WARNING: These videos may be disturbing to some folks or younger eyes.

Who would have thought that turtles and pelicans could be such ferocious predators? In the videos below, one pigeon becomes prey to a pond turtle, and a pelican at London’s St. James’s Park quickly snatches and consumes a pigeon.

The first video shows a pond turtle quickly grabbing a pigeon (that is presumably feeding on land) and dragging it into the water—obviously to consume. What makes this video fascinating is the quickness of the turtle and its size—it’s no bigger than the pigeon. I don’t think any of the other pigeons realized what happened, but pigeons aren’t the brainiest bird.

The next video is a classic. It shows a pelican gobbling a pigeon. Certainly, one less domestic pigeon in London isn’t going to be missed by most people. I’ve seen these pelicans at St. James’s Park, and I believe they are African pink-backed pelicans (Pelecanus rufescens).

I’m not sure what they feed the pelicans at St. James’s Park or how often, and there seems to be many turtles in the video swimming about the pond; so these animals are probably taking pigeons because they need the extra protein.

In other unexpected predator-prey behavior, here are a series of images showing a heron consume a rabbit.

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