Who eats who
Feb. 16th, 2010 12:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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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
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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.
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Date: 2010-02-16 04:39 pm (UTC)Forgot the converse
Date: 2010-02-16 09:45 pm (UTC)It's not a "food chain" so much as a "circle of lunch".
Re: Forgot the converse
Date: 2010-02-17 12:53 am (UTC)