Feb 10, 2012
A shark eating a shark
From New Scientist…
Wobbegongs usually lie in wait on the sea floor for a passing fish or a tasty invertebrate to swim by and then ambush their prey. This one got lucky with a brown-banded bamboo shark, and was in the process of swallowing it whole and head first. The wobbegong’s appetite for large meals is helped by its dislocating jaw, large gape and rearward-pointing teeth.
While wobbegongs eating sharks has been recorded before from stomach contents, this is the first time it has been photographed in action…
(via Geekosystem)
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Hope that thing doesn’t have an epiglottis because if I were that little shark, I’d bite the mess outta that thing. I may go down, but you, sneaky sir, are gonna have a sore throat for a long time.
Fascinating!!!