seagulls

[venetia]

why do seagulls attack seagulls with young?

[wildwood]

Mmm... Not sure that seagulls attack other ones just because they have young. The ones with young are more than likely nervous and so are easier bullied. Despite gulls being gregarious, they are not very nice to each other and in reality are selfish aggressive sods.

[andy-hughes]

Like a lot of species, seagulls play by the 'survival of the fittest' rule.

If food is in short supply, only the birds who can bully and harrass others away from the food source will eat. This forms natural selection as the weaker birds will not survive, leaving the stronger birds to breed and pass on their stronger gene strains to future generations.

[carsonking]

i want to know why we can't shoot them, they are a pain in the arse. It used to be only at the seaside but now they are coming inland because of the lack of food and they are killing off our birds because they are so bl00dy gregarious. lets lose a couple of hundred thousand of them, it will do everyone else a favour.

[wildwood]

carsonking, the gulls are probably thinking something along the same lines, as in "why can't we get rid of these pesky humans, we were here first" and have thus developed an uncanny ability to aim their voiding to hit someone on the shoulder from great hight.

[carsonking]

Yeh but they don't have guns, so lets get in there first.