A birder from California sent me a negative of an X-ray image of a gull that
had attempted to eat a large mole. The X-ray shows a dead mole inside the
chest cavity of a dead gull. Apparently the gull swallowed the live mole
which then proceeded to dig its way up and out with its powerful claws,
killing gull in the process. But alas, the mole must have asphixiated just
before freeing itself. It appears to have died just before it was able to
pierce the skin in the lower neck area.

Scott Ray
scray at wolfe.com
Yakima, WA
509/965-5456