Pat, Lick and Eat!

I spied this hilariously set of cheetahs getting up to no good on Facebook somewhere. It looks like they’ve made friends with a baby gazelle / impala, patted them with friendly paws (to show friendship), licked them (for taste of course) and then had them for lunch. Nature at its finest.

Cornered Leopard tries to eat man, scalps him

The Karate Kid's 'wax on , wax off' mantra finally was useful for Hari

Cornered Leopard tries to eat man, scalps him

Part of an Indian man's scalp was ripped off by a wild leopard after it panicked and attacked four people when it wandered into a residential area in India.

The fully-grown leopard set upon the group when it walked into a house in a busy neighbourhood of Guwahati, a large city in north-east India.

The gentleman above is apparently a cook named Hari, whose scalp was severely cut as he tried to fend off the leopard. That man deserves a beer.

Apparently a quick witted fellow managed to shut the sharp clawed leopard inside the house before forest officials came to sedate the beast.

Hari was taken to hospital for injuries to his head and face, while the leopard was taken to a zoo for observation. "We believe the cat strayed into the area from a nearby hillock, maybe in search of food," a forest department official said.

So not really the case of a leopard eating a man but more of a scared animal lashing out. Perhaps a lesson there for all of us.

Leopards are usually much more clever - here's one from Africa that's put an impala in a tree for eating later.

Impala put in a tree by a leopard for later

Kiwiblog's DPF has been having a holiday in Africa - here's a cool picture he took of an impala having a sleep in a tree. How cute!

It's not actually,  the baby impala is dead and was put in the tree by a leopard for safe keeping so it could come back for a feed later on. How clever!

The photo was taken in Chobe National Park in Botswana.

While the leopard that caught this impala seems to be pretty smart, I'm more impressed with this leopard that took down a crocodile...

Elvis the Crocodile eats a lawnmower!

Elvis the Crocodile tried to eat his keeper but took a lawnmower instead....

A hungry saltwater crocodile named Elvis with an apparent affinity for household machinery charged at an Australian reptile park worker before stealing his lawn mower.

"Before we knew it, the crocodile had the mower above his head," Tim Faulkner a witness said.

"He got his jaws around the top of the mower and picked it up and took it underwater with him."

The reptile workers quickly left the crocodile's space. Elvis appeared to enjoy his newly aquired mower and sat guarding it until he was bribed with some Kangroo meat to give up.

Check out these other crocodile stories:

• Brutus the Crocodile tries to eat a boat of tourists
• Crocodiles try to eat Zebra and Wildebeast
• Crocodile tries to eat a baby elephant

Tick eats man's ear!

Check out this picture of a tick inside a man's ear dining on the parts in his ear canal!

The Herald reports that the doctor "inserted a fibre-optic endoscope video into the man's outer ear canal and found the parasite, about 3 to 4mm long, with its eight legs wedged on the eardrum.

The tick, which had been feeding on blood from inside the ear, had caused extensive bruising. It was also "tightly attached" and wouldn't budge, even after framycetin drops were used to try to dislodge it. Mr Hornibrook anaesthetised the vet's ear and dragged the tick out with a small hook" which apparently made every thing tickety-boo!

The World's Biggest Snakes

The World's Biggest Snakes

Everyone loves a good snake story. If it's not a kangaroo being pulled up a cliff by a python or a two headed albino snake being discovered, it's a crocodile vs python battle in the Everglades that's being told. So it's with no surprise that the biggest snakes are the most popular of all the snakes. It's probably because they seem the most dangerous - and let's face it, these giant snakes are dangerous because they could eat you all in one go!

The massive python in the above picture was apparently found somewhere in Indonesia and measured 30 foot long. That's a huge ass snake!

Seven men to hold this snake!

This giant man-eater decided to attack an electric fence. That was alive with electricty. The result was never going to be in doubt as the snake got tangled up and basically electrocuted himself to death. Look at those teeth! That's another reason to be scared of snakes - once one of these bad boys has your leg in his hungry mouth, it's not coming out in a hurry. Perhaps the snake was trying to turn himself into an electric eel?

This huge snake was killed by the dam construction workers in Nam Theuan Hinboun (hydro power plant) in Khammuan province, Laos. One worker supposedly lost life to this monster...but that could be the stuff of myths and legends!

Here's a massively yellow / albino python running round in someone's apartment. At Animals Eating Animals we have a fond appreciation for albino snakes. Or maybe it's just Britney Spears. Our editor gets confused.

Underwater action

Some journalists are balsy. Like the guys that got Deep Throat to talk. Others are just insane and will run round underwater taking photos of dudes taking photos of giant snakes. If you aint paying for the photo session.... you're bait!

Huge Cobra?

I have no idea about the picture above, is it some kind of huge cobra? If it is, I'm sure even the Cobra Commander would be happy with the size of that thing!

Well kanga clearly missed out on boxing lessons and lost the round to this giant olive python. The strength of that python is something to behold. I have no idea if it got the Kangaroo up to the ledge but whatever, an A for effort Mr Python.

Orca captures a seal from an iceberg

Help!

I think this picture of an orca taking a seal and dragging it into the water to drown it and eat came from a tv show fronted by Richard Attenborough. It's not very often (if ever!) that Animals Eating Animals has brought readers (hi Mom!) such a cute picture of an animal about to be eaten in a watery grave!

This photo was apparently the result of   three hour team hunt in which the entire pod or Orca co-operated in order to make giant waves that washed the seal from its ice floe, and then did side swipes with their tail, blew bubbles, rolled the ice floe and then eventually dragged the seal to its death.

These methods were apparently employed as a training exercise for the younger members of the Orca pod but is also to ensure that the seal too exhausted too turn round and attack his attackers back. Cos seals can be big mean bastards too!

The famous Captain Robin Falcon Scott witnessed these hunts over 100 years ago and scientists today think that they may be the most complex team hunts in the natural world. Except for a pack of cougars out on the tiles at your local bar.

Orca don't always win - here's a picture of a baby seal getting away from an Orca attack!

Cats eating rats and mice!

I wonder what mouse pate would taste like?

So my wife and I got a new cat. She's a lovely stray and we call her Venus. Yes, Venus rythmes with Doremius. Venus was a stray from the SPCA and appeared to be a very nervous cat. However on her second night of staying with us she decided she loved us and chose to demonstrate that love by placing a mouse at the foot of the bed. We think she's a keeper and for her mouse catching prowess, this page of cats eating rats and mice is dedicated to her.

Mouse go crunch!

Could I get some sauce for this mouse please?

Sometimes it doesn't work out well for the cat

Cats are often known to play with their food

Even ginger cats get to eat rats

Sharks are the bomb! Or how they ate the sailors of the USS Indianapolis

USS Indianapolis

By now in your life you must have seen the movie Jaws. It's quite possibly one of the best movies in movie making history and it certainly has one of the best characters to ever captain a boat in a movie. As the shark hunting lads settle in one night after a hard day's shark chasing, Captain Quint tells a story. Probably one of the most chilling stories a kid could ever hear about.....

The USS Indianapolis was a vessel in the United States Navy. She holds a famous place in history due to the circumstances of her sinking, which led to the greatest single loss of life at sea in the history of the U.S. Navy. On 30 July 1945, shortly after delivering critical parts for the first atomic bomb that was to be dropped on Japan, the Indianapolis fell victim to a torpedo from a Japanese submarine. Of 1,196 crewmen aboard, approximately 300 men went down with the ship.

The remaining crew of 880 were cast into the briny deep. Only 316 sailors survived their time in the water. If the remainder didn't drown, they faced the horrible death of being eaten by the sharks that found them.

It's thought that the Indianapolis sinking resulted in the most shark attacks on humans in a single incident in history. It's figured the majority of the sharks were oceanic whitetip shark species. Tiger Sharks might have also killed and eaten some of the survivors.

The drowning sailor loving Oceanic whitetip shark

Imagine being huddled in a large group of people, injured from the sinking, suffering from exposure or hypothermia, hungry and dying of thirst AND you have to worry about the circling sharks! It must have been terrible.

After 4 days the group of sailors was noticed by a US plane patrolling the area. It turns out the US Navy had not realised the Indianapolis had been sunk!

Crocodiles eating fish, sharks and the odd bird

Piranha III: Revenge of the Crocodiles

Crocodiles eating fish, sharks and the odd bird

Crocodiles don't need to spend all day lying in wait for baby elephants to get them selves a feed - all they have do is swim around the river catching fish. Fish are a good source of protein so it's natural for a crocodile to want to lock his jaws on a tasty morsel of piranha or shark!

Chomp Chomp

Here's a picture of an Australian crocodile eating a bullshark that had the misfortune had to swim up the river where danger lurked....

Bird munching

Crocodile eating a crunchy crab

Crocodile dining on a pelican

Here's a crocodile that's caught a shark and has chosen to eat it on the side of the muddy river bank.