I came across this article in The Daily Mail from the UK featuring some incredible photographs taken by an amateur photographer, Stewart Canham, near Salisbury, Wilts in the United Kingdom. The birs is a cormorant and he's eating a pike WHOLE!! I know that the cormorant is quite the hunter but had no idea they were capable of taking one of these down in one piece. The pike can get to be pretty long and is not the smallest of freshwater fish.
"With its rows of needle-sharp teeth, the pike is a feared predator in the water world. But this one hadn't a hope when a hungry cormorant decided it was supper time. The bird pounced on the foot-long pike with its hooked bill and pulled it to the surface of a lake. The two antagonists grappled for a few seconds before, in one swift movement, the magnificent bird extended and twisted its neck in preparation for supper. Its highly elastic throat allowed the cormorant to gobble the pike down whole within seconds."
Check out how the cormorant twists its neck...crazy!! Anyway...if you want to check out the original link...click on the post title.
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Mother Nature never ceases to amaze me. That's quite incredible. It reminds me of how pythons and other large snakes eat their pray.
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