Great Blue Heron Eats Snapping Turtle HQ HD
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ส.ค. 2018
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A Great Blue Heron has a difficult time attempting to swallow this baby Snapping Turtle.
Filmed at St. Johns Conservation Area, Niagara, Ontario.
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Great birds, I love watching them. Glad they're not 30 ft tall!
Waitress, I'll have a bowl of turtle soup and make it snappy.
And a side of melted butter cause that thing ain't going down 😨
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Can you repeat that? I'm not sure I was heron you correctly.
@@toonamife,
Better bring me a big bottle of meat tenderizer! 😅
I am a pharmacist and some people tell me “can I have the medicine in liquid form because I can’t swallow the pill” They need to watch this video.
What and learn how to take 12 minutes to swallow something! Nah - lets have the liquid form!
😅😂🤣
It takes some time for people who aren’t used to swallowing pills.
that's gonna hurt in the morning
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Lol
What I was thinking... 😆 😆🤣
Heron: this is hard, maybe the water...
Water: no
Turtle: you will never eat me give it up.
Heron: I always get what I want for dinner. And you will be my dinner!!
Blue Heron blues:
I love snapping turtles...
Snapping turtle's what I eat...
I nibble on they heads..
And, they tiny feet.
He looked at the camera man like.. you next😂
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I'm amazed that this heron could digest a whole turtle shell? fascinating..
Here in the midwest, herons and snapping turtles eat the same creatures with the same ambush tactic, from different sides -above and below.
It's the human equivalent of eating a whole tin of beans - without opening the tin first! (I just hope this bird isn't flying over me when the shell comes out again!)
Funny!!!!
Can they even fly?
@@alejandroperez5368 Yes
They must have some strong stomach juices to dissolve that shell.
Was thinking the same .....How a meal like this even travels through the oesophagus ; the stomach acids of some of these birds are unbelievable , even able to disolve bone .
While some other birds like owls cough up boney and fur remains .
With shorebirds (grebes, herons, cormorants, gulls, terns, kingfishers, crows, jays, swallows, pelicans) an most birds of prey, indigestible solid remains of their prey, such as hair, feathers and bones, are formed into a ball called a pellet in the gizzard. This pellet is then ejected. This process is called 'casting a pellet'. Such pellets are common to all birds of prey that swallow their food whole, including owls, hawks and eagles.
@@MacroX1231 Thanks . One exception being the "bearded vulture" able to disolve solid bone .
MacroX1231 Thanks for sharing.
EVERYBODY look out there's a hard turtle shell falling from some birds ass.
I'm sure someone has done a PhD on Heron-poop
Crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside
That's a full 13 mins ordeal for both of them. Digesting the shell will be another story. Superb dude. 😆
Incredible photography - thanks for your patience - so very interesting!
Catching the prey - 3 secs
Planning how to swallow it - 13 mins
"Why won't this soften up!" *dip*
Heron: Let me just wash that down with a lil sip of water...
The water in the lake serves as dipping sauce.
More as a lubricant
If it took me 15 minutes to eat my prey I’d move on to smaller and softer food lol
maybe she was not so hungry they catch a fish in every 5 minutes
"Heron just had a taste for Turtle that evening", they consume SO many different prey species.
Ever seen the claws on a snapping turtle's feet? You'd want to make damn sure it was dead before swallowing it!
Supersonicf111f 19740186 Yeah like I said I’d move on lol
That's gotta hurt coming back out.
I hope so
If it came back out at all. I wonder if any dead herons were found shortly afterward.
Gross
Lol
It’ll come out like white paint
Hey blue heron dunking ain't gonna make the turtle soft like a donut
Ouch... This is for sure very painful for both animals...
If those birds were twice their size I'd be afraid to leave my house for fear one could be planing to make a snack out of me.
This heron will be constipated for weeks.
ahaha
best comment so far regarding these birds LOL.....
If herons are like owls, they'll just puke out the bones and shells.
I guess the heron will be having the hardest poop of all time. It would be funny if the heron flies over the bald head of an idiot bully and poops a hard turtle shell from its anus knocking out the bully.
@@lil1ice186
You have quite an imagination!
@@lil1ice186
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This is the bird equivalent of "playing with your food".
They really are magnificent birds.
ow... Great Heron also eats turtle, I haven't seen in person yet, thanks for sharing. 👍
The Great Blue Heron's mother would be saying... "Stop playing with your food, junior!"
This would be a great commercial for stool softener.
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The heron won't actually digest the shell nor will he pass it. He'll just hork it up later - like hawks, herons can cast pellets.
@Beverly Rhame Heh. Herons are well known for eating odd things. Occasionally, it's even fatal - herons have been found choked to death on stickleback fish.
@Beverly Rhame they aren't greedy they are wild animals! They don't know any better!
Gulps a whole turtle, sips a bit of water...lol
What a pinnacle of intelligence this heron!
That shell is going to crash through a windshield.
Wow! Herons really eats everything! Great video!
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well his mother never told him to stop playing with his food !! :)- elegantly filmed !!
Now i will search "heron eats a rock"
More like heron pooping out turtle.
Chinese viewers (and pharmacists) are drooling over this video.
What a wonderful video
Yum yum, Crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside
Only needs a little bit of water to wash down that turtle in its intact shell? Amazing!
I feel like when the heron was taking a shit it was like, " OH ITS A BIG ONE"
RIP when that bird takes a dump.
"is he really gonna eat it?" Skip to the end "holy crap he did it" now I wonder, did he survive the S**t after?
Heron: I remember mom told me to wash your food at least 100 times before you eat it.
Turtle: Yeah you idiotic bird, keep throwing me in the water cause that's my habitat!
Turtle: Oh crap! There goes my life!
Great video. I think the heron was thinking that the shell was going to get softer and softer the more it dunked it in the water. I wonder if it "kept it down"? I mean, that's got to take a few days to digest!
Nah they always dip their prey in water. I guess it makes it easier to swallow
These birds are amazing! I saw one in our backyard that had a cotton mouth snake in its beak about 3 foot long. He tossed it in the air opened his mouth and it slid right down the herons throat, then slithered back out! Ewww
Herons will eat anything they can swallow, small pets included so don’t let them out in the yard.
WTFFF
It was still alive or it just slid out?
Amazing video...thanks
An extended GIF.
From what I’ve seen so far with Herons is that one’s chances of escaping their clutches is pretty low.
I get the strong feeling this is not a normal food for herons.
Turtle: Can we get the $#^% over with already????
Incredible video quality!
The turtle’s wtf moment.
“Totally Radicle, Dude!
Let’s order some pizza.”
- Leonardo
Why is it playing with turtle when its already right time to eat?
That is certainly not fast food.
These things have practically wiped out the bullfrog population where I live . They can stand like a statue for several minutes and the bullfrogs just swim right up to them .
That's gonna be a problem to shit out later.
I once caught some sort of freaky boney/spiny catfish in the Gulf with what appeared to be an exoskeleton full of spikes. Ugliest thing I ever saw aside from my ex. Tossed it on the pier, then a gray heron who I had already fed like 15 perch was somehow still intrigued. He walked around it, took a few looks at it, then stabbed it to death about 10 times, occasionally having to pry his beak out of the wood of the pier. Once it stopped moving, he took it right down, spines and all. Gulp.
After doing a little research and watching some other videos here on TH-cam, I've learned that they'll eat just about anything. Their strong stomach acid allows them to digest just about anything.
Sounds like you caught a sturgeon. Pretty rare fish and a protected fish on the Hudson River in NY
@@SebastianLongMaybe it was an armored catfish?
@@johnhall3570 In the Gulf though? Doesnt sound like a catfish.
Amazing footage!
Snapping turtle is either dead or so dizzy it can’t move.
I believe it's dead it looks bloated. Its legs are straight and its tail is straight. I'm not a know-it-all but I believe that heron would have had a hard time if that turtle was alive it's got some serious Claws and they can bite like hell just saying. But on the other hand I seen one along the river with a groundhog in his beak I don't know if it killed it or found it but it sure had it
The beak is made for stabbing, not crushing. The endless mouthing must be to gauge the width of an object that won’t compress. The bird has probably had choking experiences in the past. It drinks water before and after the swallow, perhaps for lubrication.
This guy washed that turtle more than me washing veggies before eating 😂
Man this will bring consequences in the morning
If you can't break it, don't eat it.
"There's always a bigger fish."
turtles likebut the herons like😍
No shortage of dipping sauce here.....
With my luck it’ll crap it onto my car.
That gives playing with your food new meaning. 😝
Before being swallowed the turtle lived and died several times.
Lovely Heron 🥰🥰🥰❤️🙂
Herons often try to eat prey what is to big to swallow it... But this time it has worked!
How can a turtle shell digest in a bird's stomach? amazing
REALLY strong stomach acids!
I think the Great Blue Heron must have one of the highest kill ratio of any predator!
Oh this brings back memories of that one time that I pooped out a turtle shell. Never again!
surely the heron cant digest that shell? which is going to cause it some big problems when it goes to take a dump the next morning
"If it fits I shits"
what you do not see are his Heron friends egging him on, cheering him to swallow the turtle whole, shell and all
This is how I imagine myself being eaten by a T-rex.
If you don't mind, what camera and lens/zoom setting were you using to take this? It's very good and excellent depth of field [focus] in this video. Or was it just 'cropped' from a wider image? Beautiful, either way. Thank you for this --- quite a learning experience.
Thank You Penboy. I am using a Sony CX190 Handycam. Auto aperture & focus. Tripod. 30x zoom...not sure what that translates to in mm focal length?
@@PETEDOVEPIX Price?
Slowest eating vid since My Dinner With Andre.
He may suffer a few "exit wounds" in a day or two...
Where the fuck are the Ninja turtles when u need em
Herons are nothing but snakes with wings.
How did he get the turtles neck
I am stunned that the turtle won't bite the heron inside of its esophagus or gizzard to the point of fatal injury.
A few years ago I saw a photo of a dead gull and rodent where it was evident from the position of the rodent that the gull had eaten a live rodent and the rodent had tried to tunnel his way out of the gull.
Bruzote,
In this case, it looks like the turtle is already dead, but I would imagine that if still alive, the turtle could conceivably cause a lot of internal damage, even fatal, to the heron. I am quite surprised that sharp edges of the turtle's carapace didn't damage the heron's esophagus or stomach.
It was well dead when it was swallowed.
How does he digest it? It’s gonna hurt coming out.
They also digest bones without any problems
Tortoise must have prayed for his life. Now the heron for the same. Ha! Haa! Heron stomach.
that hurts twice I guess
Awesome Footage 👍greeting from NYC
Thanks Roberto. Please visit my bird & wildlife TH-cam channel @ 'Pete Dove Niagara Wildlife' to see more.
Somebody’s gonna need a stool softener.
and I thought my GF was slow eating her dinner.
That turtle probably once in its stomach started freaking out majorly and started biting or clawing trying to get out, the heron didnt damage its head so the turtle was still alive and biting, thats why it had such trouble trying to swallow it, it mustve kept biting its throat when it tried to swallow it
The turtle was long dead before being swallowed. If it were alive, the Herons acid-like stomach juices would have paralyzed it pretty quickly! Thanks for watching!
That’s gonna hurt coming out the other end....
I was about to add a similar comment!!!
have fun pooping out the shell ... OUCH
Dude must be cursing the fact that he has no hands. It's insanely difficult just to turn the turtle 90 degrees