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Shocked Heron Reacts To Eel Escaping Its Stomach

This is a two-panel meme. The upper panel depicts a wild grey heron in mid-flight against a plain overcast grey sky, with a long, slender eel protruding vertically out of the heron's chest/neck area, having burrowed out of the heron's digestive tract after being caught and eaten. The lower panel is a zoomed-in close-up of the heron's face, which has a wide-eyed, alarmed, shocked expression, with the bold white English expletive text 'Fuck' overlaid at the bottom of the panel to represent the heron's frustrated, surprised reaction to the unusual situation.
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Overview

This is a two-panel meme. The upper panel depicts a wild grey heron in mid-flight against a plain overcast grey sky, with a long, slender eel protruding vertically out of the heron's chest/neck area, having burrowed out of the heron's digestive tract after being caught and eaten. The lower panel is a zoomed-in close-up of the heron's face, which has a wide-eyed, alarmed, shocked expression, with the bold white English expletive text 'Fuck' overlaid at the bottom of the panel to represent the heron's frustrated, surprised reaction to the unusual situation.

Origin notes

The core imagery is from a real, widely circulated wildlife photograph taken by photographer Sam Davis in 2020, documenting the rare real-life event of an eel escaping a heron's body after being eaten. This photograph was edited into a meme, with the close-up crop and added expletive text, and posted on 9Gag under the original title 'Brutal'.

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