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    Would seagulls eat a human?

    Discussion in 'Research' started by The inquisitive writer, Oct 20, 2021.

    Not like Alfred Hitchcock or anything. But I know that gulls—herring gulls in particular— will eat carrion if they find it. My question is, would gulls pick at a human corpse if one washed up on a beach somewhere?
     
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    Seagulls will eat anything.

    And so will most birds. A robin would happily pick at a corpse if it was lying there.
     
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    Yes.

    See the end of The Lighthouse for more details.
     
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    For a carrion eater, if it doesn't kill you when it fights back, it's food.
     
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    Haha! Yep. I couldn't remember where I saw this explicitly, but that was it.

    "Yer fond of me lobster, ain't ye?"
     
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    Hark Triton, hark! Bellow, bid our father the Sea King rise from the depths full foul in his fury! Black waves teeming with salt foam to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye, engorging your organs till ye turn blue and bloated with bilge and brine and can scream no more - only when he, crowned in cockle shells with slitherin' tentacle tail and steaming beard take up his fell be-finned arm, his coral-tine trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest and plunges right through yer gullet, bursting ye - a bulging bladder no more, but a blasted bloody film now and nothing for the harpies and the souls of dead sailors to peck and claw and feed upon only to be lapped up and swallowed by the infinite waters of the Dread Emperor himself - forgotten to any man, to any time, forgotten to any god or devil, forgotten even to the sea, for any stuff or part of Winslow, even any scantling of your soul is Winslow no more, but is now itself the sea!
     
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    I have it on my watchlist, might actually get around to watching it tonight.
     

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