A seagull was caught on camera pulling a wild rabbit out of a hole and swallowing it whole in gruesome footage. In the video captured on Skomer Island, a nature reserve cared for by The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales, the great black-backed gull manages to down the entire creature in just several large gulps.
The defiant bird drags the rabbit out of an underground hole and bites onto its head. It then lifts the furred animal up and chokes it down as another bird watches on.
For a couple of seconds, it looks like it may have bitten off more than it could chew with this particular rabbit, but with a quick pause the rabbit's back legs disappear down the gull's throat.