Great blue heron slowly swallows rat whole in Central Park: VIDEO

NEW YORK CITY - Among the things seen in Central Park on a daily basis, I bet you weren't expecting this.

A great blue heron was spotted in NYC slowly devouring a large rat in a video obtained by Storyful.

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The video shows the bird eating the rat in a process that took several minutes.

"This video shows the long process of the heron swallowing the rat whole, as a snake would. I could not believe that the bird had the capacity to swallow something that huge," Mike Messer, who recorded the video, told Storyful.