Not only monkeys can break hard shells, birds can too.
Watch this guy, as he knows that there is a juicy Sea Squirt inside that hard shell.
Post 1 will show you how the bird cracks the shell.
Post 2 will show you the sea squirts.
Both posts are in here.
A short walk on the beach delivered up these amazing Kelp Gull actions.
The shell of the seasquirt was baked hard in the morning sun at low tide and the bird had an innovative way to get at the meat inside the shell.
Come and see.
Right, there he goes and come watch how he breaks the hard shell.
Up at speed into the sky he went.
Carefully selecting his spot in the rocks in the shallows.
Boom, he dropped the shell down onto the rocks in the water.
Now what is innovative about this you may ask?
When the shell cracks the Sea Squirt realizes that it's an attack and it releases a stinking squirt of water. The sea water washes the stinking water away before the bird eats the Sea Squirt.
Post 2. Let's have a look at the Sea Squirts that the birds eat.
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This is what the juicy Sea Squirts look like and the fishermen find them as ideal bait to catch the big fish from the shore.
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Here you can see the bird picking up the Sea Squirt and the sand on the beach was covered by them. At high tide the sea will claim the sea squirts back. (My own photo)
Pyura stolonifera, commonly known in South Africa as "red bait" (or "rooiaas" in Afrikaans), is a sessile ascidian, or sea squirt, that lives in coastal waters attached to rocks or artificial structures. Sea squirts are named for their habit of squirting a stream of water from their exhalant siphons when touched at low tide.
Pyura stolonifera is an ecosystem engineer that can drastically alter habitats. Dense aggregates like the one shown here can dominate all substrata from the mid-intertidal to the subtidal zone, exclude other sessile species, and provide habitat for other organisms (Photo: Marc Rius)
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This species is found in coastal areas of the cool-temperate and warm-temperate marine bioregions of southern African, from Namibia on the west coast to south-eastern South Africa, but is absent from the region's subtropical and tropical bioregions. It is found from the intertidal zone to at least 10 m underwater.
I think that the ancient fishermen watched the birds and that's where they got the idea to use the Sea Squirts as a bait called "Red Bait" over here.
There are also different species of Sea Squirts in Australia, New Zealand and other parts of the southern hemisphere.
For more information on the Sea Squirts please visit here
Photos by Zac Smith, except the cited ones-All Right Reserved.
Camera: Canon Powershot SX60HS Bridge camera.
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Cool, here the crows open nuts the same way: they pick them up and drop them from some height, and sometimes the nuts fall on cars ... 🤣
But that they know that the Squirt will release the stinky water is great indeed 👍
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Good evening Hannes,
A long hard day for us and I didn't even do a second post today.
We have doves here that swallow whole peanuts in its shells 🤣
Always walk around with a helmet on in case a crow drops a nut on your nut 🤣
Yes, that was amazing to see and they are very intelligent birds.
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Good evening Zac,
we both have had a hard day, but yours was certainly a lot harder, because I have only been sitting at the computer, and yours was certainly more productive.
I didn't even have the time to edit one single photo - only a few moments inbetween to look on the Hive or on Twitter. I'll go on working for one or two more hours and then I'll try to find some sleep.
Haha, yes you have to take care, but it's always funny to see them hit a car and it's not yours 😎
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Hi Hannes,
Nope we are both productive guys and even if you just sit at a PC, you are also productive my friend.
Just different situations and you would do the same if you were in my shoes, as I will be in your shoes 🤣
I hope that you had a nice sleep.
Hahaha, yes, we can always laugh at others, but if it happens to us then we curse 🤣
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Hi Zac,
I think you would already have told some people the right words, but I haven't and I won't, that's the difference 😉
I had a short but deep sleep and then a busy day, so I haven't been in the mood to go online in the evening. Just a little twittering has been all I could do yesterday, and today might not be different.
That's right, we laugh until the nut hits us 🤣
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Hi Hannes,
Each to his own methinks 😉
I also still have some twittering to do tonight, but I first had to get the posts in.
Had a busy day as usual and tomorrow will continue with some repairs here on the cottage.
A cold ice pack on the knob always works 😜
Cheers and thanks.
Hi Zac,
a little bit of Twittering and some photo editing was all I have done this afternoon. Tomorrow will be a long day at work, but hopefully this time I'll have some time for other things than work 😆
With "cottage" you mean the new cottage you have found or are you repairing the old one before you sell it?
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Damn! How the heck did these birds get to learn these tricks. Hehe, I'm sure they hardly miss their target when dropping the shell.
Intelligence my friend and I don't think anyone has ever figured out how and when the birds figured out that there were meat inside those ugly cases.
Maybe a wave broke one open on a rock in medieval times.
Yes, they are very precise with their dropping of the shells and they even wait for a wave to break and the water to pull back before they drop the shell onto a rock in the shallow water.
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That is a good suggestion, hehe, maybe!
They are smart.
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Yes seagulls share the honors of intelligence with the ravens and the crows.
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I really enjoyed this post. Lovely photos too. Brilliant strategy these birds use.
Thank you and yes, the gulls are masters at getting food to eat and they are very intelligent.
Glad that you liked the post.
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lol!!! But we tend to forget most of it anyway!!!
Ha, many just cannot forget and they suffer in life my friend.
Animals are the same. They don't forget things that upset them. Even a wasp, bee, or fish remembers such moments.
Exactly and yes, they do remember.
There used to be many Guinea Fowls, but a naughty buy killed one some years ago and since then, no Guinea Fowls come here anymore.
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Oh yes @juanbg, the particular species that I posted is only found on the coasts of South Africa.
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