October 30, 2006: Pelican attacks pigeon

Wolf submits this BBC story image and notes "non friday iotd".

Yes, although the image above looks kind of interesting, it's a slow murder in progress. According to the story,

Expanding his horizons. Sometimes you just get sick of fish...

Why is this any worse than eating a fish?

DEJA VU

Maybe they were just SQUABbling.

this WAS on here before, wasn't it?

No, the story is from last Wednesday.

I'm freakin out, man

But it's been around. It was in our paper. You probably saw it somewhere else too.

You really have to see the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T569Z8t8ZA0

thank you

So. You're a pigeon. You're walking around, feelin' safe coz you're with other feathered, billed critters and then-BAM!-you get eaten.

Damn MotherNature can be a bitch.

That's "bee yotch", bitch.
:p

Why would you just sit there like that??

"oh sure, no eat me, its fine..should I scrunch down a little or point my toes to make it easier?"

I'd be squawking like a bee yotch

Oh blerg...I just watched the video

Seeeeeeeeeeee....

It's not just the sick people HERE who look at a cute animal and see:

FOOOOOOD!!!

Acroyear

Hmmm...don't know what to say about this pic. On the one hand, it's a bit hard to swallow. Pardon the pun. On the other, I guess that's just the way the feathers fall in the wide wonderful world we live in.

So if you ate the pelican would it be pigeon flavoured? That'd certainly be better economy if it did.

damn.... I think I'm a bee estid.

carry on.

lol...yes I noticed that foot.

Catch that sucker and breed it, clone it, anything. We need a lot more of him/her....I'm not good at Pelican sexing...... to help the Peregrine Falcons clean up the cities.
Take the money from the statue cleaning fund.

Have you seen the size of pelican shits?

Well it's quite simple really. There's a bridge in my city which goes over a bay. The bridge is lit by a series of overhead street lights. The pelicans perch on these during the day while they scope the bay for food. Nature calls and they shit on your windscreen.

Trying to clean pelican shit off your windscreen with the wipers and water from little squirters is just simply pointless. It just smears everywhere.

Between the stingrays and the pelicans Australia is becoming less and less attractive as my new home. Next you'll probably tell me some crazy shit like, oh I don't know,

soil erosion from overgrazing, industrial development, urbanization, and poor farming practices; soil salinity rising due to the use of poor quality water; desertification; clearing for agricultural purposes threatens the natural habitat of many unique animal and plant species; the Great Barrier Reef off the northeast coast, the largest coral reef in the world, is threatened by increased shipping and its popularity as a tourist site; limited natural fresh water resources
Or that,

Tasmania is one of the world's major suppliers of licit opiate products; government maintains strict controls over areas of opium poppy cultivation and output of poppy straw concentrate

lol...I could tell you that...

But you'd probably prefer to hear about the beautiful beaches and the fantastic 'bird watching' available on said beaches. Coupled with some of the most exotic rainforests in the world...not to mention arid desert landscapes filled with life and colour.

Oh yeah...and don't forget the awesome people who live here.

And large crocs..

Pricked up your interest, did it?

isn't a pigeon's beak pretty sharp? couldn't it just pierce right through that flimsy skin 'throat'. now that would fix that pelican's ass.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aliantha So if you ate the pelican would it be pigeon flavoured? That'd certainly be better economy if it did.

Snake regurgitates baby hippo (tapir?)

Oh yeah, I watched that today.....friggen gross!!!!! I think it was a tapir

I'm so having nitemares tonite.

That poor snake! I assume it was encouraged to give it up becaue it was in danger in that location?

Bless.

I hope they're friends.