The big fish gobble up the little fish

Interesting video clip here:

A BBC crew filmed seabirds carefully corralling unwieldy shoals of herring into tightly packed "bait balls" from which the fish are easy to pluck.

But they discovered that passing whales would wait for the birds to complete their hard graft before devouring the ball of fish in a single gulp.

Must have been a shock for the camera crew the first time it happened.

Posted by David on March 18, 2009 8:38 AM