Do not mistake the shoebill for a stork. The menacing, prehistoric-looking bird feasts on baby crocodiles and kills its siblings. Live Science tells us more: https://flip.it/yL5Gdc
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Shoebill: The human-sized African bird that eats baby crocodiles and kills its siblings

Shoebills reach up to 5 feet in height and they are formidable ambush predators, standing still in swamps before lunging forward to swallow their prey whole with their giant bills.

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@ScienceDesk It's more like a pelican than a stork.
@ScienceDesk Years ago at the Houston Zoo, I saw one these striding slowly across it's enclosure. A small flock of less than a dozen grackles flew by right next to it, and without breaking it's stride or exerting itself SNAP! GULP!, there was one less grackle. It just kept walking slowly, as if in dark meditation 😬