Grouper Swallows Shark in One Bite in Viral Video (WATCH)
A grouper swallowed a shark in one huge bite, leaving the fisherman recording the video shocked, according to reports. The humongous fish managed to eat a black tip shark on camera right as the Florida man was reeling it in.
The grouper that swallowed a shark had been lurking off the coast of Bonita Springs, Florida when the incident occurred. One fisherman who remains unnamed caught a 4-foot shark on his line, and realizing the rare occurrence, a friend of his pulled out a camera to record it.
While the man brought in the smaller shark, a large Goliath Grouper circled its prey, waiting for the right time to strike.
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The cameraman tried to capture more of the gigantic fish by putting the camera underwater. Right when the fisherman had almost succeeded in pulling the shark in, the grouper lunged and swallowed it whole. The agility of the enormous fish shocked those on the boat.
"Wow! Oh my god! Did he just eat it?!" one passenger on the boat exclaimed.
"It just grabbed a freaking shark!" another said.
The resulting video was posted on YouTube and immediately went viral, gaining over 4.4 million hits in just two days. YouTube users were equally surprised.
"There's aaaalways a bigger fish," one YouTube user wrote.
"This is why I hate the ocean," another joked.
"So this poor shark thought its day was already bad, then it just gets worse," a third posted on the website.
Goliath groupers have been known to eat their prey whole, though they usually hunt smaller fish, octopi, stingrays and other crustaceans.
Watch the video here:
