3724 x 2979 px | 31,5 x 25,2 cm | 12,4 x 9,9 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
19 janvier 2016
Lieu:
Boulders Beach, Cape Town, South Africa
Informations supplémentaires:
The Cape Gull (or Kelp gull) is an omnivore like most Larus gulls, and they will scavenge as well as seek suitable small prey. Cape gulls have been observed feeding whales since at least 1996. The Cape gull uses its powerful beak to peck down centimetres into the skin and blubber, often leaving the whales with large open sores, some of which have been observed to be half a meter in diameter. This predatory behavior has been documented in Argentinian waters, and continues today. At rocky sites along the southern African coast, such as at Boulders Beach in Cape Town, Cape gulls (Larus dominicanus vetula) can be seen picking up shellfish and repeatedly flying up several meters and dropping them onto the rocks below in order to break them open. Here, a Cape Gull is breaking open a Penguin egg snatched from a nest.
