Death from below

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   Glen Davidson

   30 April 2012 at 9:50 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   What were the odds that the bird would be gulled?

   Glen Davidson

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   Brownian

   30 April 2012 at 9:52 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Is this a menu thing now? Seagull-stuffed octopus? Soctopus, like turducken? Why the hell is turducken in my autocorrect list?

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   johnscanlon

   30 April 2012 at 10:06 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Turducken?

   Ken Ham stuffed into a duck, stuffed into a turd?

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   Brownian

   30 April 2012 at 10:23 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I know, gross right?

   Apparently it’s some sort of a thing, though.

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   Rev. BigDumbChimp

   30 April 2012 at 10:30 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Ken Ham stuffed into a duck, stuffed into a turd?

   The only things Ken Ham likes to be stuff in are piglets.

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   Caine, Fleur du mal, OM

   30 April 2012 at 10:32 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Fantastic shots. I will forever be jealous.

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   Trebuchet

   30 April 2012 at 11:02 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I’ve walked that breakwater. Must keep my eyes peeled next time.

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   neal

   30 April 2012 at 11:20 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   To commemorate witnessing and photographing this amazing event, Ginger, Ken and Lou went out for a calamari lunch.

   Eww.

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   David Utidjian

   30 April 2012 at 11:38 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   So… would the octopus eat the gull whole? Feathers and all? or just peck away at the bird with its little beak?

   Either way it must be a good catch for the octopus (lots of protein) until the all the other opportunists show up.

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    Francisco Bacopa

    30 April 2012 at 2:21 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    I think it’s a juvenile. Fledged and flying, but not yet mature. I don’t know about every species of gull, but the three that live around here have more brown on their wings when they are young. Adults have almost pure white wings.

    So maybe this was a youngster. Maybe most seagulls figure out how to not get eaten by an octopus as they grow up.

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    pedantik

    30 April 2012 at 4:01 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Alas, I had hoped that this was actually a gull evolving into an octopus in front of a camera. Next you’ll be telling us there is no crocoduck either.

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    stubby

    30 April 2012 at 6:03 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    “To commemorate witnessing and photographing this amazing event, Ginger, Ken and Lou went out for a calamari lunch.”

    It’s nice to read a story that has a happy ending.

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    Menyambal: Making sambal isn't exactly dragon magic.

    1 May 2012 at 2:25 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Thanks for posting this, PZ. I enjoyed the first round, and was hoping for follow-up. :)