{"id":211090,"date":"2025-12-26T01:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T01:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/211090\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T01:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T01:35:06","slug":"is-nowhere-safe-watch-gripping-bbc-footage-of-giant-killer-fish-leaping-to-snatch-baby-birds-turning-the-lagoon-into-a-deadly-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/211090\/","title":{"rendered":"Is nowhere safe? Watch gripping BBC footage of giant, killer fish leaping to snatch baby birds \u2013 turning the lagoon into a deadly arena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the dry season, over half a million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/birds\/facts-about-common-terns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tern<\/a> crowd onto an atoll in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/news\/coral-superhighway-found-in-indian-ocean\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indian Ocean<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As chicks grow into fledglings, they learn to fly using the shallow lagoon as a training ground. It\u2019s tricky for some of less-advanced fledglings to stay in the sky for long.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Giant trevallies, usually solitary hunters, descend on the area, attracted by the abundance of prey.<\/p>\n<p>Fledglings try to drink on the wing to avoid danger, but the ingenious fish have learned to hunt even in mid-air, turning the lagoon into a deadly arena.<\/p>\n<p>Watch giant trevally hunt tern<\/p>\n<p>This incredible footage was originally filmed for the BBC\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p04tjbtx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Planet II<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Main image credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the dry season, over half a million tern crowd onto an atoll in the Indian Ocean. As&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-211090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}