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Unlucky Rabbit Becomes Heron’s Meal
Herons are not known for preying small mammals but these intelligent birds are known to adapt flexibility in their feeding habits and in this case the cutesy bunny just got unlucky.
The little rabbit was drowned in the water which also makes the rabbit more slippery to down into the heron’s throat. It’s interesting to see the cycle of life in nature but its pretty disturbing to see birds that should be eating fish taking a taste of small land mammals. Perhaps the photographer should have rescued it instead of just observing but then again the heron would probably just look for another prey.
3 more pics of the unlucky rabbit after the jump.
Source: Eyje
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July 5th, 2008 at 8:48 am
poor rabbit, before this i have seen a video a rabbit dodge attack from flying eagle .
You are just like father. When he watch a deer or ox attacked by the lion or tiger.
He will said why dont they fight back use their horn or kick the lion back hhehe.
For me it just a circle of nature. The tiger, lion and crocodile will balance the quantity of other grass eater
I HOPE MY FACTS IS RIGHT
July 5th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
That’s not a very convincing photoshop job… cute bunny, though.
July 5th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
i’ve added this to eyje first with “unlucky rabbit “title. there has to be a link to the original post. Hemmy is a blog that i respect. Probably they forgot.
July 5th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Hi specto, added the original post link. I left it out in the first place because this looks like forward mail material since eyje is another community sharing website (photos taken from sources not listed etc). Anyway will add the link back in the future. Thanks for the voice out.
July 5th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Thank You Katana, i’m a real hemmy fan and it’s all about hemmy’s incomparable posts. And i know that you really overrate sources, thanks again for your courtesy. Have a nice weekend.
July 11th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
did the bird drown the rabbit first? or was the rabbit already drowned?
100% bizzare
August 17th, 2008 at 1:16 am
Herons are absolute bastards we had a golfish pond and a heron kept eating our goldfish we’d come out to se a giant bird flying away with one in its beak >_<
September 20th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
thats so crazy! interesting though.. i didnt know they did that
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:06 am
Photoshop?
April 17th, 2010 at 12:19 am
poor rabbit it herts me to see that but the bird has to eat to to.
August 5th, 2010 at 4:19 am
The sad part is is that was not a wild rabbit. That was a domestic rabbit.
September 10th, 2010 at 1:50 am
Sara, could you please explain why it is especially sad that it is a domestic animal? This seems like a strange way of thinking. I agree that this is just the reality of the food web. It is survival of the fittest out there so kudos to the heron for being such a good opportunisit!
October 1st, 2010 at 1:23 am
Wow, that is weird. Speaking as a Photoshop professional, and looking at all 4 photos, it really doesn’t look like a photoshop trick to me. As for the “poor bunny” idea, we human animals in our cozy safe lives conveniently forget that the vast majority of wild animals die painful, horrifying deaths– often killed (either quickly or slowly) by other animals and eaten.
November 3rd, 2010 at 6:29 am
It is not wild, It is a domestic. This bunny may have been pulled from someones yard or hutch by the heron and brought to a safer place for it to kill and consume. It may have been someone’s pet. That is why it matters. What if it was your small dog or cat. The heron is quite cabable of killing those as well.
I raise American Dutch and Norwegian Dwarf rabbits watching a bun die is very sad.
November 8th, 2010 at 10:42 am
i agree with cossette, its someones pet vs a random wild animal, you are sick
December 14th, 2010 at 6:26 am
I would love to see that with some toy dog breed. >:3 I just hate those vicious mutants, they are a disgrace to momma nature.
December 15th, 2010 at 12:56 pm
this is a bad attempt at a photoshop hoax im a graphic artist and I can spot a photoshop job a mile away. will fool alot of kids maybe..but you would think the author has better things to do than put out false information about birds. this heron definatly did NOTeat a rabbit
December 17th, 2010 at 5:35 pm
Guys, this is real – it also was not a domestic rabbit
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/3352517/Heron-catches-rabbit-Dramatic-photos.html
January 1st, 2011 at 1:32 pm
I work with herons and other wild birds and herons do indeed eat rabbits. They are carnivores that eat anything they can catch. We have herons brought in dead with prey so huge it kills them going down. They arent shy about eating a big meal. I think some of the photoshop “experts” need to leave the closet and get out into nature a bit more.
January 7th, 2011 at 5:06 am
I see nothing sad about it. It doesn’t matter if it’s a domestic rabbit or not. Prey is prey. It’s nature. It’s predator vs prey. It’s a fact of life. Get over it. Humans are worse because they kill for no resound. Predators kill for survival. Big difference.
If you don’t want your pet or livestock to be eaten by a predator, then do a better job of keeping your animals away from predators. Use guard dogs for general protection against most predators. Guard ducks are good for protecting your chickens. Use donkeys for protecting horses, sheep & cattle. Fences can help keep out wolves & bison. Also put a fence cover over your pond to protect your goldfish and koi from cats, raccoons, possums, dogs & herons. Fox urine repels squirrels, rats, mice & other rodents. Cats are great at hunting mice & rats. All these natural solutions work great and can better your life and your pets/livestock lives too.
By the way, great photos!
February 25th, 2011 at 12:27 pm
Wow, what a FAKE! I will admit for a moment I was startled. Then I thought about the first picture, how the heron barely has the thing by the ear. And the second picture, gravity should flop the rabbits hind over into the water. The third, the birds beak is not seen on the top of the rabbit. The fourth is really the most “convincing” – if the others wern’t done so recognizably. As was said before – it’ll fool kids and a lot of adults – but it’s FAKE!
April 10th, 2011 at 11:55 am
It’s not a fake yah fucktards. Smh; seriously?
^ Guy above me obviously can’t think spatially.
I’ve seen a great heron eat a larger fish than that poor thing.
May 5th, 2011 at 5:08 am
As a Photoshop professional, I think it’s fascinating that as a society we no longer know what reality looks like, because we’re so used to fakes. I see people on blogs all the time criticizing artist’s work as “looking fake”. If we can convince ourselves that real images are “fake”, apparently EVERYTHING looks fake.
I think the series of images showing the bird swallowing the rabbit pretty much prove its authenticity.
May 19th, 2011 at 3:31 am
Looks like a wild, juvenile black rabbit to me – not someone’s pet.
May 28th, 2011 at 10:02 am
I grew up in Florida. Herons and other birds of prey eat things very large. And what idiot thinks they can tell wild rabbits from tame ones? “DOMESTIC” PLEASE define domestic…domestic dogs are all derived from wolves, and those traits show more in some than others. Rabbits are all the same, we GOT them from the wild! Did you think there was a cute critter factory in Japan or something we got our house pets from? As a graphic artist who utilizes both photoshop and paintshop pro in my work, I have to say you’d have to be an idiot with no idea what animals do in nature to call this a fake. Stupid sheltered city kids from the great white North think everything southern is fake, lol.
May 30th, 2011 at 1:42 am
i don’t know it’s real or fake.
heron eat small birds and animals.(rabbits, rats, snake, ducks chicks)
eagle eat herons babies, (than heron’s population will be controlled)
there’s food chain in living things , lion, wild cats can eat eagle, vulture and big birds.
big birds eat small animals and birds ,
small animal eat grass, leaves .
if animals, big birds don’t eat small one than every living things population will increase.
small will increase big will dead.