Though it took place in a zoo the video below definitely shows some wild behavior. If you don’t want to see a bird killed and eaten then don’t watch it. (Instead may I recommend some cuteness?) If you have the stomach for nature, red in tooth and claw, then watch away!
Crazy, no?
Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy and Desmond Shearwater. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.
Lucky the lion didn’t lose an eye. Fascinating.
Can you imagine going to a zoo and witnessing that? Pretty amazing. Sad, yet amazing. Poor Heron. Hope his buddies learned from him. That’s alot of lions in one exhibit. Seems like alot to control for the keepers. At least the lions had some excitement for the day. Thanks for sharing.
What a video! You can see how that lioness sees her chance and immediately stalks through the logs and rocks in the exhibit to catch the heron. On a similar, less dramatic note, I once saw a Black Bear catch and eat a rat at the Buffalo Zoo.
And I once observed 2 Great Blue Herons in the San Diego, CA environs standing in a field picking off ground squirrels as they exited their dens.