The first confirmed record of a freshwater fish preying on birds in flight

The waters of the African lake seem calm and peaceful. A few migrant swallows flit near the surface. Suddenly, leaping from the water, a tigerfish grabs one of the famously speedy birds straight out of the air.

“The whole action of jumping and catching the swallow in flight happens so incredibly quickly that after we first saw it, it took all of us a while to really fully comprehend what we had just seen,” says Nico Smit, director of the Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management at North-West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa.

LINK (via: Nature)

Comments

[Kim Nguyen]

Wow that's the first - normally bird catches fish and not the other way around ...

[August]

Wonder if you can get one by air casting with a big pike fly over it. Next big thing?