Bird Swallowing Large Animal Prey Whole

A big ray-finned eel fish becomes prey for a hungry feeding cormorant bird that swallows large animal prey in whole portions when it eats animals for food. Water animals of large proportions are eaten alive regularly by this aquatic avian animal using a specially adapted swallowing technique for toothless birds when they feed. The cormorant is a meat-eating predatory aquatic bird species that attacks and feeds on other animals; they are carnivorous predators, top predators, and exceptional hunters of all kinds of water prey animals that live and breed in and around the water. Cormorants are water-dwelling avians who have an incredible instinct to attack and eat other animals by diving and swimming through the water in pursuit of their prey; they are excellent swimmers who swim with great stealth and speed to surprise and attack animals that live beneath the water. This feeding behavior has evolved over millions of years, enabling them to have an extensive menu of wild protein-rich food. The cormorants have a diverse meat diet, from hunting to eating other animals. They especially like to eat fish and various aquatic creatures that live in seawater and freshwater. The cormorant can occasionally be seen hunting and eating baby waterbirds across their water-hunting paths. Food eaten without chewing is how the cormorants and all birds eat their food because they have no teeth for crushing, and dining on big or small portions by swallowing in gulps is how they feed. The cormorants will hunt prey in the seas, oceans, and inland waterways in many parts of the world where they live and breed.

[@ultimatemexicano3535]

Amazing footage here too! That looks like a huge eel (An older one?) the bird caught!
The sea creature was struggling, but the hungry Cormorant managed to fully consume (alive?!) it all okay? It looked like the unlucky thing was desperately thrashing sliding down that throat!
I’ve heard eels produce a lot of slime that can act as a protective coat and makes them quite slippery 😅!
I wonder, does the large eel stand any chance of escaping if eaten in that condition? Maybe it can turn around inside the elastic throat/stomach and has a chance of survival here.

[@DaninVa-gt9nj]

I was trying to figure out what bird was eating. Tks for you explanation. I thought it was just a regular fish.