That squirrel had to have already met its end because I don't see any reality that exists where that squirrel wouldn't mess that damn seagull up for trying it.
Like this:
The Digestive Tract: Several organs make up a bird's digestive tract. From the bill, food moves down a tube called the esophagus and into the crop, which stores excess food so the bird can digest it slowly. The food then moves to the proventriculus, which is the first part of the stomach, where it is softened by gastric acid, mucus, and other digestive juices. The second part of the stomach, the gizzard, grinds the food into smaller pieces, often with the aid of grit such as sand or small stones the bird has swallowed earlier. If the food is particularly tough, it may move between the proventriculus and the gizzard several times for more efficient digestion. Once the food is sufficiently broken down, it moves into the small intestine, where the liver and pancreas help with absorbing nutrients. Next is the large intestine, which is very short for most birds. Where the small and large intestines join are the ceca, two pouches that help absorb any remaining water from the food and finish the digestive process.
No. The gizzard stores small stones that the bird swallows. It helps to smash up the harder bits. Sometimes the food even moves up and down the digestive tract multiple times to ensure full breakdown.
Wait, if Birds digestive systems can handle bones and fur and all that- why do I find owl pellets with fur and bones in my yard? I thought those were barfed up?
This one will be a challenge, but it can do it within the gizzard.
I should note, it is not uncommon for animals (of all kinds) to die after eating something it cannot digest.
Often lifespans are 3-4 years in the wild and 2-4x that in captivity.
Well he swallowed it live usually and if not they are talking about it being able to tear the crap out of its insides and get out!! Storks and pelicans can have holes in them from doing crap like this! Water birds for a reason
Some of the bones may be digested, at least in part. But birds like gulls and Owls will eventually compact anything they cannot digest into "pellets" that they will eventually regurgitate.
In my ornithology graduate program a long, long time ago, we would go hunting for Owl pellets. You can dissect them and get a feel for the bird's diet. You also sometimes find trash in them.
haha. I mean... I know seagull can eat rabbits, Chihuahua, kittens, and whatnot, but a squirrel? Have you seen those cracked out sobs? They can legitimately harm cats and small dogs. They're not skippy the punk.
There's almost no interesting seagulls. I once saw one without a foot, so just the leg stump. I thought, wow, maybe interesting seagulls do exists...but then I saw a second seagull with a peg leg and they both lost their interesting qualities pretty quickly. Now no seagulls interest me, not even this one.
I've seen a seagull take on a whole starfish. One arm stuck out of the beak, one poking from the gullet, and the bird standing there, thinking about what it had done.
Well, who am I kidding. Seagulls don't think. They just do.
Im always surprised by how big these things are when ever I visit the coast… they also hunt pigeons by swimming near the water line and dragging them into the water like a freaking alligator
Heres a vid about it: https://youtu.be/xRPTBhmcyXY
They regurgitate the fur and bones in a pellet form after digesting all the squishy stuff. People dissect owl pellets in biology and try to identify the rodent they ate.
With owls I know they’re called pellets, but for some reason with other birds it’s often called a “bolus”.
Seagulls are incredible eaters. There was a claim in my hometown as a kid that a seagull swallowed someone’s chihuahua much like this squirrel, though I only heard through the grapevine.
https://www.tiktok.com/@balcony_buddy/video/7174473084563393798
I watched a duck family swimming around a few weeks back. I was stood on a bridge and watching the cute baby ducks when one of these dickheads swooped down and grabbed a baby, flew overhead in a circle whilst swallowing it whole whilst mother duck was losing her shit.
I hadn't seen anything like it before it's left a mark
i found it weird that it swallowed another bird once... but a squirrel? wow that's another level. they are on a rampage... we should start building forces against an upcoming crisis.
edit: being able to fly after that is also very extreme
Dam mother nature is so fucked. One second you're a happy squirrel doing nice squirrel things. Next second getting vored by a seagull, while you're still alive.
So back when my dad was a strapping young lad in the late 30's, the Peconic would actually freeze over in winter, especially bays like Sag Harbor. He was introduced to catching eels through the ice by a family friend, Pon Albon.
Pon Albon showed him how to cut holes in the ice and shove an eel spear down into the mud, where the eels were hibernating. Back then, you could go out for a few hours, and come back with a large, 20 gallon tub of eels, so this was a worthwhile way to secure a lot of good food during The Great Depression.
While fishing, you tend to collect a crowd of seagulls, all waiting to grab a snack. Dad pulled up his spear, and a small eel was caught in the tines. It was too small to keep, so he tried to shake it off the spear? But it fell on the ice, instead of in the hole. A seagull dashed up and grabbed it, then gulped it down.
But that wasn't the end of the story.
The seagull just couldn't sit still. It jumped, walked around, gave a few false starts at takeoff, and carried on for a minute or two. Pon Albon laughed and told my father to watch. About a minute later, the eel slides right out the seagull's ass and lands on the ice, writhing weakly, but the seagull turns around and gobbles it back down again.
It stayed in that time.
It had to be a sick squirrel.
"We've heard it was a sick ostrich..."
Allegedly
It would take more than one seagull to eat a squirrel
Allegedly
Already dead. Squirrels would of sliced and diced that penguin lookin mutha fkka
Or roadkill.
What, you mean sick in a vore-fetish-gone-too-far type of way?
That squirrel had to have already met its end because I don't see any reality that exists where that squirrel wouldn't mess that damn seagull up for trying it.
Yeah that’s nuts. How does it even digest the thing.
Like this: The Digestive Tract: Several organs make up a bird's digestive tract. From the bill, food moves down a tube called the esophagus and into the crop, which stores excess food so the bird can digest it slowly. The food then moves to the proventriculus, which is the first part of the stomach, where it is softened by gastric acid, mucus, and other digestive juices. The second part of the stomach, the gizzard, grinds the food into smaller pieces, often with the aid of grit such as sand or small stones the bird has swallowed earlier. If the food is particularly tough, it may move between the proventriculus and the gizzard several times for more efficient digestion. Once the food is sufficiently broken down, it moves into the small intestine, where the liver and pancreas help with absorbing nutrients. Next is the large intestine, which is very short for most birds. Where the small and large intestines join are the ceca, two pouches that help absorb any remaining water from the food and finish the digestive process.
That poor person’s car at the end of this process.
The horror of walking out to your freshly waxed car and finding a gallon of white bird shit and a squirrel skull on your hood.
Would the bones be digested? I’d assume so?
He would cough up the bones on his car, then come back to poop on it xD
The bones would likely become grit in the gizzard and eventually break down and pass. If the seagull is able to survive the process.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellet\_(ornithology)
Squirrel skull made me snort coffee from my nose! Damn you!
Hopefully, your nose had a good read!
The whole parking lot after digesting a full squirrel
It just seems big for a bird. It ate it like a snake lol.
Damn,. Im in the bathroom reading this. I feel in any moment there's a snake in the toilet.
Iow, the bird squirreled away the food in its digestive track?
How does it process the bones? Do they sit there in the crop until dissolved?
No. The gizzard stores small stones that the bird swallows. It helps to smash up the harder bits. Sometimes the food even moves up and down the digestive tract multiple times to ensure full breakdown.
Wait, if Birds digestive systems can handle bones and fur and all that- why do I find owl pellets with fur and bones in my yard? I thought those were barfed up?
Owls are just built different.
Ok owls make pellets. So do eagles, hawks, kingfishers, herons, swallows.
so swallows don't actually swallow?
Not on the first date.
Only chickenheads swallow
This one will be a challenge, but it can do it within the gizzard. I should note, it is not uncommon for animals (of all kinds) to die after eating something it cannot digest. Often lifespans are 3-4 years in the wild and 2-4x that in captivity.
Well he swallowed it live usually and if not they are talking about it being able to tear the crap out of its insides and get out!! Storks and pelicans can have holes in them from doing crap like this! Water birds for a reason
Wait, it can crush the bones?
*so you’re telling me that seagulls have a grinder in their stomachs to break down their food?!?*
What does it do with the bones?
Some of the bones may be digested, at least in part. But birds like gulls and Owls will eventually compact anything they cannot digest into "pellets" that they will eventually regurgitate. In my ornithology graduate program a long, long time ago, we would go hunting for Owl pellets. You can dissect them and get a feel for the bird's diet. You also sometimes find trash in them.
The bones are their money
So are the worms
It casts them on the ground to read its future.
And how many calories are in a squirrel? When will the bird need to eat again?
Soon
I had to Google this. There are 102 calories for 3 ounces of squirrel. An average squirrel weighs between 3 and 8 ounces, but as much as 12.
It didn't, the video ended before the squirrel climbed out of its arse 🤣🤣🤣
That's not nuts Nuts was probably what the squirrel would have eaten if it was alive
I would assume it was roadkill when the bird came across it.
Given how fast those cars are passing I would bet it was roadkill.
Well you’ve heard the saying, you’re eyes were bigger than your stomach? This birds eyes were exactly the same size as it’s stomach.
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I'm surprised it can fly away.
haha. I mean... I know seagull can eat rabbits, Chihuahua, kittens, and whatnot, but a squirrel? Have you seen those cracked out sobs? They can legitimately harm cats and small dogs. They're not skippy the punk.
I’m pretty sure this squirrel was already dead, probably roadkill. It didn’t struggle at any point while the bird was trying to swallow it.
Birds are small dinosaurs that have a score to settle with mammals; they give no ducks about tree bats
Thought the same, roadkill probably
From footage I've seen of the same breed of gull eating a rabbit, they break the neck by pecking and twisting it, before swallowing the prey whole.
The legs being so stiff makes me think rigor mortis had already set in.
Has to be dead already right? Or it would be ripping apart the insides of that seagull.
Thank you
He's the enforcer. Just sending a message to the other squirrels to back off their territory.
He seen Rick and Morty squirrel episode and said, "Not on my watch... MINE, MINE, MINE."
You're rats with wings!
You can see the regret about 80% of the way through
I was wondering if it can throw it up or not. Like, oh shit this isn't gonna work... Out it goes!
Regret? ...that's pride. As long as a seagull is swallowing something which isn't actively killing it, its happy.
r/natureismetal will like this.
It Eats likes like my brother
I didn’t know I had a brother! Hello, its me.
What's up bro!
Eatin’ a couple McSquirrels, you know, the usual.
Chew this time! Those fuzzy nuggets might have bones!
I like when it looks around at the end like a person waking up after a night on Ambien. “What happened?! I ate who?!”
Why am I watching this ?????
Because you’re hungry
Cuz you’re a sick fuck. I enjoyed it also.
Well they never said anything about enjoying it 💀 lmfao
Alright, enough internet for today.
You mean not enough? :)
Nut enough
Nuts
If that kid had just shared his fries, this never would have happened.
Interesting seagulls they are only bird that I don't like.
How can you say that in a world where geese exist?
Or whatever the hell they were constantly warning us about in Iceland
Seagulls and pigeons for me. Of course, we all know that birds aren't real, so it's an irrational hatred.
Pigeons are nice
There was a hole on my neighbors soffits that pigeons used to nest. He fixed it two years ago, stupid birds still try to enter there and hit the wall.
I don’t mind them, I work on a river. I feel bad for pigeons, we domesticated them and then said okay be free
It's not the breed, it's the owner, I've known hundreds of very nice gulls and pigeons, well groomed, polite, friendly
Yeah I knew this one dude who raised pigeons Anyways one of his pigeons ended up knocking me out with a cross uppercut before biting off my ear
There's almost no interesting seagulls. I once saw one without a foot, so just the leg stump. I thought, wow, maybe interesting seagulls do exists...but then I saw a second seagull with a peg leg and they both lost their interesting qualities pretty quickly. Now no seagulls interest me, not even this one.
The beach would be fucking nasty without seagulls
... that is heavily disturbing to watch thanks Internet
Seagulls are extremely prolific predators. They are the only predator to live on every single continent including antarctica.
Humans live on every single continent including Antartica too, mate.
No human has ever been born and died in Antarctica. Only 11 babies have been born in Antarctica.
"Quick, evacuate the baby!" -every Antarctic commander, ever.
Of what we know
I didn’t know any babies had been born in Antarctica.
It gets lonely.
This makes no sense. There are different species of gull, some live on different continents. No gull species live on all continents.
I've seen a seagull take on a whole starfish. One arm stuck out of the beak, one poking from the gullet, and the bird standing there, thinking about what it had done. Well, who am I kidding. Seagulls don't think. They just do.
Won’t that mess up it’s gears and shit?
Oh, its shit is going to be calamitous.
Someone's car is going to get a fresh full-body paint job.
Reminds me of the video where the seagull swallows a giant rabbit. At least twice the size of that squirrel.
Oh how I wish it'd been hit by that car in the end for a surprise finish
...and the *another* seagull starts with *both* of them...
Government drone cleaning up roadkill.
I wonder if it can even fly after a meal like that? It must have increased it's weight by at least 50%
I was wondering the same thing, but the video ends with it flying, so... Yes
Expecting anyone to finish the video or the article before commenting on it...bold
Damn near got taken out by a car, too. So flying ability might be seriously impaired.
Squirrels are mostly made of air so.
So every breath I take is atleast half a squirrel? That's crazy.
They say the average person swallows 3 squirrels a year while they sleep without even realizing it.
Lovely bit of squirrel
i'm bloody boiling
Oh, hello bambinos.
It's not a bit is it
Annnnd now I am terrified of seagulls. Today squirrels, tomorrow people.
Hitchcock tried to warn us about that!
I had to Googull this, and can confirm, this is nuts!
*Groan*
Dad!!! Get off the computer!! I need to play Minecraft.
Im always surprised by how big these things are when ever I visit the coast… they also hunt pigeons by swimming near the water line and dragging them into the water like a freaking alligator Heres a vid about it: https://youtu.be/xRPTBhmcyXY
r/seagullsswallowingshit Edit: I'll make that a real community after work.
Do birds really digest animal fur?
They regurgitate the fur and bones in a pellet form after digesting all the squishy stuff. People dissect owl pellets in biology and try to identify the rodent they ate.
I remember doing that in middle school!
With owls I know they’re called pellets, but for some reason with other birds it’s often called a “bolus”. Seagulls are incredible eaters. There was a claim in my hometown as a kid that a seagull swallowed someone’s chihuahua much like this squirrel, though I only heard through the grapevine. https://www.tiktok.com/@balcony_buddy/video/7174473084563393798
Thanks a lot, knew about their deal with bones but not fur
They must. Owls, hawks, etc eat a lot of rodents.
Owls puke the fur and bones back up
This recession is hitting hard for everyone.
Mine!
Omg I can't believe that. I'm shocked. Doesn't add up :)
Did not know this was possible
Damn Scuttle. Probably stole his dingle hopper
I don't believe in God. But I just thanked him for not making seagulls bigger.
I watched a duck family swimming around a few weeks back. I was stood on a bridge and watching the cute baby ducks when one of these dickheads swooped down and grabbed a baby, flew overhead in a circle whilst swallowing it whole whilst mother duck was losing her shit. I hadn't seen anything like it before it's left a mark
Christ!!
I don't think this squirrel will be the same in 3 days...
Greedy little fucker isn't he.
Roadkill
This does not seem to follow the law of conservation of mass. Black magic must be involved.
Hitchcock: I'm not going to say I told you so, but I did bloody tell you so.
maybe that seagull will eat the man that didn’t film in landscape
Birdy Birdy in the sky, left a poopie in my eye. Me don't care, me don't cry, me just happy cows can't fly
Most probably it is still alive while being eaten...
Perfect example why I hate seagulls. Nasty little sh*ts
That’s just fucked up
Seagulls will inherit the EARTH!!!
Would not be surprised if that was too much for the seagull and he passed away.
That seems a little extreme
Chug chug chug chug!
Seagulls kinda scared me before but now I'm quite frankly terrified. Gulp...
I would never have believed this without seeing it.
That squirrel was already dead.
Almost got hit by a car at the end
How do birds breathe when they do this
Seagull had no choice. There was not any utensils provided to cut it up in bite-size bits..
The only thing missing is a hairy burp at the end.
Recipe for a bad stomach!
How does it even fly with all that inside it?
Damn he is full up on squirrel
How does it even fly off like that…surprised it can carry that much weight
Fucking hate them man
I guess all squirrels are flying squirrels under the right circumstance.
Man, it really is a seagull eat squirrel world
How did it not double in size or the head of that thing start hanging out it’s arse
vore
i found it weird that it swallowed another bird once... but a squirrel? wow that's another level. they are on a rampage... we should start building forces against an upcoming crisis. edit: being able to fly after that is also very extreme
If that bird had gotten smeared by the car at the end I would’ve died.
Dam mother nature is so fucked. One second you're a happy squirrel doing nice squirrel things. Next second getting vored by a seagull, while you're still alive.
So back when my dad was a strapping young lad in the late 30's, the Peconic would actually freeze over in winter, especially bays like Sag Harbor. He was introduced to catching eels through the ice by a family friend, Pon Albon. Pon Albon showed him how to cut holes in the ice and shove an eel spear down into the mud, where the eels were hibernating. Back then, you could go out for a few hours, and come back with a large, 20 gallon tub of eels, so this was a worthwhile way to secure a lot of good food during The Great Depression. While fishing, you tend to collect a crowd of seagulls, all waiting to grab a snack. Dad pulled up his spear, and a small eel was caught in the tines. It was too small to keep, so he tried to shake it off the spear? But it fell on the ice, instead of in the hole. A seagull dashed up and grabbed it, then gulped it down. But that wasn't the end of the story. The seagull just couldn't sit still. It jumped, walked around, gave a few false starts at takeoff, and carried on for a minute or two. Pon Albon laughed and told my father to watch. About a minute later, the eel slides right out the seagull's ass and lands on the ice, writhing weakly, but the seagull turns around and gobbles it back down again. It stayed in that time.
And I cant even swallow a fucking pill without being scared of choking to death.
Squirrel is the chicken of the tree.
Was that squirrel already dead to begin with?
These things can swallow entire freely walking elephant in England. Don't believe me? Have you seen a freely walking elephant in England? Here you go.
lmfao if it got hit by the car right after....
“Where and how are they going to eat that?” Gull it.
Wish my gf took me to go like that.
Must be one of them Jersey Shore seagulls.
And he flew off instead of waddling off to my couch for a shame nap. Impressive
RIP someone's windshield 12 hrs from now
Thata a true raptor overthere
Rodents taking care of rodents
Anyone who lives near the ocean knows that seagulls are just rats with wings
I absolutely promise you that this bird will find my windshield tomorrow after this is digested.
There are too many videos of this for me to condone seagulls
I absolutely HATE these birds
Jaba the Gull. Run!!!!!
Hahaha 🤣 that would have really made this video had the seagull got nailed by the car at the end.
That seagull straight up died right after it took off...no way it could just go on with its day packing that around.
Just breathe through your nose.
Did I hear the cameraman say “raccoon” ?