{"id":575318,"date":"2026-07-30T11:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T11:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/575318\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T11:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T11:04:09","slug":"tuna-carcass-placed-at-bottom-of-ocean-all-was-quiet-before-this-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/575318\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuna carcass placed at bottom of ocean. All was quiet, before this happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a dead tuna was put at the bottom of the ocean and a camera set up in front of it, it sparked a storm of activity.<\/p>\n<p>Not a lot happens in the first few moments of the underwater footage, but once the first deep-sea eel appears on the scene, it&#8217;s soon joined by more.   <\/p>\n<p>Before long, there is a crab and half-a-dozen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/marine-animals\/giant-isopod-guide\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">giant isopods<\/a> \u2013 a kind of super-sized crustacean.<\/p>\n<p>Then, as if a switch has been flicked, it becomes a full-blown feeding frenzy. Ocean sediment clouds the scene as tails swipe and segmented shells scramble for their share of the meal.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the astonishing video to the end and you&#8217;ll see that all that remains of the tuna is a stripped skeleton&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Deep-sea feeding frenzy: see giant isopods and slinking eels feasting on the tuna carcass. Credit: BBC Universal\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Video and image credit: BBC Universal\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>More amazing wildlife videos from around the world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When a dead tuna was put at the bottom of the ocean and a camera set up in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-575318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575318","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=575318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}