Animals

A photo taken by a British bird researcher and watcher revealed a strange scene recorded for the first time, when a seal appeared to “spit” water at an eagle that approached it, in the Newtown Harbor area on the Isle of Wight, southern England. Under the title “The first images of their kind,” a report on the scientific website “Science Alert” says: The only thing that is certain about nature is that it always surprises us with what we do not expect, as happened with British researcher Claire Jacobs, who is fond of bird watching, when she took these strange photos. While cruising around Newtown Harbour. Jacobs and her daughter, Megan, saw a sea eagle, also known as a white-tailed eagle, swooping into the water. As it approached the water, a seal emerged from the depths, spitting a stream of water in its direction. Claire and Megan Jacobs, along with paleontologist David Martill from the University of Portsmouth, have written a paper on the spitting incident. They believe the seal may have been trying to ward off the eagle as a means of defending the prey they were both seeking, a fish in the water. . According to the report, spitting is not common in vertebrates, but it is more common in humans, camels, llamas, and alpacas, in addition to some species of snakes and fish, and in this incident it appears that “spitting” was the gray seal’s best form of defense. Experts explained: “Sightings of gray seals and white-tailed eagles are now frequent events on the Isle of Wight, in southern England, but interactions between them have not been reported before now.”   A photo taken by a British bird researcher and watcher revealed a strange scene recorded for the first time, when a seal appeared to “spit” water at an eagle that approached it, in the Newtown Harbor area on the Isle of Wight, southern England. Under the title “The first images of their kind,” a report on the scientific website “Science Alert” says: The only thing that is certain about nature is that it always surprises us with what we do not expect, as happened with British researcher Claire Jacobs, who is fond of bird watching, when she took these strange photos. While cruising around Newtown Harbour. Jacobs and her daughter, Megan, saw a sea eagle, also known as a white-tailed eagle, swooping into the water. As it approached the water, a seal emerged from the depths, spitting a stream of water in its direction. Claire and Megan Jacobs, along with paleontologist David Martill from the University of Portsmouth, have written a paper on the spitting incident. They believe the seal may have been trying to ward off the eagle as a means of defending the prey they were both seeking, a fish in the water. . According to the report, spitting is not common in vertebrates, but it is more common in humans, camels, llamas, and alpacas, in addition to some species of snakes and fish, and in this incident it appears that “spitting” was the gray seal’s best form of defense. Experts explained: “Sightings of gray seals and white-tailed eagles are now frequent events on the Isle of Wight, in southern England, but interactions between them have not been reported before now.”   A photo taken by a British bird researcher and watcher revealed a strange scene recorded for the first time, when a seal appeared to “spit” water at an eagle that approached it, in the Newtown Harbor area on the Isle of Wight, southern England. Under the title “The first images of their kind,” a report on the scientific website “Science Alert” says: The only thing that is certain about nature is that it always surprises us with what we do not expect, as happened with British researcher Claire Jacobs, who is fond of bird watching, when she took these strange photos. While cruising around Newtown Harbour. Jacobs and her daughter, Megan, saw a sea eagle, also known as a white-tailed eagle, swooping into the water. As it approached the water, a seal emerged from the depths, spitting a stream of water in its direction. Claire and Megan Jacobs, along with paleontologist David Martill from the University of Portsmouth, have written a paper on the spitting incident. They believe the seal may have been trying to ward off the eagle as a means of defending the prey they were both seeking, a fish in the water. . According to the report, spitting is not common in vertebrates, but it is more common in humans, camels, llamas, and alpacas, in addition to some species of snakes and fish, and in this incident it appears that “spitting” was the gray seal’s best form of defense. Experts explained: “Sightings of gray seals and white-tailed eagles are now frequent events on the Isle of Wight, in southern England, but interactions between them have not been reported before now.”