SEA ANEMONE EATS BIRD

Sea Anemone Eats Bird. The giant green sea anemone is a sea dwelling predator known to typically eat small fish, crustaceans and detached mussels. But sea birds that fall into the water may be consumed from time to time. In the footage captured by Tillamook Estuaries Partnership staff we see just that, a sea anemone devouring a baby cormorant bird.

Lisa Guy et al. 2014. Giant green anemones consume sea bird nestlings on the Oregon coast. Marine Ornithology, 42, 1-2.

Supporting Footage:
1.White Spotted Rose Anemone © Patrick Anders Webster
2.Purple Anemone © Patrick Anders Webster
3.Deep Sea Green Anemone © Patrick Anders Webster
4.Brandt's Cormorant © California Academy of Sciences
5.Bright Green Anemone © Don Whitaker
6.Anemone Time Lapse © Kyle Nessen

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[innerhealingsound]

omg i wish they did a timelapse on this... id love to see the sea anemone devour the bird little by little over the course of many many days or years.. I dont even know how long it would take him to eat the entire bird...

[zoobpy]

Usually I take the information in these videos quite seriously but I found the position this cormorant was and the line, "But just understand that if this little guy gets overlooked one more time, he's gonna eat all the goddamn chickens, " just made me laugh :p

[colakissed]

he's gonna eat all the gotdamn chickens. lol hahahaha

[omatthewo]

0:45 OH MY GOD, this is why i dont like swim in ocean

[TheMagicRobot]

Great, another reason for me to be creeped out by these things.

[Vadtic]

I'm pretty sure I stepped on one of these when I was walking along the shore line. Whatever it was sucked on my foot and freaked me the fuck out... I'll just admire the ocean from afar.

[ShockNAwww]

"I was just dreaming of gettn some head n wham... out of the sky... HEAD!"

[mud]

That bird got rekt! Can't 1v1 anemone.

[KokotoHero-N]

0:13 totally a Game of Thrones reference XD love it, even if not, still awesome.

[IRAMantisShrimp]

I be the baby cormorant was playing let's pretend with the other cormorant kids, and wanted to pretend to be an ostrich.  Since the rocks were too hard to stick its head in the ground, it tried something a bit softer...

Raise awareness!  Pretending to be an ostrich is a bad idea.  XD

[vinodkumar-ubtl]

My anemone eats only my clown fish food..

[euanahh]

looks like the anemone ate a chicken but the chicken looks like shes wearin a tutu lol

[uncledick]

Sea anemone are not stationary creatures. You need to fix that in your video.

[candour]

THIS IS WHAT I SIGNED UP TO SEE IN LIFE

[beeholder]

The little tentacles feel like Velcro.

[michaeljeckson]

I'm gonna start a business and call it K.F.Sea.

[zfangx]

There Once Was A Sea Cucumber And He Walks Well Swims And Goes Up To This- Oh Forget It...

[TheKendrickJ]

theres a carpet nem at under waterworld gold coast thats about 1.5m across

[henryjasonyauzhang]

Idk why but I kind of want to have a sea anemone as a pet... lol

[Craydily]

i feel like it wouldn’t be able to stretch all the way