Have you ever watched those nature shows on television? You know the ones that make no excuses and show nature as it happens in the wild. Well, I only wish that I had my camera to film this National Geographic Moment.
My brother Mario and sister-in-law, Stasi, had come to visit us one day. I was talking to my brother in the living room as he was holding Jason. For future reference in this story, my brother will be playing the part of the Unsuspecting Prey (UP). Anyway, the unsuspecting prey was holding Jaws.... I mean Jason, to whom I will refer to as "the predator".
On this day, we happened upon the unsuspecting prey in his natural habitat, the couch of the Serengeti Plain. The predator had already moved into position and was lying in wait on the UP's lap. With stealth-like silence, the predator positioned himself to face outward and slowly grasped his prey's hand which was carelessly hanging in front of him.
At this point, the UP was distracted with conversation. This did not bode well for the unsuspecting prey.
In the wild, as is often the case with slow moving predators, the element of surprise plays a crucial role in survival. I found myself strangely fascinated as the unusually slow attack began unfolding before my very eyes. First, the predator simply leaned forward and bumped the fleshy part behind the lower thumb knuckle with his semi-open mouth, something that was reminiscent of a shark investigating it's prey in the water before a strike. Then, the predator, leading with his tongue, seem to almost taste his prey. All the while, the UP was totally unaware of his eminent fate. Finally, the predator rested his open mouth on the prey's hand.
To the untrained eye, this appeared harmless until...... I noticed the predator's pupils grow large as he slowly began to sink all eight of his razor sharp teeth down into that fleshy part of his prey's hand, his nose gradually scrunching and his cheeks raising and resulting in a fiendish smile.
Now, in nature, there is a certain startled look on the face of every animal that has fallen prey to a predator right before the moment of truth--the look of realization and shock that begins with raised eyebrows and an opening of the eyes so wide that you can see the white of the eye all around the color part.
That was the look. SURPRISE!
The look of shock on the prey's face was morbidly entertaining. Frozen in a slight panic, the prey finally let out a yell. This quickly alerted the predator's mommy and the prey's wife as to what had happened. Luckily this predator was just an infant or this could have been another of nature's tales of eat or be eaten.
The predator released his prey and was quickly swept up into his mommy's arms. Upon later examination, the bite was only a superficial wound with no puncture and the prey returned to the wild no worse for wear. (Insert Nat Geo music here, Pum, Pum, Pum, Puuum Pum.)
"We're gonna need a bigger boat."
1 comment:
What a parona hahaha =]
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