Eagle nabs crocodile

Wildlife guide Mark Sheridan-Johnson snapped this thrilling photo on a Tanzania river bank. The eagle nabbed the juvenile Nile crocodile while the reptile was lunching on some fish. "Amazing Image: Eagle Snatches Crocodile From Riverbank" (ABC News)

• [Henry Pootel]

  Almost Trogdoresque

  • [EH]

    Nice! I was thinking Mooninite Err’s “ha HA!”

  • [SedanChair]

    EAGLED

• [Dan Hibiki]

  Your gator fist is no match for my eagle claw!
  *laughs and strokes his long white beard*

  • [Sekino]

     … *and* flips it.

• [Funk Daddy]

  Eagle to media: “Tastes like chicken.”

  • [Brainspore]

    “Hey, can I borrow your croc pot?”

• [starfish and coffee]

  ” … the juvenile Nile crocodile while the reptile …”
  brilliant!

• [Yep]

  I believe the Pequots saw that as an omen that handbags will soon be delivered.

• [mccrum]

  You guys got it all kinds of wrong.  That crocodile made a deal with that eagle.  Now ain’t nobody safe. 

  “Thought you could run in a zig zag?  Thought you could climb a tree?  Thought you could get in a helicopter and fly away?  Crocodile still got you now.”

• [pjk]

  “Circle of life,” he said as he took another bite of eagle.

• [schlocktober]

  America, fuck yeah!

  • [Itsumishi]

    What exactly does America have to do with the African Fish Eagle?

    • [Brainspore]

      Yeah, that’s the ticket. Deniability.

• [Nash Rambler]

  Evolution’s a real jerk.

• [Brainspore]

  That’s what happens when a crocodile tries to mess with Gandalf.

• [Itsumishi]

  I guess it’s time for this amazing film to get a sequel.

• [Joninokc007]

  Nile croc kung fu is weak….Fish Eagle kung fu is strong..

• [Paul Renault]

  I wonder if the eagle was the same bad-ass bird in this photo:
  http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/05/10/article-0-1304EA9E000005DC-378_964x711.jpg

• [Anna-nina Kovalenko]

  but that eagle has no head!