Whales vs. Gulls
In southern Argentina, one of the rarest whales in the world – the Right Whale – is under siege. Sea gulls have inexplicably begun to gouge out chunks of the whales’ flesh when the mammal comes to rest on the surface. Rachael Anne Goodman visited Argentina’s Penisula Valdes, the site where researchers first noted the gulls’ strange behavior.
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