This alarming photo shows a rainbow trout fingerling peering from the mouth of a northern pike as it is about to be eaten. The unsettling scene was captured in January 2001 at an aquarium in Anchorage, Alaska, by Jim Lavrakas.
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Uh, bullshiat. I saw this photo years ago. It’s a photoshop. Fish swallow other fish head-on, as they have these structures called fins, which don’t fold up against the body otherwise.
Bullshiat to your bullshiat. Fish eat other fish regardless of body orientation. Little fish tries to swim off, big fish says “oh nay nay” and sucks him in.
Fark ya both, they only eat them in a perpendicularly haphazard manner with a half-twist of lime! I see NO lime!
LOL WUT?
that is a real photo, won an award a few years back
that is a real photo, it won an award a few years ago!!!!
you’re all wrong. the little one is a Dax and it is a symbiant inhabiting the larger Pike. It retains all the memory of previous pikes and the new host will be known as Pike Dax.
POOR LITTLE TROUT!
There’s always a bigger fish.
My saltwater lion fish used to eat baby goldfish and they would be in his mouth the same way. They’d sit there a while until the really gross part where my lion fish would commence to grinding it up and if you pressed your ear to the aquarium, you could hear it. The photo is real.
The small fish is the big fish’s baby. This photo is real.
You are all eejits. This is the new CIA fish gun, a gun that is a fish that shoots fish. Brilliant isnt it? Just wait till you see next years Bear gun
Captain Sparkles, that wuz da funniest post so far. You are one sick guppy,er, puppy.
I’m very happy about all you folks coming over here and commenting on this photo. I’m just intrigued – where did you see a link to this?
Matthew (aka Z-letter)
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Welcome to you all – now go and see this NOT PHOTOSHOPPED fish pic on the front page of the Z-letter!
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I have absolutely nothing worthwhile to add to the commentary so obviously I shall post here.
Wow. So this is why fish have teeth? I think the commenter way at the top is right. Where’s the lime?
Ignorant gaijin! It’s obviously the sushi version of turducken
I heard that the smaller fish shoots bee’s out of its mouth.
God I love farkers. I’m totally torn between the Bear Gun and the half twist of lime. I’m gunna have to go with both.
Picture of the mirror or it didn’t happen, cause isn’t there an image of an even smaller fish within the mouth of the little fish?
I’ve got to vote for Pike Dax. golden.
I cn tel itz fotochopt cuz of da pixls. I agre wit guynoir.
Yo, dawg. I heard you like fish, so we put a fish in your fish so you could fish while you fish!
Brilliant!!
Yo dawg, I herd you liek fish…..
my oscar (12inch long) used to suck the little fish in and out a few times, just playing with them i think, before crunching them up. i saw this view many times.
so i herd u liek mudkipz?
I can’t believe the incredible ignorance of random people, lol. Does no one know anything about fish? Many species harbor their fry (offspring) in their mouth. The big fish is the mother of the small fish, and it’s protecting it, not eating it.
God I hope the stupidity on display here is just some kind of internet gag that I missed, lol.
keep it clean, Hammer…