Reverse Foodchain on Chek Jawa

In a normal foodchain, a large crab will eat a small octopus, and a large octopus will eat a small crab. In other words, the larger fellow will eat the smaller one.

Imagine our surprise this morning when Cynthia spotted an octopus with just its 20cm tentacles moving around outside a hole. Imagine all our faces, when we see a crab, barely 7cm across, trying to feed on one of these tentacles, tugging away tenaciously as if it was the last thing on earth.

The crab dragged the end of that tentacle undera rock and disappeared from our view. However, the octpous was pulled out into the open and it honestly looked very embarrassed, with teh rest of its arms covering its head while it tried very hard to get its arm away from the crab under the rock.



What else did we see? On the walk back from Chek Jawa, this big black snake reared up and spread its hood. Unfortunately, once all the cameras came out, the black spitting cobra had decided that it was time to leave and had disappeared into the undergrowth, and was nowhere to be seen.