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

[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)

[ndgmtlcd.livejournal.com]

In the wild rats eat baby mice mostly. They are easier prey than adult mice. Wild rats will also eat the young of other field rodents such as voles.

My hooded rats have always been large enough and strong enough to kill and eat full grown mice but I'm always careful when I let them out of their cages for exercice, so that they never come into contact with wild animals and their parasites. My pet rats are clean! Delousing them means costly vet fees and pharmaceuticals.