Comments on: Unlucky Rabbit Becomes Heron’s Meal

By: abdul

abdul — Sun, 29 May 2011 17:42:21 +0000

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.

By: Francie Griffith

Francie Griffith — Sat, 28 May 2011 02:02:34 +0000

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.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 18 May 2011 19:31:56 +0000

Looks like a wild, juvenile black rabbit to me – not someone’s pet.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 04 May 2011 21:08:03 +0000

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.

By: LOL

LOL — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 03:55:43 +0000

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.

By: Better Photoshopper Than This

Better Photoshopper Than This — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 04:27:29 +0000

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!

By: Sacred Nature

Sacred Nature — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 21:06:15 +0000

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!

By: jennifer

jennifer — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 05:32:00 +0000

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.

By: Moocow

Moocow — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:35:37 +0000

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

By: dont_belive_it

dont_belive_it — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 04:56:04 +0000

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

By: tripplenigger

tripplenigger — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:26:36 +0000

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.

By: oscar

oscar — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 02:42:24 +0000

i agree with cossette, its someones pet vs a random wild animal, you are sick

By: Cossette

Cossette — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:29:11 +0000

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.

By: bob

bob — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:23:18 +0000

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.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:50:29 +0000

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!

By: Sara

Sara — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:19:34 +0000

The sad part is is that was not a wild rabbit. That was a domestic rabbit.

By: Abby

Abby — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:19:50 +0000

poor rabbit it herts me to see that but the bird has to eat to to.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:06:07 +0000

Photoshop?

By: Brit

Brit — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:31:07 +0000

thats so crazy! interesting though.. i didnt know they did that

By: Miko

Miko — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:16:38 +0000

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 >_<