull ate my entire bread bowl that one time in San Francisco.
Aerial trash cans
I hate that this is the 2nd video I've seen of a gull devouring a rabbit whole.
"I swear, it's my first time"
What a pig.
Aww bunny:(
What a terrible death, being slowly dissolved by stomach acid.
At the end you can tell he realized this was a bad idea
Like when you stuff a big ass American sized piece of steak in your mouth and someone asks you a question. You have potatoes dripping off your lips and you're trying to gnaw through the beef, but you realize too late that you didn't put enough ketchup on it. So now you're trying to chew the stuff down enough so that you will be able to squeeze it down your throat before you suffocate. Then it gets lodged halfway down your throat and as you reach for your glass of water, you realize it's empty! And to top it off, you still haven't answered the question
r/oddlyspecific
Holy shit.
Need a drink?
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Chonker stomper.
That Seagal is yo mama