Pictures: a heron devours a baby crocodile in Florida

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A Florida wildlife photographer captured the moments of the blue heron devouring a baby crocodile.

Photographer Shelly Gilliam wrote on her account on the social networking site "Facebook": "I was a few meters away when the heron caught the crocodile, and then flew with him in his mouth to this place where he spent about 25 minutes killing and eating the crocodile."

Gilliam also posted a video on her page showing how the bird slowly swallows the crocodile.

And the heron wasn't the only creature Gilliam spotted in the lake. It saw a full-grown, 12-foot (about 3.6 m) alligator wandering just a few hundred meters from the heron site.