These incredible pictures show a stork and eagle desperately battling over a fish.
The animals were pictured fighting over their potential dinner near Lake Tagalala in Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania.
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These incredible pictures show a marabou stork and a fish eagle desperately battling over a catfish carcass earlier this year
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The animals – pictured approaching each other – were caught fighting over their potential dinner near Lake Tagalala in Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania
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The images, captured by safari guide Mark Sheridan Johnson, shows the marabou stork approaching the fish eagle after realising he had managed to find a catfish carcass
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The stork instantly tries to steal the dinner and throws his wings up to scare the rival bird, who jumps straight in the air out of the stork’s way
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The fish eagles directs his claws towards the stork, who appears to try and peck the bird with his huge beak as they continue to fight
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The birds then make themselves look bigger – and therefore more intimidating – by spreading their wings as they circle the fish
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The eagle desperately tried to protect the fish, which he wants for his dinner, by putting his claws on it in front of the stork
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The eagle pulls his neck right back into his feathered body in a bid to stay out of the way of the stork, who looks like he will do anything to eat the fish
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He is forced to take his foot off of the fish as the stork gets closer and closer, making the eagle walk away from the water
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In one final attempt to win the dinner, the eagle once again launches himself claw-first at the stork, who immediately retaliates
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Eventually, the stork succeeds and manages to wrestle the carcass away from the hungry eagle before settling down to eat his dinner