Who eats who

[maradydd]

While talking with enochsmiles earlier today, the question came up of what baby pelicans sound like, so I went to YouTube to find out. (If you're curious, you can listen to one here.) I was mildly horrified to see that one of the related videos was of a pelican eating ducklings, and even more surprised to see that one of the videos listed as related to that video was of a lion at the San Francisco Zoo apparently eating a cat.

Intrigued by the notion of larger animals eating their smaller relatives, I executed the following Google searches, reproduced here for posterity:

"pelican eats duck": 12,200 results
"lion eats cat": 43,600 results
"tiger eats cat": 1 result
"wolf eats dog": 1920 results
"chimpanzee eats monkey": 5 results
"capybara eats rat": 0 results

Got any more pairs? Share 'em in the comments and share the pain.

Comments

[vatine]

"capybara eats guinea pig": 0

Mostly becaue Caviidae may be rodents, but so are beavers.

[ab3nd.livejournal.com]

Some friends and I were recently talking about advertising animals that are the animal that the food they are advertising is made out of, like the mascot of LJ's BBQ in Providence (http://www.ljsbbq.com/). I did a few searches to see how prevalent this kind of thing is.

"pig eats pig": 8,260
"cow eats cow": 23,000
"chicken eats chicken":9

And of course,

"dog eats dog": 23,500

I should whip up a quick script to generate a heat map of, say, which animals of the Chinese zodiac eat each other, but I'm a bit busy today.

[neoliminal.livejournal.com]

"human eats fly": 3,340,000
"human eats spider": 2,340,000
blah blah

I guess she'll die.

[aethera21.livejournal.com]

Since this is related to enoch, let's not forget "human eats moth" -0. Removing the quotes, I see 11,400,000 results, and a few in the top ten were actually about people eating moths.

[ben.livejournal.com]

snake eats snake

barracuda eats fish

scorpion eats (other arthropod)

[nibor.livejournal.com]

"Dingo eats baby": 45,000

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

'No results found for "walrus eats bucket"'

(Not that this is, you know, unexpected, but I had to ask. :) )

[rjgrady.livejournal.com]

Chimpanzees often hunt and eat baboons.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Rats eat mice pretty often and snakes eat other snakes.

But probably the most common is fish eating other fish. :) (This is mostly because our brains don't break fish down into groups in quite the same way we do for mammals)

[akumadaimyo.livejournal.com]

What about monkeys eating people? Or vice versa?

[akumadaimyo.livejournal.com]

2,790,000 for Monkey eats person

[barbarienne.livejournal.com]

Ya know, some human populations eat our fellow simians. I imagine an anthropologist somewhere has video of a monkey-eating feast.