When the hunter becomes the hunted! Video shows the terrifying moment huge hammerhead shark attacks a whaler
- Video shows a large hammerhead shark chomping on a whaler shark
- The brutal footage was shot by a sport fisherman in Exmouth Gulf, WA
- 'I knew they eat each other, but I hadn't seen it like that before,' angler said
Not even sharks are safe from shark attacks.
Footage posted by a sport fishing company in Exmouth, WA shows a large hammerhead shark chomping on a whaler shark.
The hammerhead is seen repeatedly striking the whaler, which has swallowed the fisherman's bait, and the bigger fish eventually eats half of the smaller one.
'Mother nature takes no prisoners,' said Wes Jones of Peak Sportfishing.
Footage posted by a sport fishing company in Exmouth, WA shows a large hammerhead shark chomping on a whaler shark
The hammerhead is seen repeatedly striking the whaler, which has swallowed the fisherman's bait
The hammerhead is seen eating half of the whaler before swimming away
'It was in Exmouth, in the gulf, and we were shark fishing when the hammerhead just came up,' explained Mr Jones, who shot the video around the New Year's weekend.
'It was hanging around for a while before it got in and ate the whaler,' the fisherman told Daily Mail Australia.
Exmouth Gulf is full of sharks, Mr Jones said, so packed that it's possible to throw in 'one bait, and be hooked up within thirty seconds.'
'I knew they eat each other, but I hadn't seen it like that before.'
The brutal cannibalism isn't pretty. But it shows, as Mr Jones put it, that 'the world is not wrapped in cotton.'
'Mother nature takes no prisoners,' said Wes Jones of Peak Sportfishing
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