An amateur photographer in Delaware, Sam Davis, took a rather shocking photo of a heron flying through the air, dragging a long strip, and after the telephoto lens was drawn closer, Sam Davis was horrified to find that it was actually a snake eel piercing out of the heron's body!
How can a snake eel be able to drill out of its body after it is swallowed by a heron? Isn't this the creature from the legendary Alien? How terrifying is this animal?
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > snake eel and its true history! </h1>
Snake eel is a shallow bottom fish widely distributed in the western Atlantic, listening to the name is very similar to the snake, the body of the snake eel is a long snake,up to 2 meters or so, like to hide in the sand, is a fierce carnivorous fish! Although the snake eel does not look good, its meat is tender, the fat content is high, the taste is delicate, the taste is delicious, and it is a rare economic fish.
A snake eel that can escape from burrowing in its prey
The habit of the snake eel is to hide at the bottom of the shallow sea, and then lurk in the sand, revealing a head, quickly attacking and hunting when there is prey, quickly retracting into the cave when there is a threat, and the cave on which it depends for survival is dug out by the rapid stirring of its tail like a dagger!
So when it can't dodge and be swallowed by other predators, it will generally repeat the same trick, and also start to punch holes to avoid threats like living on the bottom of the sea, this blow makes the predators who swallow it very painful, never encountered such a prey, and actually planned to dig a hole in the body and run out!
However, the snake eel has no sense of direction when punching holes in the body of the predator, it does not know where it is outside, so a chaotic arch, if it goes outside the body before it dies, then it is lucky, if it hits the wrong direction, it will die of lack of oxygen before coming out, then sorry, the body of the predator will become its grave!
One of them is a black seabream that is not long remembered, because the snake eel was found to be petrified and wrapped in more "mummies" in this fish, and researchers found petrified snake eels in 19 samples from 335 black seabream specimens! This is a technique for the organism to protect itself, which will proliferate a large amount of tissue to wrap the foreign body and prevent it from infecting other organs!
Of course, we don't know how many snake eels ran out of the black seabream, after all, we have not caught the black seabream with wounds on the body, it is estimated that after such a toss, the black seabream will also hang!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" how did > the snake eel escape from the heron? Will this unlucky heron still survive? </h1>
Herons don't know where they caught the snake eel, after all, the benthic fish of the snake eel rarely comes to the shore! This heron was also really unlucky, and actually swallowed a "snake eel" with super mourning skills!
The body of this heron is something that the snake eel has never experienced, because the water temperature at the bottom of the shallow sea is difficult to exceed 30 degrees, so the environment of almost 42 degrees in the heron's body makes it a warm embrace that it has never experienced in its life, but the snake eel instinctively feels that this is not a place to stay for a long time! So the snake eel began another round of escape!
Fortunately this time it found a relatively weak neck and abdomen junction, here is the weakest position of birds, so the snake eel ran out, stretched out its head to look around, found that it actually came to the sky, from the bottom of the sea to the sky, an incomparably magical experience, it is estimated that there is only this snake eel on the earth, so it goes back to tell other snake eels to listen, it is estimated that it will be treated as a neuropathy! It's like we think of people who have sat on UFOs as monsters, haha!
Will this heron still live?
If the snake eel is still in the heron's body, it is estimated that the probability of the heron surviving is lower, after all, it is not an easy task for such a large snake eel to be petrified in the body, and it is easy to be infected!
After the snake eel escaped from the heron's body, there was only one problem left, the wound was not big, whether it hurt important organs, whether there was heavy bleeding, etc., but from the perspective of sam Davis who was still flying when he took the photo, it seems that there is no major problem except for a hole, but whether the next gastrointestinal wound will leak food and continue to cause serious infection is a questionable question!
Obviously see that it is still alive
I hope this heron is all right, if it can survive, it is estimated that the next time it will be killed and will not eat this terrible animal!