bird & me
April 26, 2012 8:39 AM   Subscribe

Do I have to worry about a large bird trying to eat me?

Lying on my back on a deserted seashore in the middle of nowhere, far from any other people, seeing a large bird of prey circling in the sky above me, do I need to worry at all that I look like potential food?
posted by Paquda to Grab Bag (4 answers total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Heya, if you're trying to learn about e.g. how birds of prey or scavengers identify food or the specific risks of human/bird interactions, maybe ask again next week with a question that's more clearly about that; as phrased this comes off as kind of like you're goofing around with some chatfilter. -- cortex

 
No, I don't think so, pterodactyls have been extinct for quite some time.
posted by jerseygirl at 8:41 AM on April 26, 2012 [1 favorite]


You sure it's not a vulture? Lying on a beach alone like that, you may look kinda dead.
posted by Think_Long at 8:44 AM on April 26, 2012


No, they won't harm you. They're just checking if you're dead, because then they would eat you.
posted by Jehan at 8:44 AM on April 26, 2012


I think it would depend on how long you've been dead. As far as I know, most birds of prey won't tackle large animals unless they know they're not going to put up much of a fight (i.e. they're young, sick or already dead).
posted by fight or flight at 8:45 AM on April 26, 2012


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