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A kind of predation

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juraj

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Hard to say which one attacked first:
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I've never seen anything like it before, with the exception of cannibalistic larvae
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Is the loser being bitten or swallowed there?
Is it dead or alive?
Are they crested newts or alpines?
 
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The loser is being sucked out there.
It`s dead alpine female attacked by very vital and happy leech. She was almost completely sucked out. Or alpine female wanted to have a great dinner and then...
 
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Hummm... something doesnt look right on that picture.. the newt looks like its dead and is being eaten by the slug.. Am I right?
 
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That's truly one of the most amazing (and disturbing!) things I've ever seen in the newt and sal world.

At first I thought it was a newt swallowing another newt...
 
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Humm... theres a dealay on me seeing posts.. But anyway.. poor looser! Would have been interesting to see tho... not that i would want to see a newt killed or anything
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Was that your pet that you put with the leech?!?! To me that seems like a pretty sick thing to do to your pet. Or was this in the wild?
 
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Based on the background, I'd say he stumbled upon this in the wild.
 
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juraj

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I found it in the wild don`t worry guys
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. I was pretty surprised because I`ve never seen this before and thought that would be interesting to share it.
 
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ingo

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A really interesting observation...
Does anybody know, if Newts can handle smaller leeches as a prey?
 
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Hello Juraj,
I think you cleared this up for everybody now. Quite a rare incident to stumble upon. Thanks for sharing, although this is a gruesome sight. However, might also help to prevent disaster from anybody trying to feed leeches to her/his pet newts.

You seem to spend an awful lot of time out in the Danube floodplain. You must have webbed feet by now.
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I still havn`t but long walks on fresh air is a good prevention from any kind of mind sickness.
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Love your pics, Jorge.

This one, while morbid, shows really quite an amazing scene and you should really have it used, say in a book about amphibians.
 
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juraj,
just for the record, do you know what sort of leech that is?
 
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