"Neighbors From Hell: Infanticide Rife In Guillemot Colony"

It would seem that food shortages are causing adult guillemots to deliberately attack chicks of the same species. Hundreds of such attacks occurred with chicks being pecked to death or flung from cliff ledges according to Researchers at the University of Leeds and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology...

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Common guillemots (Uria aalge) are usually “good” parents and rarely leave their chick unattended due to predation from gulls. But food shortages in recent years has led to both parents having to leave the nest in search of food.

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