When it comes to whales, everyone should be familiar with them, they are the largest mammals in the ocean and even on the earth. With an adult whale of more than 20 meters in length and an average weight of more than 150 tons, it can be called a true ocean overlord.
Speaking of seagulls, many people should not be strangers, friends who have been to the beach should have seen it with their own eyes, but don't be deceived by the cute appearance of seagulls, they usually eat shrimp and crabs, and also eat human food garbage, but in fact, seagulls are very miscellaneous, they also eat starfish sea urchins, cats, mice, rabbits and other birds, no wonder seagulls are called pirates.
So whales and gulls meet together, or let them PK, who will win? The answer is definitely unexpected.
It turned out that the winner was actually a seagull! Why is this so, the phenomenon of seagulls attacking whales was discovered in the 1970s, but they were not born to attack whales. Around the 1970s, seagulls stumbled upon the skin and fat on their backs that were delicious, and whales tragically became a delicacy on the seagulls' menu. Seagulls would fall from high above on the whale's back when the whale was breathing, and the seagulls spread this delicacy widely among their kind, and once the whale surfaced, the seagulls attacked in groups.
Many whales, under the attack of seagulls, have learned to hide most of their bodies under the surface of the sea when breathing, but some juvenile whales have not yet learned this lesson. And even if whales hide their bodies underwater, seagulls can eat their flesh. Because the seagulls tighten their bodies together from high in the air when they are preying, and then fall into the water like cannonballs for several meters, hundreds of seagulls fall from the sky like cannonballs, and then fiercely pierce the back of the whale with their mouths. It hurts to think about it...
According to oceanographers, about 99 percent of whales have some degree of scars on their backs, all from seagulls. Don't think that being bitten by a seagull is nothing, it's like being bitten by a mosquito to a whale? No, once the whale's skin is too badly damaged, the whale will become dehydrated and unable to regulate its body temperature, and the whale will slowly die and become food for more marine animals.
It seems that in nature, a huge volume does not mean standing at the top of the food chain. Poor whales eat only plankton and shrimp rice, and are bullied like this by seagulls. So the question is, is the elephant, a land animal of the same size, afraid of rats?