Snatch Thief Caught On Camera

[Wildfire]

13:15 GMT, 15 July 2012 | The Daily Mail

This is the moment a bullish seagull robbed a feathered ‘friend’ of its hard-earned dinner by snatching
the food straight from its beak.

The gull dwarfed a helpless puffin and deprived its victim of the sand eels it had been carrying in its beak.

Returning from a hunting trip, the puffin became vulnerable after landing too far from its burrow, giving the
gull the perfect opportunity to pounce.

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The puffin was en route to its burrow to take the meal back for its chicks.

Left with just a single sand eel following the confrontation, the dejected bird flew off once more, presumably
to go and find some more food.

The amazing incident was captured by Jan Hannaford on Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire, Wales.

 

[chorut]

This happens everywhere in nature. I don't understand what is so amazing about this incident. It's as if the photographer
has never seen such a thing happening before. If so, then he's really naive and wet between his ears.

Nothing is new under the sun. Jan Hannaford is trying to dramatize it, as if it's some interesting new discovery.

 

[Leongsam]

The Chinese behave in exactly the same way.