Changjiang Jun: When everyone is fishing in the river, they should have seen water birds such as egrets catching fish, and the whole process is very efficient.
Egrets have sharp claws and sharp mouths, and indeed they are predators at the top of the river food chain, but they may be planted on the seemingly inconspicuous river mussels.
Recently, in a small rural river in Chongqing, there was a scene of "sandpipers competing for fishing and profits" - a river mussel "bit" the long leg of an egret to death, and the egret could not get out of trouble, and finally both were picked up by nearby compatriots.
01 Sandpiper Clams Compete FisherWohnung Deli Real Version?
According to Yang Changjiangjun, this is a scene that happened in a small rural river in Chongqing's Dazu District, and when the fellow passed nearby, he found that something was "fluttering" at the water's edge.
When he looked over, it was a white water bird "toeing" at the water's edge, struggling non-stop, looking trapped by something.
“...... It kept running on the ground (mudflat by the river), but it couldn't get rid of it, couldn't escape, so I picked it up at once. ”
The fellow was surprised to find that this egret was actually caught by a large river mussel (Yangtze River Jun: it looks very heavy), and even could not fly away, nor could he break free, and was immediately caught by the fellow.
The river mussels were heavy, and the egrets could not fly at all
02 Netizens: Sandpiper Clams Compete fishermen deli real version!
After this strange scene was filmed by nearby passers-by and uploaded to social media, it was also quickly spread, and many netizens left messages for hot discussion.
Among them, the most popular comment is "It turns out that the sandpiper clams compete for fishing and profit is true!" "Sandpiper Clams Fight Fisherwoman Deli Real Version!" "The ancients did not deceive me" and so on.
Netizen comments
ChangJiangjun: This scene is indeed quite unusual, after all, in the impression of ordinary people, the egret is fast and sensitive, and the wild fish, loach and other slippery aquatic people in the water cannot escape its predation.
The river mussel has almost no mobility (the river mussel can only move slowly and hard with its axe foot), and I did not expect to be able to actually "catch" the water bird.
Slippery loach also can't escape the predation of egrets - infographic
Therefore, some netizens expressed curiosity, how did this scene happen?
Why is it that the egret, which is at the top of the food chain in a river ecosystem, is "caught" by the seemingly "lowest" river mussel?
03 Changjiang Jun: This may be a predatory behavior
Water birds that are good at preying on wild fish, shrimp and crabs are caught by "clumsy" river mussels, which some people think is only because water birds accidentally step on river mussels while walking along the river.
But Changjiang Jun once heard an older generation of fishermen say that "sandpiper clams compete" is not a coincidence, but that river mussels are "deliberate" – and an act of predation.
River mussels open mussel shells, which can trap small aquariums - with pictures
In other words, the river mussel opening the river mussel in the river may be a predatory strategy, attracting small fish and shrimp or insects to swim into the forage, and then "swallow" them.
And water birds like egrets will also mistakenly peck at the mussel tissue of river mussels as wild fish, shrimp and crabs, and end up putting themselves in.
04 Fellow: Knock on the shell of the mussel and release the egret again
Changjiang Jun believes that the above statement is still relatively reliable - because in addition to the above water birds that are caught in the claws of river mussels, Yangtze River Jun has also seen some water birds whose long beaks are caught, obviously because the pecking mussel meat is clipped.....
In addition, after the river mussels clamped the water birds, it was actually a dead end, the water birds could not fly away, and the river mussels could not escape, and the final result was most likely to starve to death.
And they were both picked up by the "fisherman", which may be a better ending – at least for water birds.
For example, the above Chongqing fellow said that "go home and break the mussel shell, and then release the egret" - although this is a bit "cruel" and unfair to the river mussel, but the good white heron is a protective animal, only it can eat some losses...
The egret is already a nationally protected animal – infographic
ChangJiangjun: In any case, this interesting scene still makes people sigh the magic of nature.
Finally, give this enthusiastic "fisherman" a thumbs up.
Old drivers, when you are playing and fishing on the river, have you ever seen this kind of sandpiper mussel competing for fishing and profit?