Sunday, January 12, 2014 9:41:12 PM
Fish leaps to catch birds on the wing
An African tigerfish caught on the Lower Zambezi River.
Tigerfish swallows swallows after grabbing them out of the air over African lake.
Published on Jan 9, 2014 by Nature Newsteam
The waters of the African lake seem calm and peaceful. A few migrant swallows flit near the surface. Suddenly, leaping from the water, a fish grabs one of the famously speedy birds straight out of the air! This swallow-swallowing behaviour, long talked about anecdotally, has now been documented by scientists for the first time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqL1aXabUY8 [with comments]; http://www.nature.com/news/video-fish-leaps-to-catch-birds-on-the-wing-1.14496 [with comments]; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jfb.12278/abstract
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An African tigerfish caught on the Lower Zambezi River.
Tigerfish swallows swallows after grabbing them out of the air over African lake.
Published on Jan 9, 2014 by Nature Newsteam
The waters of the African lake seem calm and peaceful. A few migrant swallows flit near the surface. Suddenly, leaping from the water, a fish grabs one of the famously speedy birds straight out of the air! This swallow-swallowing behaviour, long talked about anecdotally, has now been documented by scientists for the first time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqL1aXabUY8 [with comments]; http://www.nature.com/news/video-fish-leaps-to-catch-birds-on-the-wing-1.14496 [with comments]; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jfb.12278/abstract
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