PSN ID
by Unless
there’s some Photoshop trickery afoot here, this photo makes you want
to shout, “He’s behind you!”, because you know that the cute little
robin is as good as a gone. Yet there is a morbid fascination about the
way we are often most keen to watch animals in their natural setting
when they are busy gobbling one another up. The photos collected here
add something else to the whole guzzling theme, capturing as they do
creatures enjoying their lasts moments in this world before the jaws of
death close on them forever. Been dying to say it: om nom nom nom nom
nom nom.
Image: Chris and Monique Fellows via ny nerd
The seal
may be one of the ocean’s top predators but there’s just no contest
when it comes face to face with that most deadly of sharks, the great white.
The seal takes one look into those stony black eyes and turns on its
flippers – but too late! Despite being over three times as long and
almost ten times the weight of its mammalian prey, the great white is
not nearly as agile. It must attack from below, bursting out of the
water, so that there is only one way the seal can go: down into its
gaping maw.
Image: Adam Britton
The
photo above shows a mud crab that looks destined to become crab sticks
being tossed into the nutcracker-like jaws of the Australian
saltwater crocodile. There, it is set be put through the grinder at the
back of the croc’s mouth. The saltwater crocodile is especially partial
towards the mud crab, but it has to be quick, efficient and brutal or
else the crafty crustacean may make its escape, or even fight back with a
powerful and painful pinch of it pincer. P-ouch!
Image: David Maitland via j-walk blog
It’s
difficult to say who’s eating who in this snapshot of a struggle
between a Morelet’s tree frog and a cat-eyed tree snake, which lasted
for hours through the night in the tropical forest of Belize. Locked
together in a deadly embrace, neither the kicking tree frog – who you’d
have to say is quite handy – nor the stubborn tree snake showed any sign
of weakening or backing down from the stalemate. In the end it was
photographer David Maitland who gave in and went to bed.
Image: Kerry Roberts via Where Light Meets Dark
If
there was uncertainty in the last shot about whether the tree frog
would get it, there sure isn’t here. What bites you on the nose this
time is that the squealing, splashing frog is getting eaten alive by…
another frog – a cannibalistic green-striped frog to be precise, and one
no larger than its tree-dwelling cousin. Cannibalism is unsettling at
the best of times, but when it’s in your own back garden, it’s really
going to give you a shock – as it did Queensland, Australia resident
Kerry Roberts. Still, it just goes to show: it’s a frog eat frog world.
Source: http://www.speedywap.com/20542/death-in-captured-frames/#more-20542
there’s some Photoshop trickery afoot here, this photo makes you want
to shout, “He’s behind you!”, because you know that the cute little
robin is as good as a gone. Yet there is a morbid fascination about the
way we are often most keen to watch animals in their natural setting
when they are busy gobbling one another up. The photos collected here
add something else to the whole guzzling theme, capturing as they do
creatures enjoying their lasts moments in this world before the jaws of
death close on them forever. Been dying to say it: om nom nom nom nom
nom nom.
Image: Chris and Monique Fellows via ny nerd
The seal
may be one of the ocean’s top predators but there’s just no contest
when it comes face to face with that most deadly of sharks, the great white.
The seal takes one look into those stony black eyes and turns on its
flippers – but too late! Despite being over three times as long and
almost ten times the weight of its mammalian prey, the great white is
not nearly as agile. It must attack from below, bursting out of the
water, so that there is only one way the seal can go: down into its
gaping maw.
Image: Adam Britton
The
photo above shows a mud crab that looks destined to become crab sticks
being tossed into the nutcracker-like jaws of the Australian
saltwater crocodile. There, it is set be put through the grinder at the
back of the croc’s mouth. The saltwater crocodile is especially partial
towards the mud crab, but it has to be quick, efficient and brutal or
else the crafty crustacean may make its escape, or even fight back with a
powerful and painful pinch of it pincer. P-ouch!
Image: David Maitland via j-walk blog
It’s
difficult to say who’s eating who in this snapshot of a struggle
between a Morelet’s tree frog and a cat-eyed tree snake, which lasted
for hours through the night in the tropical forest of Belize. Locked
together in a deadly embrace, neither the kicking tree frog – who you’d
have to say is quite handy – nor the stubborn tree snake showed any sign
of weakening or backing down from the stalemate. In the end it was
photographer David Maitland who gave in and went to bed.
Image: Kerry Roberts via Where Light Meets Dark
If
there was uncertainty in the last shot about whether the tree frog
would get it, there sure isn’t here. What bites you on the nose this
time is that the squealing, splashing frog is getting eaten alive by…
another frog – a cannibalistic green-striped frog to be precise, and one
no larger than its tree-dwelling cousin. Cannibalism is unsettling at
the best of times, but when it’s in your own back garden, it’s really
going to give you a shock – as it did Queensland, Australia resident
Kerry Roberts. Still, it just goes to show: it’s a frog eat frog world.
Source: http://www.speedywap.com/20542/death-in-captured-frames/#more-20542
