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Thanks Jacob, that really made me laugh.
Seriously though the trouble is that gulls ARE big birds, and in some (cornwall in particular) areas they are so used to being fed that they have lost all fear of people. While some will just steal cautiously, the odd bully among them will (sorry Two Sheds but having lived in Cornwall for many years I've seen it a few times) actually attack anyone with food to get them to drop it. Its natural behavior for them, they 'mug' each other for food, and once they lose their fear of humans then we just become another type of seagull to them. So it's our own stupid faults for encouraging them in the first place.
But they are like many large birds, if they do bite they can cause a very nasty injury, which normally becomes infected due to the fact that they will eat from bins and rubbish tips which leave them full of germs.
Seriously though the trouble is that gulls ARE big birds, and in some (cornwall in particular) areas they are so used to being fed that they have lost all fear of people. While some will just steal cautiously, the odd bully among them will (sorry Two Sheds but having lived in Cornwall for many years I've seen it a few times) actually attack anyone with food to get them to drop it. Its natural behavior for them, they 'mug' each other for food, and once they lose their fear of humans then we just become another type of seagull to them. So it's our own stupid faults for encouraging them in the first place.
But they are like many large birds, if they do bite they can cause a very nasty injury, which normally becomes infected due to the fact that they will eat from bins and rubbish tips which leave them full of germs.
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