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Amazing, yet horrible with a happy ending

Ssthisto said:
My grandparents rescued a couple of hummingbirds from mantids - so I can believe one might go for a small reptile.
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Yah, there's actually a vid on YouTube where a mantis gets a humming bird. I guess they might go after snakes, but I doubt it's a common occurance.
 
patm1313 said:
Yah, there's actually a vid on YouTube where a mantis gets a humming bird. I guess they might go after snakes, but I doubt it's a common occurance.
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So they can catch an animal that flaps its wings 288,000 times an hour (15-18 per/sec), but you don't think it would be common for them to catch a corn snake hatchling in their natural environment. . .!! :laugh01:

Makes sense to me!! :rolleyes:
D80
 
Drizzt80 said:
But of course if some human from Earth walked up and put a mouse in front of a snake and one of them got killed that wouldn't be cruel? Or just cruel depending on which one got hurt?

I find it humorous that whether staged or not, once you see the "evil" that happens in nature it's horrendous, but when you don't see "survival of the fittest" taking place on a daily basis it's okay?!

Nature's beauty is cruel.

D80
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Actually, I do consider it cruel, which is why I buy frozen :D
 
Drizzt80 said:
So they can catch an animal that flaps its wings 288,000 times an hour (15-18 per/sec), but you don't think it would be common for them to catch a corn snake hatchling in their natural environment. . .!! :laugh01:

Makes sense to me!! :rolleyes:
D80
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Lol, to my knowledge it's not common for them to catch a humming bird either. :)
 
patm1313 said:
Lol, to my knowledge it's not common for them to catch a humming bird either. :)
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Actually they will eat anything they can catch. They are by far some of the more vicious creatures you can keep as a pet. I had one in college. We used to catch them all the time.
 
tricksterpup said:
Actually they will eat anything they can catch. They are by far some of the more vicious creatures you can keep as a pet. I had one in college. We used to catch them all the time.
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It's hard for me to associate vicious with something I can squash with my foot... :smash: :smash: :smash:
 
It’s always shocking when the tables turn and the hunter becomes the hunted. :grabbit: The praying mantis has been honored for thousands of years. I know this is off topic :-offtopic but the mantis style of Shaolin kung fu has been a force to recon with. After watching this poor corn get injured, I think we could all use a laugh. Check out this cool video I found on youtube. It’s mantis vs. snake, Jackie Chan style. THIS ONE’S FOR THE SNAKES!!! :dancer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPMYd7aLCEk
 
CRIKEY! said:
It’s always shocking when the tables turn and the hunter becomes the hunted. :grabbit: The praying mantis has been honored for thousands of years. I know this is off topic :-offtopic but the mantis style of Shaolin kung fu has been a force to recon with. After watching this poor corn get injured, I think we could all use a laugh. Check out this cool video I found on youtube. It’s mantis vs. snake, Jackie Chan style. THIS ONE’S FOR THE SNAKES!!! :dancer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPMYd7aLCEk
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You expect me to believe that snake vs. mantis, Chan and "that other guy", would fight like that in their natural environment?! That was obviously a staged fight!!! :sidestep:

:uhoh:
D80
 
Staged…are you kidding me?
This was a documentary where the photographer stumbled across a kung fu mantis master trying to kill a kung fu snake master and it just so happened to be Jackie Chan. What are the chances? And they just happen to be speaking English in this rural Chinese village too.:roflmao:
 
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