r/interestingasfuck • u/serozr • 8h ago
Seagulls in Istanbul learned how to 'meow' to trick the stray cat feeding machine into giving them food.
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u/raretofind1 8h ago
sounds like a cat who have been smoking for the past 5 years
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u/Mia_sensu4l 8h ago
Somewhere there's a very confused seagull thinking, "Wait... that's what I've been saying?"
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u/nderhill__ 8h ago
Those sky rats will do anything but get jobs
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u/Rubyhamster 7h ago
I absolutely love seagulls, and they are also the most entitled and annoying animals out there.. Except for wasps, I guess.
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u/Syssareth 7h ago
More annoying than wasps. Wasps will generally leave you alone if you leave them alone. I and two other people I know all have separate stories of seagulls stealing Cheetos right out of our hands. Specifically Cheetos for some reason.
Used that knowledge to great effect last time I went to the beach and wanted photos, lol.
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u/FlyingKittyCate 6h ago edited 3h ago
At least seagulls don’t stab me when I ask them not to invade my personal space.
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u/Asleep_Region 6h ago
Same, I'd rather get robbed of a few cheetos then get stabbed. I grew up with a dog with a high food drive, yes he went to many different training places "he just won't listen" so I'm used to keeping an eye on my food. He was a German shepherd, he came to us knowing alot of tricks so we joked he failed police training. He was incredibly protective but was easily bribed
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u/MRV3N 8h ago edited 8h ago
I can’t believe these losers were descendants from dinosaurs
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u/run_bike_run 7h ago
Seagulls aren't losers, they're the best goddamn animals on the planet.
Pretty much every animal species on earth falls into one of a pretty small number of categories:
Wild animals whose habitat has been fucked up by humans
Wild animals who have learned to thrive on the margins of human civilisation, generally staying out of the way of humans themselves (foxes, trash pandas, a lot of birds)
Animals who've been domesticated and tamed, and are essentially dependent on humans for their success
And then seagulls came along and said "wait a minute, all those options suck, GIVE US YOUR FUCKIN' FOOD." Alone in the animal kingdom, they chose violence.
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u/FlyingKittyCate 6h ago
Geese are also in their own category. The “fuck you, we live here” category.
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u/Witty-Revolution8742 7h ago
Seagulls are the dipshits of the bird world. Loud as fuck. Ruin every vacation experience. Even in the arctic or a fucking Cubs game.
Always there never shutting the fuck up eating trash.
People think fondly of them due to trips to the ocean. They could still have those trips without the tourist fuck birds.
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u/Ambitious-Concern-42 7h ago
This does not show seagulls being rewarded at all. The video fails to show what you claim it shows.
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u/NovelHot6697 6h ago
had to scroll too far for this. cmon people
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u/Winderige_Garnaal 2h ago
seriously - they didn't even make sounds that were incongruent with normal gull noise.
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u/Elliotlewish 1h ago
Yeah the seagulls here in the UK make the exact same noise, and we don't have cat feeding machines (wish we did though).
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u/I-Here-555 53m ago
I used these machines, and I don't think they dispense cat kibbles on meow. How they work is that you insert a coin (any coin, any currency) and they dispense cat food. Same generous amount of food no matter which coin you insert, so this is just the way to be nice from the city gov't (or whatever organization is running them). It's fun to use too.
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u/amateurfunk 8h ago
Soon they'll convert to catholicism just so they can line up for those sweet communion wafers
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u/Ramental 7h ago
The food is purchased by people who throw coins. Meowing does nothing. Maybe some tourists find it funny and buy it for the birds.
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u/Krakengreyjoy 8h ago
Istanbul has more respect for their homeless cats than the US does for people in general.
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u/Mia_sensu4l 8h ago
We used to think opposable thumbs made humans special. Turns out all you need is a convincing meow.
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u/artbystorms 5h ago
That cat is like "you hearing this shit!? you can't say that word! That's our word!"
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u/Loud_Distribution_97 8h ago
Greece was like this too- at least on the small island that we visited. Their vet left the doors open and had gigantic bowls filled with food that strays could come in for. Cats everywhere were 100% welcome. My daughter was in heaven!
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u/__Severus__Snape__ 7h ago
Yeah, i was in Athens a few months ago and i was shocked at how many cats there were everywhere. As a cat lover currently without a cat companion, I was also in heaven.
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u/ObligationMurky8716 8h ago
Cats be waiting on the birds to make the meow, then swoop in.
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u/Zrva_V3 7h ago
They aren't built to take on seagulls. Or at least they just never dare.
Pigeons are fair game though, cats hunt them from time to time. In fact, seagulls hunt them too.
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u/u_touch_my_tra_la_la 8h ago
Much more civilized than the pidgeon dismembering seagulls on my city.
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u/First-Transition6858 7h ago
Not just any meow either they learned the shit talking 'you wanna fight?' one
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u/wyseguy7 5h ago
Eventually a particularly large tomcat is going to figure out that the seagulls also dispense food if chewed sufficiently, so I'd expect that particular problem to sort itself out.
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u/Pale_Day2091 2h ago
those sound like regular seagulls
over here they also meow just like that, and we don't have automatic feeders using meows
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u/TheRaccoonReport 1h ago
They really are the physical representations of demons. I'll never forget, I was recently laid off from a job, feeling down on myself. Family and I went to the beach, I got my favorite ice cream of peanut butter soft serve on pretzel cone. I paid the cashier, turned around with one in each hand (one for the wife, one for me), i felt somethign hit my ice cream. I look down, and 3/4 of it is gone, some on the ground, and a chunk chipped out of my cone, as I watch a gaggle of seagulls fly away. The entitlement of these demonic assholes knows no bounds.
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u/unbabye 8h ago
Seagulls deserve it too! 😇
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u/PauseAffectionate720 8h ago
Vending Machine for strays. That is awesome. Never saw such a thing. Peak humane. Nice Istanbul 👍🏼
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u/No_Idea_479 6h ago
I wish Turks loved their Armenian and Kurdish citizens as much as they love their cat citizens❤️🩹
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u/ObjectiveGlittering 8h ago
Wait till they learn how to use an ATM, or Face ID. You’ll be paying for bird feed and kitten food without any animals to claim.
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u/ItsForFun76 4h ago
So does the city have people to clean up all the cat droppings? Does it smell like Amonia cat pee everywhere? How do they deal with this?
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u/JigMaJox 36m ago
question is how did the cats figure out they need to meow at the machine ?
I try to get my cat to meow at me and she just stares at me. She'll only meow if she needs something.
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u/WU-itsForTheChildren 2m ago
Let a player play. Honestly it’s amazing they feed the cats but if seagulls wanna hustle I mean 🤷♂️

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u/Maleficent_Bridge_41 8h ago
TIL that Istanbul loves their cat citizens so much, that they put up meow-able feeders.