Know the fish that can swallow prey many times larger than it.

Eat a lot! That is the will of everyone, after all, few things are better than this. But health care and aesthetics mean that we end up eating compulsively. But in the animal kingdom, there are those animals that end up feeding more than they really should.

This is the case with the Black Swallower (or "black swallower" in literal translation). This strange fish is very small and hardly more than 10 centimeters long. However, that does not make him a harmless animal. On the contrary, larger fish need to be careful as they can ingest up to 10 times their own mass. And that is very true.

Really scary

Anyone who looks at this fish like this, after feeding it, may have some kind of revulsion, distress or even curiosity, but, which is really strange, there is no denying it. What is striking is the size of the animal's stomach, which expands and allows it to eat prey twice as large as it is. And the animal does not think twice.

Because of this frightening ability, he is known as "the great swallower." You don't have to explain why, do you? The fish also has a scary face with very sharp teeth. Almost no one cares about him, but, like most deep-sea beings, this "goldfish" can really surprise.

Where can you find it?

A lot of people have probably never heard of this fish and are amazed by the facts and images. The reason is that it lives in the darkest and deepest regions of the oceans, being very difficult to capture images and information. Black Swallower has a preference for tropical and subtropical waters at a depth of 700 to 2, 750 meters.

The Black Swallower Feed

The way they feed themselves is also a very curious fact. Some researchers have studied the species but have failed to reach a common agreement. However, they suspect the fish will eat their prey starting at the tail, rising until the whole victim is lodged in his stomach - at this time of the championship, completely dilated.

But overeating is bad for anyone, both the human and the fish. Most of the information previously known was obtained from swallowers found on the surface of the ocean, killed after eating a meal that was too large, beyond the limit supported by the body itself.

What happens is that the meal ends up decomposing very quickly in the predator's stomach and releases gas into the body of the small fish. This causes the Black Swallower to rise to the surface and die shortly thereafter. So believe me when people say that overeating can end up killing. This fish is an example of this.