It then closes its jaws and pushes the water back out of its mouth through its baleen, which allows the water to leave while trapping the prey.
Framed within a terra-cotta bell cote, the mechanical dragon arose from a crouch, opening and closing its jaws.
Dr. William E. Bemis, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, said studies of the fish's eye muscles, used to close its jaws, had provided important links to how similar muscles in frogs and vertebrates worked.
It pins small prey down with its front paws while devouring it, and jumps onto larger prey, sinking in its claws and closing its jaws around the neck.
Then, the animal inserts the taut hair between its open jaws, and the action ends when the animal closes its jaws to engage the taut hair, and pulls the hair sharply to one side by one hand and removes it from its mouth.
"Then, by closing its jaw, the cat captures part of that liquid".
"There is a time when the volume of a column is at a maximum, which is at the time at which the cat closes its jaw," Dr Stocker said.
To make room for the expansion, Universal Studios Florida last year closed its signature "Jaws" boat ride.
Eels are usually found hiding in crevices, but this one was out and about, and close enough for us to watch it opening and closing its toothy jaws, as if it were auditioning for the next Spielberg blockbuster.
