The gull — curse of the beach - cover nosher , parking - circumstances plague — is nobody ’s favorite . bird guide will tell you that seagulls have no lifelike enemies , which is mostly true . But once in a while , somebody ’s had enough .
1. A Manipulative Dolphin
At Mississippi ’s Institute for Marine Mammal Studies , dolphins are trained to help keep their own pools clean by bringing any litter they encounter to a trainer . For each composition of garbage a mahimahi render , he or she gets a Pisces . One day , a seagull shoot down in Kelly the dolphin ’s puddle . She obediently brought it to her trainer , who reward her with extra Pisces .
If this was some other brute , the story might have end there . But Kelly had a gift for math — and manipulation . She realized that chump were worth more than trash , and that one gull was worth more than one fish . She start fishing for seagull , using her own Pisces the Fishes as bait and cash in in each meter . The strategy was so effective that she eventually taught it to her kid .
Amazingly , Kelly is n’t the only sportfishing cetacean mammal . CaptiveorcasinSan DiegoandOntariohave independently figured it out , although they mostly just deplete the boo .
2. Schoolchildren
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To be clean , the seagulls started this one . In 2010 , theDaily Mailreported that a colony of more than 90 gulls hadtaken over a British schoolyard . The razz were a extra menace at lunchtime , dive - bombardment the student and stock off their sandwiches like feathered bullies . Not to be intimidated , the schoolhouse decision maker hire a police squad of soldier of fortune : twoHarris ’s hawksand a falcon . bang - birds Jasper , Hope , and Monty began patrol the skies above the school twice a twenty-four hours . Before long , they ’d reclaimed the airspace , and sandwich were safe again .
3. Weasels
Two things dress weasel apart from other creature . First , they will assault anything that moves . Second , because their metamorphosis are so tight , they ’re always , always hungry . The combination of these gene leads tosome incredible fight . Even the diminutive weasel will launch themselves at animals 10 times their sizing — and sometimes , those animals have wings .
weasel are well known for prowling among seagull nests , snatch egg and chicks where they can . And sometimes ( frequently ) , they bite off a little more than they can chew . It ’s not known who struck first inthis video : it might have been the seagull . It could , just as easily , have been the weasel . SPOILER alarm : The weasel lose this one . They may be tenacious , but they are n’t aquatic .
4. The Police
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File it under " We ’ll Probably Regret This Later For Some Reason " : In 2012 , Argentinean constabulary were give orders tostart shooting at gull . The gull in question had start attackingsouthern right whales . Each time the whales rose to breathe , the gulls swooped in and began pecking at their pulp , create subject wounds . The whale began clip their visits to the airfoil , rising just enough to pass off before diving again ; their Modern swimming patterns were separating female parent from calves . Over 100 calves died that twelvemonth , and the gull before long found themselves on the Most Wanted inclination . About 140 sea gull were killed in the initial reject , but it did n’t make much departure : As of 2013 , thesiege carry on .
5. The Color Red
A few years ago , houses in the Scots seaboard town of Arbroath were plagued by seagulls . They perched on the rooftop and rummage through garbage bank identification number , creating a ruckus and a huge jam . One night , Ian Watson threw out the stiff of his daughter ’s birthday cake , sure the gull would have their style with it — but they did n’t . They would n’t allude it .
The cake was frosted inbright red icing(Watson ’s daughter is a Manchester United booster ) , and he wonder if the vivacious color was somehow keeping the birds at bay . He began experiment with birdfeeders and platform in various hues . simoleons crumbs left on black chopine vanished forthwith . Food on the red feeders rest untouched . The experiment expanded , but the event were the same : sea gull avoid the color red . Watson ’s finding move the township council , which decided to literally paint parts of the town red .
And then there wasthis science bonny projectby 6th - grader Sydney M. Kamerman , which found that seagulls " seemed frightened " by red towels , even those covered with food . freehanded Science has yet to weigh in on this one , but the initial determination seem pretty compelling .
6. and 7. Octopus and Tuna
Being a seafowl is wild business . Sometimes you plunge and you get a mouthful of whale . Other times , ocean aliveness fuck off a mouthful of you . showing A : the devilfish . On more than one affair , people at the beach have witnessed an octopus wrestling anddevouring a seagull . Several octopus mintage number into shallow water to feed , and can even take the air on dry body politic . They ’re nimble , clever , andcan fell into their environment . The dame — loud , brazen , and above all , singular — doesn’t stick out a hazard .
Exhibit B : the tuna . Seagulls like eating Pisces the Fishes . So do Atlantic horse mackerel tunny . They can pass on 12 feet long and weigh more than a ton , which crap them very attractive to sport fisherman . To attract their prey , the big fish hunters throw little fish into the water . Sometimes , the sea gull get to the bait first . Sometimes , as evidenced here , the tuna gets to the sea gull first .
