It would be a once in a lifetime experience for sure, and most certainly a one and done experience, but that’s how nature works some survive others take the slide
Amazing footage! Wow that looks like a huge (do you know what type?) fish she caught! Still, the heron looked to have swallowed that thing whole okay? It looked around 0:10 that the unlucky prey was still live when swallowed!? I wonder, does the large fish stand any slim chance of escaping or even damaging (hopefully no harming the bird) the heron’s skinny neck/stomach if eaten in that condition??
It was a Medium sized sunfish, most times when they catch fish they swallow them alive,eventually the stomach acids kill off the fish when it's digested alive till it dies, I suppose if it angled itself right it could harm the bird, that's why they swallow fish face first so the spines on their backs won't puncture the the throat or any other organ on the way down,pelicans tend to swallow prey the same way, sometimes herons will kill an animal first if it thinks it could hurt it if eaten,but most times the animal is digested alive till it dies inside the Herons or Pelicans stomach
At 13", is that movement of the bird's feathers due to the fish squirming inside the neck, or just the bird itself twitching its feathers? (It's horrific to think of anything still being alive and conscious while sliding down the throat and into the stomach.)
@@LORDCRIMSONANUBIANFOX You said it had just swallowed another fish. Maybe that one hadn't gone all the way down and it wiggled a bit when the heron took a drink.
