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I wouldn’t worry to much about pelicans. Fun fact - pelicans try to eat people sometimes. They basically try to eat every animal, because they have no sense of scale for their food they can swallow. And they don’t risk much by trying - most large animals have the same incredulous reaction we do

They are not very bright birds nor very quick ones. They are also not very agile. And as a bird, they have hollow bones and you could kill them with a solid fist to the chest… I once saw the aftermath of two shin high dogs tearing one apart. On a small balcony. There was blood everywhere… The dogs were covered in it, completely uninjured and very pleased with themselves

I wouldn’t worry, even if they have the sharp bits that could injure you, they lack the instincts to use them properly

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tilefan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
there’s a video out there of one trying to eat a duck

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- Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  And a capybara
  
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  - Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    And a pigeon. It succeeds in that one.
    
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    tilefan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    there’s one of a Holstein cow successfully eating baby chickens.
    
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  - marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    There aren’t many videos out there of creatures trying to eat a capybara.
    
    It takes some ferocious kind of predator to even attempt it.
    
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    tilefan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    capybara get eaten in the wild all the time. average lifespan of a wild one is 4 years, and the primary cause of death is predation. they can live 10 years in captivity
    
    their main form of defense is reproducing about as quickly as rabbits. they are sometimes competition for grazing land, but South Americans usually farm them if they’re a pest, rather than exterminating them, as they are very good meat animals. the Catholic Church classifies them as fish, so the more Catholic of community is, the more of them they’re eating (Catholics aren’t allowed to eat meat on friday, and somebody along the way decided fish weren’t meat. it wasn’t unusual to write the Vatican with a description vague enough to get something declared a fish; both the capybara and beaver were classified as fish because the people submitting the request just emphasized the amount of their lives they spend in the water), and there’s a medicinal grease produced from their skin that they use like petroleum jelly.
    
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- dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I need to find this.
  
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Steve@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
May I subscribe to Pelican Facts?

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