Saturday 12 January 2013
Pike found choked on zander in Netherlands
Anglers are scratching their heads after a pike was found dead with a zander - a fish of similar size - jammed in its mouth in the Netherlands.
Rene Spaargaren, from Almere near Amsterdam, noticed the dead fish locked together in water near his home and dragged them out with a boat hook.
"It was clear that the pike had bitten off more than it could chew - or swallow, rather," he told BBC News.
British angling expert Charles Jardine said the event was "really unusual".
"What on Earth possessed the pike to take on prey that size?" he asked. "Gluttony just killed that fish."
Mr Spaargaren reported his find to the Dutch nature conservation news website Natuurbericht, which published the story and one of his incredible photographs.'Not a python'
He came across the fish while doing some work by his jetty this week.
Continued: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20971848
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