00:00This five foot bird eats baby crocodiles and sometimes kills its own siblings to survive.
00:06Meet the shoebill, a human-sized ambush predator that lives in the swamps of East Africa.
00:11Its one foot long bill is the third largest bird beak in the world, capable of swallowing prey whole.
00:18Shoebills lay up to three eggs in a clutch, but only one chick usually survives to adulthood.
00:23The larger firstborn often out-competes any siblings for food, even killing them to stay alive.
00:28Catfish are their most common prey, but the shoebill is also known to feast on eels, snakes and even baby
00:35crocodiles.
00:37Though sometimes called a stork, they are actually the only member of the Belenoceps genus,
00:41with its closest living relatives being pelicans.
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