Big bird with the big beak. Swoop down, scoop up fish or a frog. Understandable for a bird. Then I saw this: (If you have a fondness of pigeons, look away.)
I'm guessing he was hungry and didn't want to go look for something else. Scenes like this make some think pelicans are evil. Granted, I don't think it's fair to assign human qualities to a bird, but it turns out they are also child molesters. From an article in The Wilson Journal of Ornithology:
We defined forced copulations (FC) with chicks as any interaction during which an adult attempted to mount, or actually mounted and copulated with, an unfledged nestling. In all FCs, nestlings appeared to resist the actions of adults by struggling not to be pinned and attempting to escape and/or dislodge the adult during copulation motions.
… [Observed pelicans] sought out an isolated chick that was not part of a pod, and violently jabbing and biting it. The adult then forced the chick to the ground and pinned it by the neck or back of the head using its bill, followed by attempted mounting and/or copulation movements lasting approximately 15-30 sec.
Fledged juveniles may be mistaken for adult females in some species, but there is no obvious adaptive explanation for forced copulations with unfledged chicks. The motivation for forced copulation with unfledged chicks is therefore unclear.
So they eat live pigeons and try to rape the children of other pelicans.
I'm definitely avoiding pelicans in the future. Especially when I'm wearing my pelican chick suit.
Found via mental_floss
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