The Big Picture: Sky Pirates of the Galápagos. - Scientific Inquirer

The Big Picture: Sky Pirates of the Galápagos. - Scientific Inquirer

CREDIT: Lip Kee In this captivating moment frozen against the slate-gray sky, two swallow-tailed gulls clash with a much larger adversary—a frigate bird—in an aerial ballet of survival and cunning. The image, taken in the Galápagos Islands, shows the gulls defending their territory and, quite possibly, their meal, from one of nature’s most notorious kleptoparasites. The frigate bird, dark and formidable in silhouette, is not simply flying—it is …