There’s an old saying in journalism: If a dog bites a man, that’s not news. Man bites dog: That’s news.
So how about a sea anemone that chows down on a bird,
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The picture is surprising because, as researcher Lisa Guy of the University of Washington in Seattle told Deep Sea News,
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, it’s an “example of an apex predator being consumed by an animal that doesn’t seem to really do anything.”
Most people think of sea anemones as pretty floral-looking blobs,
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, and they are, but they’re also carnivorous predators. The giant green anemone (Anthopleura xanthogrammica) regularly eats small fish,
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, crustaceans and mussels. And now it looks as though it may not be terribly unusual for well-placed anemones to vacuum up bird chicks that get knocked from their nests into the water.
Lisa Habecker of the Haystack Rock Awareness Program spotted the bird-eating anemone at Haystack Rock in Cannon Beach, Ore. She had seen a bird meet a similar fate at Haystack Rock in 2003 when a young western gull fell directly onto a large anemone that swallowed the chick whole,
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On the morning of July 24, 2013,
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, a group of onlookers directed Habecker to a tidal pool where she saw that history had repeated itself. This

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