"Between June and December, Southern right whales gather to breed in the waters off Peninsula Valdes in Argentina, and every year, thousands of tourists go out to watch them. Kelp gulls are watching too. As the whales surface for air, the birds land and rip pieces of skin and blubber form their backs, inflicting gaping wounds up to 20 centimetres long. The whales violently arch their backs to submerge whatever they can below the water, before hurriedly swimming away." - Mark H from Bookmarklet

"The first of these attacks was documented in 1972, and they have been getting worse. In 1974, just 1 per cent of whales had gull-inflicted wounds. By 2008, 77 per cent of them carried such injuries.It certainly doesn’t help that the gull population has exploded in the last 25 years, probably because human dumps and fisheries have provided them with a glut of food. The behaviour may also be spreading between the birds, with new individuals learning to peck the whales after their attention is directed to the blubbery buffets by their peers." - Mark H

Damn. - Derrick

Wild. - AJ Batac

this reminds me of this disturbing story Killer mice eating albatross population into extinction The number of chicks making it through to fledging has decreased rapidly and is now five times lower than it should be because introduced predatory mice are eating the chicks alive on Gough island http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go... - Halil