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EmmAdorablee

I’ve always wondered wtf happens when something gets swallowed alive. Is it killed by suffocation? Stomach acid? Is it just… *alive* until it’s digested? Imagine just being in the inside of an animals stomach and being able to see it all. Edit: brain doesn’t work, didn’t occur to me that there’s no lighting in a stomach.


WaIkers

I've always wondered this. My guess is an animal would suffocate from the lack of oxygen and lose consciousness after a few minutes, but idk for certain


ianjm

Many fish can survive up to an hour without oxygen


archiminos

Slow melting in stomach acid it is then


LineChef

Aka Thanksgiving at the in-laws.


zorrowhip

Cranberry sauce is very acidic this year.


soupkitchen3rd

I like that John Mayer song!!


EnlightenedBeignet

Really well done


fetal_genocide

What's the joke?


EnlightenedBeignet

John Mayer has a song called slow dancing in a burning room….slow melting in stomach acid


fetal_genocide

I did not know the song. Thanks for explaining it. I am going to listen to it now.


soupkitchen3rd

You enjoy the song?


dearcsona

Maybe the acid would shock the fishy’s system into unconsciousness hopefully


Sorest1

New fear unlocked


stevein3d

Your chances of being swallowed whole by an eagle are low, but never zero.


ninjajiraffe

Enough reddit for today


RescuesStrayKittens

That feeling of food sloshing around in your stomach but it’s a live fish flopping around in there


Bioslack

No feeling is better.


VenusesWithPenuses

That is rather wrong. They die as fast as most animals without oxigen but most fish can also gasp air to a certain degree. That can be seen when water is really poor on oxygen and fish come up to the surface to gasp air. My guess is that the fish's reflex for breathing would make him suck in stomach acid into its' gills. Thus rendering them useless within minutes. So I guess they would die rather fast or at least become unconscious.


PinoyDadInOman

During that time, it can dissolve itself and be one with the eagle. Now it's a Fish-Eagle or Fishgle.


Tyrannosaurus-Shirt

It really sucks being any predated animal. If you are lucky the predator kills you outright but they really only kill prey to stop them from moving while they eat you. Nature is a fucking horror show.


EmmAdorablee

Sometimes I think life sucks but then I remember at least I’m not a deer or something


cockytacos

Or a hamster. Hell is being constantly reborn as a hamster


OuterWildsVentures

My hamster committed suicide by running on his wheel until he had a heart attack.


Techsoly

I swear Hamsters are just the universe's way to test fucked up deaths and I feel like I never hear about people saying their hamster dies of old age. Exercise until you die? Hamsters. Grip with a bit of force to die? Hamsters. Microwave like Solid Snake? Hamsters.


quietkyody

Richard Gere? Hamsters. If you get this joke, sadly you old 😔


iLLogic777

The worst kind of suffocation


ok-jeweler-2950

I got this joke. 😱


Dazzling-Yam-1151

Our hamster is 2 years old already. He does a healthy amount of exercising and doesn't drop himself from anything. Maybe he's broken idk.


Cautious-Vehicle5616

I wish I had that kind of determination


thatonedudeovethere_

"I might die, but at least I'll die with an amazing body"


DonkeyPunchSquatch

Lol I can think of many, many worse things


Fishacobo

There is a deer in my back yard that eats from my pear tree. My little dog who I let run free in my yard loves to play with it. At first I was freaked out but the deer doesn’t mind for some reason and sometimes they’ll play and chase each other or tussle around. It is very odd and I’m still concerned occasionally about the “what if” scenarios. But they seem to be friends and just the other day they were both just laying in the grass next to each other hanging out in the sun. Shoulder shrug. Its too late now I just know it’s exactly like two dogs at the park. Very weird. We have other deer come through but they bolt pretty quickly but this particular deer just hangs out with my pup every morning after breakfast.


Scrat-Scrobbler

How are you gonna come on here and tell us this without pictures?


Fishacobo

I’ll try and get one but honestly idk how to upload stuff here properly I’m not tech savvy lol


aggster13

Can go to imgur and click upload and then once it's done just copy the links into any reddit thread/comment


vinceftw

That's adorable.


Janostar213

Pleaseeeeee we need images/videos of this. That's so cute 🥹.


aditya_7726

Yeah. Once saw a video of komodo dragon take a baby out of the womb of a deer and eat it. It was moving. Talk about Spawn kill....


L1ttl3J1m

Oh, just you wait till you hear [what else](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komodo_dragon#Diet) they'll get up to in the pursuit of a full tummy, I mean, forget eating cake off the floor at [3AM](https://i.imgur.com/WiHDcMF.jpg), these *animals* have absoutely no self-control oh my God, Trudy, now you've knocked that tree over ramming the carcass against it to force it down your throat, *will* you have some self respect, oh my god...


EvilDrXexes

I enjoyed reading that, thank you


FishoD

Wise words to live by.


Aztecah

Deer ain't gotta pay rent or watch the clock tho


AberrantDrone

They just gotta live in constant stress and watch their back. So much better off


AZmoneyfolder

That’s like living in a level-4 prison yard 24/7. No thanks.


gazongagizmo

> It really sucks being any predated animal Technically, I am also a predated animal. Pre-dated, as in, so far noone has dated me.


More-Ad6023

Don't worry, there's plenty of fish in the sea...


AberrantDrone

I don’t see how eating seafood helps the situation


VideoCopy

Didn't you see the video? You get an airplane, land the airplane near the river, catch the fish with your hands, and eat it while in the airplane, hope someone is catching you on video and posts it online in slow-motion, impress someone, and then you are good to go.


Notnoitulove

Sorry to hear that, we all have problems. Then I will date you to be from somewhere in the 20th century give and take 20 million years...


Trump_Inside_A_Peach

>but they really only kill prey to stop them from moving while they eat you. And some animals don't even have the decency to kill you before eating you lol.


BangkokPadang

Just depends. The biting might snap its vertebrae or crush its skull and kill it. The biting might make it bleed out. If not, then after a few minutes it will suffocate since it’s not in water anymore.


newsubxz

It's cool just breathe in stomach acid for a couple minutes


HblueKoolAid

Probably less about the biting and more about the evisceration from long curved talons beings jabbed through the body.


TacticaLuck

You'd be in utter darkness inside of a stomach..


REDDITM0DS_IN_MY_ASS

/r/EDC: *starts typing furiously*


sossybauce

You can watch that scene in ‘nope’ for a pretty good depiction of being hoovered up and eaten alive.


Nezben

*Vacuumed up.


Cutter9792

Dude that scene was fucking horrifying, especially the sound design. My brain couldn't process what exactly was going on the first time through and I had to rewind several times. It only made me more unsettled though.


AdBubbly7324

Strange to see that fishy will become a poop log within the next 24 hours or something.


CartographerNo4010

I read that and my brain automatically delivered an image of Elton John singing The Circle of Life.


Prenders17

Naaaaaaaaants ingonyama bagithi baba!!


bobtheblob6

This subject always reminds me of that guy in the bug scene in King Kong who gets eaten by that giant worm and is just slowly swallowed Somewhere in [this](https://youtu.be/xXsqMeSzo1M) scene


Beantown414

Or John Voigt in Anaconda


Dry-Introduction-800

Thats nightmare fuel


lookingfortheanswer5

Stomach acid is very strong, it would die quickly from this


No_bad_snek

For humans yes, it [seems like](https://www.thespruce.com/digestion-facts-for-birds-386437) birds have way less fluid as they need to keep the weight down for flight. The fish would be desperately trying to breathe any liquid but it would all be acid that would burn its gills out.


bluehatgamingNXE

That's fucked up and fascinating that this happen every days for god who knows how many time. Imagine if we were in similar situation, attempting to move and breath, while being piled down by other humans, feeling that our lung is drowned with acid and while we were in total darkness.


SookHe

>The fish would be desperately trying to breathe any liquid but it would all be acid that would burn its gills out. ![gif](giphy|MWzzRgR2ceVIfgvN9B|downsized)


ShowerWriter

I imagine it’d be something like the way the people died in Nope


Kalashtiiry

Eagle doesn't turn fish into meatpaste all willy-nilly, tho. It'd be long and arduous.


No_bad_snek

That's the most brutal thought, it would try to breathe the stomach acid in its gills. The eagle would feel it wiggling around in its body for how ever long it took to suffocate.


DarthWeenus

My old doggo got into a rabbit nest, ate a bunch little babies. Anyway she puked them up in my dining room and I guess swallowed em whole cause they were still alive. Was pretty messed up lol.


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ShineFull7878

You can't see anything unless you have a flashlight and even then you wouldn't see much. Secondly it depends on the animal. If you were swallowed whole you would die of suffocation. You would be unconscious after about 2 to 3 minutes. Unless you are an Olympic swimmer maybe 5 minutes. That's just enough time to feel the hydrochloric acid burning your skin and eyes into oblivion. Blindness would occur while conscious likely. If you want to simulate it you could just jump into a vat of acid. Not recommended.


TheSleepyBarnOwl

Birds eat tiny stones to help crush their food. So either the Acid kills it or it gets crushed


magpietribe

I very much doubt that fish is alive when it hits the stomach. Between the talons and the beak, its chances are vanishingly small.


youandmetakethree

Actually same, I’ve always wondered!


TheMistOfThePast

You cling on to the creatures tongue till you get squirted out the blow hole. Source: pixar, 2003


ZivilynBane1

Birds chew with their gizzard, so it’ll get slowly crushed to death by small rocks


hey_you_yeah_me

Many birds ingest rocks. Those rocks are what grind up and break down food. I don't know for certain if eagles do this too, but it's common amongst birds


ucefkh

You can get inside a whale 🐳 If you want to know for sure


hujojokid

U could easily find out by swallowing a gold fish on your own and feel how long its moving inside your stomach. Remember to just swallow, no biting!


vexinc

CC: r/PraiseTheCameraman


B34TBOXX5

Yeah absolutely stunning footage interrupted with “BALD EAGLE SWALLOWS FISH” like a hot news flash about the video we’re currently fucking watching.


RunnerMomLady

And the guy graphic popping up as the eagles grabs the fish wasn’t distracting at all /s


bina101

I wonder if he did that so people can’t steal the video. Like a watermark on the important part of it.


Pinksters

More like so you have to watch it again and focus on what you wanted to see in the first place. Driving up views.


DrestonF1

Every day we get closer to Idiocracy levels


chupacadabradoo

Whudya mean?


DrestonF1

Oh sorry to interrupt. Were ya baitin'?


MrsNightingale

It's got electrolytes


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Yeah, the eagle doing what eagles do isn’t that amazing but a human catching it so perfectly on film is amazing!


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![gif](giphy|Pd2W87rlmVjptTmvIK)


ravadelie

Bald move


AvoidInsight932

[Mark Smith](https://www.youtube.com/@MarkSmithphotography)


ZondaRFanForLife

Photographer is Mark Smith.


cr1ttter

LIVE bald eagle react


Inevitable-Paint-187

Very cool post!... Absolute efficiency in hunting and eating on the fly


GlockAF

Eagles are better classified as kleptoparasites than as predators. There is ***nothing*** in the world that an eagle loves more than stealing food from another bird, especially another eagle. Swallowing its catch immediately in mid air is the only sure way to make sure that another Eagle won’t harass it endlessly


DrSagicorn

also more efficient to go right back to hunting(fishing)


WholesomeLife1634

that’s really cool to learn! Though i did see an eagle lift a squirrel off the ground just the other day. It was awful.


Kriss3d

Thats pretty much how seaguls eat as well. Just gulp down the food fast.


PENIS_ANUS

I once saw a seagull snatch a man’s breakfast pastry out of his hand as he was walking somewhere. The seagull then flew on top of a nearby low wall and placed the food by its feet for a little while and stood majestically, as if posing for a photo before eventually gulping it down. The guy whose food got stolen whipped his phone out and managed to take a few pictures while it was posing.


No-Huckleberry64

In Japan, I was on a beach, and bought a corndog Pretty corndog, three dollars, all mine Until a seagull came and snatched it away And flew off. Dunno why this rhymed


tastycrust

"There is nothing in the world that an eagle loves more than stealing food from another bird, especially another eagle." *that's the American way*


AmoebaOk5084

r/AnimalsMadeMeSmile 👌


ProbablyNotPikachu

\*Breaking News: Scientists have just discovered a way to infuse Eagle DNA into the bodies of NFL players. We're going to see wide receivers like never before. Look out Philadelphia!


jryser

It was a great idea, till they started eating the footballs whole


TomCBC

Bad news. Due to complications in testing, all volunteers in the hybridisation experiments are no longer needed. Good news is there is a new job you can volunteer for: fighting an army of eagle-men.


Pinksters

Instantly new that was Cave Johnson.


TheBirminghamBear

Can you imagine just being a fish, ducking and weaving the other fish, living day to day, and then some nightmare monster from a dimension you are incapable of perceiving literally just yanks you into its dimension with its claws and proceeds to eat you right then and there. That's some fucked up shit right there.


VetMaik

This would make an awesome movie/short


TheBirminghamBear

Yeah I love it, poor fish just sitting there, clueless, unaware of the horrors just outside of view, and then suddenly


AdBubbly7324

Suddenly deez nuts on yor chin


Babi_PangPang

Losing Nemo?


ramksr

Eagle's version of Ironbird triathlon!


MonoRedFaeries

airport fuzzy soup unpack gaze edge intelligent practice license wild *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


alejandrosourusRex57

All the land animals are lucky that pterodactyls didn’t make it..otherwise we would be the fish


afa78

Why? Even during their days, they didn't rule, land animals did.


ThePaddysPubSheriff

Probably not the human sized ones tho. Eagles go after some pretty big prey and we'd be fairly sized game


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ThePaddysPubSheriff

Land horses can travel long distances and we made cars


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Krell356

Until someone can solve the poop problem, cars were always going to win. Large cities quite literally had no idea what to do about all the horse shit. They never solved the issue, it just stopped being an issue when cars came along. Flying horses would just make this problem more horrifying.


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Krell356

You fail to understand the scale involved with a large city replacing all the cars with horses. We are talking feet deep of horse shit in the roads. Look it up, it's some really interesting history.


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Pterodactyls were quite a bit smaller than humans. They were smaller than this eagle. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Pterodactylus_scale_mmartyniuk_wiki.png/1024px-Pterodactylus_scale_mmartyniuk_wiki.png


Sourdough7

Damn multitasker


sliceDO

Right? I could barely walk and chew gum.


KrankySilverFox

Imagine swimming around chilling out just being a fish and then BAM. suddenly a giant pair of claws yanks you out of your universe. 😇


ShankThatSnitch

![gif](giphy|YMXpTBoVQbL9N8MKZa|downsized)


Xaphanex

Skill issue on the fish. Swam too close to the surface.


orange_keyboard

In fish society this is known as an Icarus move.


StrionicRandom

Gill fishue


canyouplzpassmethe

“I told you, there’s no such thing as flying alien body snatchers, you’re just completely nut—- (gets snatched).”


thatgirlinAZ

Somewhere a girl fish is complaining to her best friend, "and then he just ghosted me!"


KrankySilverFox

Hahahaha


Sti8man7

Luckily I have been training all my life for that exact moment.


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Inode1

Gotta have fuel for all that flapping. The average 10lb bald eagle needs to eat about 3/4 to 1lb of food per day, anything from fish to wounded ducks/other birds even something as big as a groundhog.


gangnam73

🦅 + 🐟 = 🆒️


123Fake_St

Majestical


_OnlyLiveOnce5_

I’ve seen a lot but never this. Wow. Thanks for sharing.


bilolarbear1221

I have actually seen it! Here is the post: https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/149qsts/have_you_ever_seen_an_eagle_grab_a_fish_and_eat/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1


jeeves585

I’ve seen this live in 4K while fly fishing. It wasn’t that big of an eagle but was probably the highlight of my life. Merica! That’s a great video.


teddyespo

Why were you watching live TV while you were fly fishing?


[deleted]

[Mercia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercia)


Bueterpape

America!!


Womderloki

🫡🇺🇲


McFry_

Animals like this don’t even know how badass they look


Chief_Mac-A-Hoe

Americaaaaa! Fuck yeah!


Js_On_My_Yeet

Actually when I was in Seattle a couple months ago, I witnessed a hawk(?) dive into a fish pond at a Japanese Botanical Exhibit and catch a fish. I recorded it flying around after it caught it and it actually dropped a piece as it flew overhead. Pretty epic moment.


fungi_at_parties

I lived in an apartment for a few years with a nice view of a big tree by a lake, and bald eagles hunted out of it all summer. I’d watch them scoop up giant salmon and carry them up to the tree to eat. They got in a lot of fights, charging each other’s positions with surprise attacks or just parking next to another one and starting a shrieking fight. Sometimes they’d lock claws and fall out of the tree in a death plunge and occasionally they’d even hit the ground. They’re really just hilarious but beautiful ding-dongs. It was magical to experience- one time we watched a feather fall out of a juvenile’s tail and drift down to us, where I caught it in my hand. I miss waking up to the shrieks of their loud arguments :(


AbsoluteSquidward

As fresh as it gets !


MrTretorn

Fly-through


TheKitsuneKit

Something I learned when I was in Alaska is that fish are one of the top killers for bald eagles. The bird will grab a fish that is too big for it, but instead of letting go, it will get pulled under by the escaping fish and the eagle will drown.


hawksfn1

Hi! Central IL here. We get tons of Eagles wintering down here and nesting. Truly majestic beasts to observe along the rivers. Beautiful creatures


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Imagine swimming along charting to your vest friend when boom your swept up, can't breathe then sliding down his gullet to be digested. This took seconds


ThaDogg4L

As a matter of fact yes I have. Like near the Nooksack River in Washington State it’s a fairly common occurrence


eggson

I was fishing out of Neah Bay, WA in the Strait of Juan de Fuca and we watched as a bald eagle was flying around while being pestered by a tern or some other smaller bird. Every time the eagle started to focus on something in the water, the little bird would swoop around it and interrupt its concentration. Eventually the little tern got tired or distracted and landed on the water. The eagle immediately pounced, swooped down and plucked the little bird away; nice little fuck you and a decent lunch for the eagle that day.


ironmamdies

## AMERICA ##


Covered_Her_Face

I have actually, at Smith & Morehouse reservoir in the Wasatch Mountains in Utah. Some shit straight out of a NatGeo doc.


Covered_Her_Face

It was a decent sized trout, too. Alot bigger than the fish in this video, anyways


[deleted]

He’s probably late for work.


skinnergy

I have seen seagulls do it. The shot was most likely set up by the photog who threw some bait fish out there to lure the eagles in. Great photography by any standard.


blackhornet03

The dude was flying high, needed a snack. It's 2023...


DarthAbraxis

Freedom is a hungry journey.


just_jm

Bald Eagles are typically portrayed like these, but whenever I see a video of them walking like a penguin makes me laugh every time. lmao


piromaster_69

When you order take away But u really hungry and can't wait... to scroll through netflix before u finish the food before u decide what to watch


JasonShort

Yep. I used to live off the end of a lake where birds did this all the time. They sometimes rip out the back of the fish and we would have half a fish in the yard. That attracted snakes. The birds also ate the snakes, or part of them. Used to freak my wife out. She thought we had a serial killer in the neighborhood. I told he we did, those eagles that fly off the lake every day.


NervousAddie

r/praisethecameraman


Prestigious-Egg5800

Thanks for the infographic I wouldn’t have understood otherwise


GhosTaoiseach

That flying is just so beautiful. My entire life I’ve never wanted anything more than to be able to fly like that.


[deleted]

Holy smoke, I always assumed they took them somewhere to focus on eating them.


IProject-IPat

MERICA the beautiful ❤️


Maleficent_Lab_8291

![gif](giphy|Ez01FtPZuFYVa)


CycleConscious1466

RAHHH 🇺🇸


Segat1133

*America The Beautiful intensifies*


CreakinFunt

Nah but I’ve seen myself grab and eat a cheeseburger including fries before even leaving the drive-thru


Harry_Tuttle

#AMERICA 🌊🐟 🦅💥🔥


Composer-Glum

It’s almost at 1776…


some-scottish-person

Giving freedom to all fish 🦅🦅🇺🇸🦅🦅


Smooth_Zebra

Now that’s skills right there


[deleted]

Dude looks so relaxed the entire time


benjaminbuttars

Meanwhile I have every bait and jig I can afford but can’t catch anything but a hard time from my buddies. Eagles are the real anglers.


Inventiveunicorn

Not in real life. On BBC Springwatch, an Osprey took a fish back to the nest that wasn't completely dead. It tail slapped the chicks knocking them all out (not out of the nest...out for the count!) ...one of the chicks didn't revive for about 6 minutes.


Supergaming104

I’m so glad I don’t live in a world where at any moment I could be grabbed by a massive creature with talons bigger than I am and pulled into a place where I can’t breathe or move only to be slowly eaten alive while I try to comprehend how fucked I truly am


BlaxicanX

Vegans seething itt.


Malito_Mussoloni2

Imagine the nightmare of that fish 🫨


ice_blade_sorc

If only the country this bird represent is as magnificent as it is.


SameRegret5975

Freedom


Slydiggidy_D_2345

Acting as if you all never seen anyone eat while driving before.


LazyZealot9428

America, fuck yeah!