But rather, a fish that swallows swallows. Researchers reporting in the Journal of Fish Biology have for the first time recorded video footage of this week's animal Hydrocynus vittatus (African tiger fish) leaping out of the water and catching one of the acrobatic birds as they skim the surface of a South African lake.
Not really a great deal to add to the video . The first video of the footage I saw lacked the banjo music, but I love banjos, and the highlighted video helps show where to look. Fish such as pike are known to take slow moving or stationary birds—all those coot chicks and ducklings that are there one day and gone the next. But this is the first fish known to catch birds in flight.
Well done that fish.
