Pelicam eating pigeon

it's part of their savage charm
they will try to eat right sized everything

meanwhile I'm searching 'pelicans with holes in their pouch', and it seems their pouch is as tender as it looks. So extra retarded birds are paying with their life I guess

Do they kill them while theyre in the pouch or do they swallow them alive?

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>>2361582
op pelican doesn't look like it's purposefully drowning the pigeon, just tries to flush the wiggly fucker down

>>2361553
It's uncommon enough that people tend to get surprised by it, but it's still common enough that there are multiple videos of pelicans eating pigeons (or some other small birds).

>>2361582
Birds don't have teeth, so the pelican can't bite its food to death before swallowing. From what I've seen, they attempt to swallow their prey while it's still alive and whole. But this usually takes some time and struggle because pigeons are fairly big and they keep fighting back.

>>2361553
I once saw a seagull casually pick a pigeon from its neck, drown it in water, take the guts out, and then drown it again because it wasn't completely dead.

Scavenger birds are scary.

>>2361553
Why is that pelican shaking like that?
Does he have Parkinsons?

There was an episode of Planet Earth or Life where they showed that a special type of Pelican was eating a population of birds in Africa somewhere because of over fishing by the human population. So this is them adapting I guess.

>>2361784
All the "pelican eats a pigeon" videos seem to have the pelican shaking like that. There are some videos where they shake while trying to swallow fish too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S02ykBo7PY0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6BZ_wNx8nw
Maybe they're trying to shake their food into another position so that it's easier to swallow? I'm not sure.