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| Great White Shark Bites Off More Than It Can Chew | |
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| Topic Started: Jul 24 2014, 08:36 PM (421 Views) | |
| stargatedalek | Jul 24 2014, 08:36 PM Post #1 |
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!
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http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/great-white-shark-bites-more-it-can-chew
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Jul 24 2014, 08:44 PM Post #2 |
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I think it's good that for once public opinion didn't cloud judgement in if an organism was "valuable" enough to save, but a shame the shark ended up dying anyways.
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| Mathius Tyra | Jul 24 2014, 09:19 PM Post #3 |
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Rat snake is love... Rat snake is life
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Well, I don't think it's easy to help pulling out a sea lion from a 4 metres long shark's throat, also no shark would allow anyone to do that easily. This reminds me of that heron who swallowed too big fish and died. |
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| stargatedalek | Jul 24 2014, 09:33 PM Post #4 |
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!
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that must be rare for a heron to do that, considering I've seen them swallow turtles and even ducklings almost as large as their own torso and be fine what came to mind for me is the famous fossil of xiphactinus choked on gillicus http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d7/Xiphactinus_audax_Sternberg_Museum.jpg Edited by stargatedalek, Jul 24 2014, 09:34 PM.
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| Mathius Tyra | Jul 24 2014, 09:53 PM Post #5 |
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Rat snake is love... Rat snake is life
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Well, that fish is a big fresh water lamprey and is about the same length to the hero's neck. Also, I think the mucus lamprey creates to protect itself affected the heron as well. |
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| stargatedalek | Jul 24 2014, 10:12 PM Post #6 |
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!
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that could certainly be, the mucus can be very sticky and clog up lots of things but lampreys themselves are pretty easy to swallow Edited by stargatedalek, Jul 24 2014, 10:12 PM.
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