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Some toothy tigerfish have been documented catching unlikely prey in the most unlikely of ways: snatching birds right out of the sky.
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How to Catch a Bird… If You’re a Fish
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fish that swallow swallow
Imagine a fish using an iPad to learn from the waves and lights course to improve its hunting abilities 😂 Knowledge and understanding really does improve your general success in life.
Look up blue planet 2 giant trevally if you want to see a bird eating fish. It’s probably pretty close
Footage ? : )
This reminds me of a funny story I once heard: I was talking to a farmer once and he once saw one of his chickens sitting in the lake (chickens usually dont like going into water but his would occasionally walk into the water to look for bugs and occasionally they'd just float around for awhile if they got in too deep) and he saw one of them suddenly got pulled under for a few seconds before popping back to the surface before flapping like crazy and scrambling back onto shore. He figures that it must have been tasted by a cat fish because a bass or a trout wouldnt have the power or weight to pull a chicken under the water like that, and once it realized the chicken wasn't a dead animal or another fish it let go of the bird.
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So that's why I can't get coconuts? Tiger Fish are eating African Swallows?
.... uh, I feel bad for those swallows and the songbirds that sharks eat. How could they ever expect this?
Can you see a tiger fish fin-ishing a brilliant course.
If it is an artificial lake, then introducing some pret fish for the tiger fish would be a good thing to do. Also, it would be important to get prey fish that would not damage the ecosystem surrounding the artificial lake in case anything escapes.
African or European?
Wels catfish in Spain lunge up onto shore to capture and eat ducks on shore
Holy hell. Nature is bad ass
Nom nom nom
What's the average speed of a unlanden swallow?
Cool
It makes me wonder why swallows don't fly higher.
No images of the real birds and fish? No footage of the hunt?
River Monsters dude caught a Tiger fish it looked terrifying
Where did you get the map render you used to show the dam's location? It's beautiful
Giant Trevally do that too, but they look more cool than tiger fish, they even arrive on the shallows just in time for the fledgling chicks. They showed it on "Blue Planet II" with David Attenborough's sexy narration.
Absolutely amazing
Here's what you came to see: oh wait, they don't actually show a video of that, sorry.
😳😱😳 OMG. They also get sad 😢😭 when we we fish their friends and family. Science said so. They might be conscious to some extent. Ahhhh. But they so yummy 😋🤤
in a place in i think it was italy, catfish hunt pigeons so yea
Eventually those fishes are just gonna decide to walk on land.
I was looking at the eagle and imagine it having a field day near that lake. Just let the fish come to you.
For the algorithm.
When pray fights back
Clickbait title - fish can't read..........
Make a video to show fish how to use ALfirst and find this video
This could put the tiger-fish in danger as the fish eagle is very common throughout sub Saharan Africa.
ofc it's Tigerfish
A fish going birding. Nice.
Thanks for the comment
Fascinating! First they learn how to compensate for water refraction... then they start fashioning bone and beak tools.... then they make fire....
Thanks for the comment
Open Now "Tigerfish School of advance refraction study and Postgraduation in Swallow technique"
I was recently considering turning into a fish (for personal reasons) but I really liked eating birds, so I was concerned about giving that up. So this video came just in the nick of time. Thanks Scishow!
Thanks for the comment
I have seen on film of Tigerfish eating Birds in the Congo River.
Wait wtf, I scrolled down to comments before the video started just to read the jokes. But then I scrolled up and it wasn't Hank. This dude was talking for like a full 30 seconds and I didn't even know it wasn't Hank.
The fish that compensated for refraction got it's course from Brilliant and now you can too 😜
south Africa im never going back to south Africa
Sometimes, I like to Fill UP my Bathtub with Milk, lay in the Fetal Position and pretend that I'm a Cheerio.
since when was Hank asian???
Does SciShow have a mandatory hand talking policy?
That’s so wild.
Archerfish solved this problem too. They are able to project s stream of water from their heads with such force that it breaks the surface, and can knock small insects off the vegetation overhanging the water.
The refraction is less of an effect, the greater the angle subtended between line of sight and the water surface. Attacking from deeper reduces this angle resulting in a greater success rate. Angler fish, by the way, have solved the problem of attacking insects from near the surface.
So they’ve learned the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
This was a sales video. To see the real footage buy their product. Sorta like Timeshare sales.
If an eagle gets eaten by a fish, I don't think that stupid eagle deserves to breed. Survival of the fittest, not dumb birds that get caught by fish.😋
@Plus Any bird that gets eaten by shark, I will give a 'pass', fair enough.
But what if it was a big ass shark ? They're fishes too, after all.
wtf
European pike eats baby ducks on a regular basis.
Can you add a Turkish subtitle option? please
"The early bird, gets the worm." "The early fish, gets the bird."
Show up late and do your thing as a normal human being when all the animals have eaten each other.
There is another difficulty for fish swimming just below the surface; higher water resistance, making for slower swimming.
I read the thumbnail as trigger fish instead of tiger fish and I thought it was gonna be that one that hunts insects with a jet of water but large enough to take down a bird!
imagine being a bird and losing to FISH....
What puzzles me is what they do afterwards. How do they, er, swallow?
. Just wit till you see the goliath tigerfish
Nice 👌
What do you mean it's not evolved to catch birds? Those teeth look like a bird cage to me.
Stefan needs to teach the fishes how to sign up for NordVPN 1st to access Brilliant from their SA lake.
Give the fish a bird, the fish is full for a day. Teaching the fish physics....
When you're hungry, you'll find food wherever you can, even if it's flying through the air... :P
Does it seem fishy that a fish could swallow a swallow?
Couldn't get any footage?
Do they develop the same eye modifications as archer fish?
Trevally says Hi!
When the birds are gone they will prey on gazelles.
Only this channel could suggest a brilliant class for fish and make it make sense.
What a segue to the sponsor message 🤣
I'm now convinced that everything with tiger in its name is born crazy!
Interesting that they don't stock the lake with natural prey.
Oh, god, fish eating birds is just so _wrong_ and _backwards._
Simple solution- just get the tiger fish to eat the Eagles! "Welcome to the hotel Calif..... AAARGH!"
super smooth segway
once when my friends were talking and one of them said a joke everyone else were laughing. I didnt get it but i still laughed why did i laugh at something i didnt get it?
Evolution man
What ever happened to olivia???? Bring her back!!!
Fish watching this video like 👁 👄 👁
This is the kind of stuff that jumpstarts rapid evolution. 3 times the pressure on hunting, increased pressure from predation, and a noticeable margin in success between individuals fron which natural selection can select victors. I would not be surprised if, a few decades or so down the line, this population develops significant divergence from the average norm in adaptation to the push towards hunting non aquatic prey, such as better eyes, and more effective surface water camouflage to prevent prey from seeing them before they lunge. Perhaps their teeth might become more suited for handling birds, like being sharper and more curved.they may even reduce in size to compensate for the less abundant food and need to lunge from the water to catch prey, as a lighter fish can jump higher.
Ok, Stefan, the transition from subject to advertisement was the smoothest and most relevant I've seen yet. And, l have seen a lot, even on this channel. Bravo.
River Monsters had the Tiger fish on multiple episodes because it's so nasty. Just a tremendously dangerous fish.
Flying fish when?
How the tables have turned.
those birds are so damn fast too
Giant Trevelly do the same 👌🏼 but with seabirds and out in the open ocean
Tiger's aren't the only fish that hunt birds. Catfish all over the world will prey on birds also!
Predation from eagles doesn't sound like a bad thing, however if they start luring in and ganging up on eagles then that might be a problem. But humans can just introduce prey fish to stop this.
nero?
Yah, Tigerfish subscribing to brilliant.
Do you swallow? Tigerfish: yes.
Bird: haha I can fly and you can't do anything about it Fish: eats the bird mocking him To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
They ate 300 swallows. Were they African swallows, or European swalliws, and were they carrying coconuts?
"hey light, Get Bent!"
Tigerfish to Archerfish: "can i copy your answer to our physics homework on 'refraction'...?"
I'm impressed that you correctly used a Fish Eagle image instead of a Bald Eagle image.
The eagle is just getting revenge for it's bro fallen in combat.
WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY, how does it feel when they catch you? - joker fish