Sep 15, 2011
Close up of a fly biting a snake as the snake eats a rat
From photographer Alex Badyaev’s description…
A fly isn’t fussy as it gets a rare drink in the hot and dry Sonoran desert. The western diamondback rattlesnake is too busy swallowing a desert packrat to notice another dinner guest.
(via All Creatures)
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“Nature, red in tooth and claw.” But anything featuring the demise of a rat is ok by me.
That fly is so mean.
and so goes the world…