Gulls' vicious attacks on whales

bbc ^ | 24 June 2009

[george76]

The attacks around Peninsula Valdes were first noted about 35 years ago but systematic studies have only recently begun.

The proportion of whales attacked annually has soared from 1% in 1974 to 78% today.

[george76]

The The gulls have learned to attack mothers and calves more often than other whales.

[freedumb2003]

Glo-gull warming!

[Migraine]

Whales are more intelligent than humans (Discovery Channel, Learning Channel, National Geographic, A & E all agree). They should figure out some counter=measures vs these bird=brains, no problem. /sarc

[jazusamo]

Now that is weird!

[fullchroma]

for later..

[JoeProBono]

[Daffynition]

The whale is the main course .... then they go for dessert.......

[Young Werther]

The headline sounded as if it was chronicling a hockey game!

[cripplecreek]

I know how they feel. I was just out wading through the brush behind the garage and stirred up the skeeters.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Kill a few thousand gulls. It’s not like they would be missed.

[Blood of Tyrants]

P.S. You would have to shoot them, just poison some fish scraps and toss it to the birds.

[cripplecreek]

I think somebody quietly eliminated a bunch of swans from the lake I live on. There must have been 60 or 70 of them but now I’m only seeing a couple of families.

[rahbert]

very bad luck to kill a swan.

[EdReform]

Rats with wings

[redhead]

Rats with wings and beaks.

[LiberConservative]

I hate seagulls. They’re nothing but flying vermin.

[cripplecreek]

Mute swans are an invasive species and they kill ducklings and goslings. I don’t mind a few swans but 60 or 70 of them on a 300 acre lake is far too many.

[SunkenCiv]

Maybe the gulls need glasses or somethin’.

[Jeff Chandler]

Pigeons are fun, too.