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  • African Tigerfish Jump Into The Air To Catch Birds Mid-Flight [VIDEO]

    01/10/2014 3:28:08 PM PST · by BBell · 19 replies
    http://www.isciencetimes.com ^ | January 10, 2014 5:21 PM EST | Josh Lieberman
    Researchers in South Africa have captured video of a tigerfish leaping out of the water and taking down a bird. Stories of the African tigerfish preying on flying birds have circulated for decades, but this marks the first documented case of any type of fish displaying this method of predation. "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," said Nico Smit, director of the Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management at...