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A CLEVER SEA GULL 
By WILLIAM STARR 
HOUSANDS of people 
have watched with 
fascination the inter¬ 
esting antics of sea¬ 
gulls. Watched from 
the deck of a steamer 
the throngs of greedy 
birds soaring over the 
water in search of bits 
of food to satisfy 
their omnivorous ap¬ 
petites ; watched from 
rugged coasts the 
thousands of restless birds flying out over 
the breaking waves and crowding their 
kind for positions on the overhanging 
ledges; or watched from sandy beaches 
their lazy flight back and forth over the 
tumbling surf, their peaceful floating in the 
quieter waters beyond or their imperious 
strutting along the water’s edge. The keen 
observer will discover many highly inter¬ 
esting traits and individual peculiarities in 
the daily habits of the sea. gull. Some of 
these are most amusing and instructive and 
tend to confirm or strengthen one’s belief 
in the intelligent action of lower animals. 
One day while strolling along a broad 
sandy beach on the Jersey coast my atten¬ 
tion was arrested by the peculiar antics of 
a large white gull. Curious to learn the 
exact cause or object of his strange ma¬ 
neuvers, I paused at a safe distance and 
watched. The gull, evidently in search of 
his breakfast, had discovered a live clam 
in the waste of the tide. The clam was 
naturally vitally interested about the pro¬ 
posed breakfast. It was successfully bar¬ 
ring every assault of the impatient bird. 
Every effort to force the tightly locked 
valves seemed futile. It appeared as though 
the simple defensive measures of the clam 
were successful and that the gull would be 
compelled to look elsewhere for his morn¬ 
ing meal. I have found it often the case 
that animals are easily discouraged by -un¬ 
successful efforts, especially when a per¬ 
plexing situation requiring a small amount 
of intelligent action meets with failure. 
This clever gull must have been an excep¬ 
tion for, after numerous discouraging fail¬ 
ures, he solved the difficult problem in 
quite an ingenious manner. After pecking 
and rolling the clam about for several min¬ 
utes, the bird finally paused and regarded 
it with head cocked on one side. I believed 
the game was over and the clam had won 
-—but the gull thought differently. Sud¬ 
denly, he grasped the clam in his’ bill and 
rose in the air. His flight was labored be- j 
cause of the considerable weight of his 
burden, but he succeeded in reaching a 
height of about seventy feet; and here he 
dropped his load. The clam had hardly 
hit the hard wet sand close to the water’s 
edge when the gull was at it again pecking 
with renewed vigor and determination. But 
still the defense of the clam remained un¬ 
broken. Again the clam was carried high 
in the air and dropped, but with no fur¬ 
ther success. This unusual procedure was 
repeated four times before the clam finally 
weakened. The triumphant bird was able 
to thrust its beak between the part open 
margins of the jarred shell and drag forth 
its reward. 
This seems to me like an unusual dis¬ 
play of bird intelligence. Has anyone else 
seen a gull as clever as this? 
