When watching popular science programs such as "Animal World", perhaps many careful partners can find whales with scars on their bodies, a phenomenon that has caused scientists to be strongly curious, such a huge whale, what animal can hurt them? Even more than 99 percent of whales have similar scars. Later, through research comparisons, scientists found that these injuries seemed to come from an inconspicuous little guy in the sky, a seagull.
Can you imagine? Beautiful, white seagulls, which we have never associated with "hunters", are such a humble little guy who can hurt huge whales and even kill them. As early as the 70s of the last century, someone discovered the phenomenon of seagulls attacking whales, and this ability seems to be innate, flocks of seagulls will chase whales on the sea, once the whales will expose their bodies to the surface of the sea to breathe, flocks of seagulls will swoop down and launch a fierce attack on the whales.
Seagulls prefer the backs of female or juvenile whales, where skin and fat are favorites of seagulls, and you may think how a giant whale can withstand such an attack from seagulls. In fact, although the wounds left by seagulls on whales cannot be directly fatal, the broken skin can easily lead to dehydration or even infection, body temperature imbalance, etc., and bad luck whales may be chased by seagulls and have been pecking. In this way, although the seagull could not kill the whale directly, it indirectly killed the behemoth. Whales therefore have to learn to breathe underwater.
It is hard to imagine that a small seagull can actually kill a whale, we often say that playing a pig and eating a tiger, but we never thought that a kind and beautiful seagull can easily kill a huge whale, which is the secret of the vast world that we have not yet understood thoroughly.