Pictures of the year 2009: animals eating each other
A three and a half metre shark that was almost bitten in half by a large great white shark in Brisbane, Australia. The great white, believed to be at least six metres long, has been dubbed Jaws by locals and visitors
Picture: BARCROFT MEDIA
A crocodile strays too close to a mother hippo and her calves among a group of 50 hippos bathing in the Serengeti national park, Tanzania. The crocodile was killed in the battle that ensued
Picture: VACLAV SILHA/ BARCROFT USA LTD
A green anaconda suffocates and then eats a common caiman in the Lianos National Park of Venezuela
Picture: BARCROFT
An Olive Python which ate a Maltese terrier in the town of Katherine in the Northern Territory. The dog weighed 5.8kg, more than half the snake's own weight
Picture: BARCROFT MEDIA
A hungry King snake saw something moving and went for it - not realising it was its own tail. The snake's owner took the snake to vet Rob Reynolds at Seers Croft Veterinary Surgery, Nr Crawley, Sussex, who managed to dislocate its jaw
Picture: PICTURE PARTNERSHIP
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In this gallery we look back at the pictures we published this year showing animals eating other animals - and the ones that got away. This picture captures the food chain in one shot as a heron tries to gobble a snake that is eating a fish. The snap was taken by David Crooks in a wetlands area near the Potomac River in Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
Picture: NATIONAL PICTURES
A heron tries to swallow a large turtle in this photograph taken by Jose F Garcia at the Everglades National Park in Florida. The bird spent 25 minutes turning the nine-inch reptile over in its beak as it tried to figure out how to eat it
Picture: JOSE F GARCIA / SOLENT
A Stingray leaps out of the water as it is hunted by a Killer Whale whose fin can be seen below the Ray
A seal has a lucky escape as a killer whale known as Mel lunges for it on a beach in Patagonia...
Picture: ROB LOTT / BARCROFT MEDIA
A male polar bear carries the head of a polar bear cub it killed and cannibalised, north of the Canadian town of Churchill
Picture: REUTERS
These breathtaking pictures appear to show a little girl seconds away from becoming a hungry tiger's lunch. Little Avery Thompson seems oblivious to the 370lb Royal White Bengal Tiger as he stretches out a massive paw in an attempt to touch her...
Picture: DYRK DANIELS / SOLENT NEWS
...But, despite appearances, the toddler is perfectly safe - she and Almos the tiger are separated by a thick pane of glass. Keen amateur wildlife photographer Dyrk Daniels photographed the encounter at Cougar Mountain Zoo, in WashingtonPicture: DYRK DANIELS / SOLENT NEWS
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