{"id":406,"date":"2006-10-26T09:30:10","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T08:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=406"},"modified":"2006-10-26T09:35:36","modified_gmt":"2006-10-26T08:35:36","slug":"cannibal-pelican-2-this-time-its-avian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":"Cannibal Pelican 2: This time it&#8217;s avian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=362\">this<\/a>? A heron decided to eat a rabbit for no discernable reason. This time it really is a pelican, and it&#8217;s eating a pigeon. <\/p>\n<p>See the full horror <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/shared\/spl\/hi\/pop_ups\/06\/uk_enl_1161769756\/html\/1.stm\">here<\/a>. That has to rate as one of the most surreal images that I&#8217;ve ever seen. The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/london\/6083468.stm\">BBC report<\/a> describes the moment a pelican casually strolled across to a pigeon, picked it up in its beak and tried to swallow it. A 20 minute struggle ensued, before the pigeon was swallowed, head first, still flapping as it went. Ew!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but I think that &#8216;pelicans eating pigeons&#8217; probably features on a big list of signs of the end-times. No doubt Channel 4 are probably preparing a &#8216;Top 100 signs of the Apocalypse&#8217; TV show at the moment, in which this event will feature quite highly, just after &#8216;Too many &#8220;Top 100&#8230;&#8221; TV shows on television&#8217;. It&#8217;ll be hosted by Jimmy Carr or Russell Brand.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/forums\/index.php?showtopic=14324\">Daria on my forums<\/a> for finding the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember this? A heron decided to eat a rabbit for no discernable reason. This time it really is a pelican, and it&#8217;s eating a pigeon. See the full horror here. That has to rate as one of the most surreal images that I&#8217;ve ever seen. The BBC report describes the moment a pelican &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=406\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cannibal Pelican 2: This time it&#8217;s avian<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weird-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5bQqr-6y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}