the result of overfishing?
Holy fucking shit, y'all. A pelican ate a pigeon in St. James Park last week. My mouth was literally a.g.a.p.e. while reading this damnable story.
posted by stella at 10:14 AM
All the snark that's fit to print.
or
A snap is ten dollars. Snark is for free.
posted by stella at 10:14 AM
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I felt this weirded out one day at the cabin in Wisconsin. It was fall. Chilly. There was a strong wind. A heron had been standing on the bank watching the hill that morning, and eventually wandered up next to the pumphouse. All morning he stayed there, stock still, while I sat in the little front room by the fire just watching this bird. I'd never seen herons leave the water. I'd never seen this one move about on our shore other than late at night. He normally stayed on the island during the day and walked our shore side between 1 and 3 a.m. when most everyone was asleep.
For two hours the heron stood still on the side of the pumphouse, a three-foot-high brick structure with plywood roof fashioned crudely from two panels. (The family motto is THIS 'L DO. We've had that sign up for like 70 years.)
Suddenly a chipmunk ran past the pumphouse, apparently not having noticed the heron, or perhaps having decided his stillness was a sign of having died.
No. He was waiting. He speared the chipmunk and flew off, all the while the little rodent squirmed. The beak had gone all the way through.
I was horrified. Nature is incredibly violent.
-cK
horrifying indeed! youch.
When I was eight I went to a pet store in the big city (Winnipeg) and I witnessed a murder, right at eye-level, in a glass terrarium. The Mommy gerbil was eating one of the hairless babies - I swear to you, I will never get that image out of my head. Guh.
I had two mice in the eighth grade that I'd bought for the obligatory annual science project. They seemed to get along well until I came in one day and saw not two but one-point-five mice. Partner A had turned cannibal on Partner B.
The next day, Partner A was dead in his terrarium, apparently of constipation.
Nature IS cruel, but seemingly also just.
y'all are really grossing me out. what next? cannibalized mice brushing teeth?
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