In this pictures gallery I am sharing some great shots taken by professional photographers showing animals eating each other.
Warning: you may find the final image in this gallery disturbing
This picture captures the food chain in one shot as a heron tries to gobble a snake that is eating a fish.
A three and a half meter shark that was almost bitten in half by a large great white shark in Brisbane, Australia. The great white, believed to be at least six meters long, has been dubbed Jaws by locals and visitors.
A crocodile strays too close to a mother hippo and her calves among a group of 50 hippos bathing in the Serengeti national park, Tanzania. The crocodile was killed in the battle that ensued.
A 15ft saltwater crocodile eats a shark on the Wildman River, Northern Territory, Australia.
A Nile Crocodile swallows a freshwater fish tail first in Kruger National Park.
A green anaconda suffocates and then eats a common caiman in the Lianos National Park of Venezuela.
An Olive python attempts to drag its dinner – a wallaroo – up a sheer gorge in Kimberly, Western Australia.
An Olive Python which ate a Maltese terrier in the town of Katherine in the Northern Territory. The dog weighed 5.8kg, more than half the snake’s own weight.
A toad eats venomous snake – believed to be a banded krait – which had tried to attack it at Qingcheng Mountain park in Sichuan, China.
A hungry King snake saw something moving and went for it – not realizing it was its own tail. The snake’s owner took the snake to vet Rob Reynolds at Seers Croft Veterinary Surgery, Nr Crawley, Sussex, who managed to dislocate its jaw.
A gull snatches up a mallard duckling at Slimbridge Wildfowl Reserve, Gloucestershire.
And the ones that got away… A hungry praying mantis pounces on a tree frog. But the tiny frog managed to leap to safety – even though the mantis had started eating its leg.
A seal has a lucky escape as a killer whale known as Mel lunges for it on a beach in Patagonia.
A Stingray leaps out of the water as it is hunted by a Killer Whale whose fin can be seen below the Ray.
A mouse steals food from under the nose of a leopard at the Santago Rare Leopard Project in Hertfordshire.
A male polar bear carries the head of a polar bear cub it killed and cannibalized, north of the Canadian town of Churchill.
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