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Gulls have learned to follow diving ducks and take the bottom-dwelling mussels that the ducks bring to the surface, a food source that would otherwise be inaccessible to them. Gulls are one of the most adaptable groups of birds, able to exploit a wide variety of food resources and respond to new opportunities, and a forthcoming study documents this previously unrecognized behavior in Herring Gulls and Mew Gulls on Szczecin Lagoon.og0KHCIlpVY

 

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