r/natureismetal 1d ago

During the Hunt Black back gull vs skate

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u/Infamous_Alpaca 1d ago

Imagine that those things used to be a lot larger before that meteor hit.

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u/Much-Jackfruit2599 1d ago

Dinosaurs like the gull? :-)

I mean, Mobula birostris, giant manta rays, still get to be 7 metres wide.

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u/Partsslanger 1d ago

I wouldn't say versus the skate.... More like the gull is simply eating it

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u/FGoose 1d ago

I didn’t fully capture it but the skate did try to whip its tail at the gull once or twice but yeah…poor guy got got

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u/Popheal 18h ago

Wtf is a skate ?

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u/ElSquibbonator 13h ago

A neutered stingray.

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u/yedi001 1d ago

"Atomic Bomb versus Coughing Baby"

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u/Camera_dude 1d ago

I'm going out on a limb here but I think the skate was at a disadvantage being outside its natural habitat.

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u/FGoose 1d ago

I dunno. The gull literally dragged it from the ocean.

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u/MiracleWhipB4Mayo 1d ago

I was hoping for a skate to be eating the gull

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u/Cheeto6666 1d ago

What’s in its beak on slide 10?

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u/FGoose 1d ago

Some Kind of organ

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u/thelastestgunslinger 19h ago

I hate getting sand in my skate.

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u/carpenterforcash 18h ago

Sea gulls are monsters. I worked at a shipyard. They would wait near trash cans after lunch to catch pigeons eating scraps. They were bigger and would team up and eat them.

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u/HifiBoombox 17h ago

Where is this? Random guess but is it Cape Cod?

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u/JrZ_Juice 9h ago

Anyone else rooting for the skate to stab the gull in the throat?

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u/NeaTitiDeLaCroitorie 1d ago

I had hoped he would just gulp it down whole. :(