Many of us remember being duped into hunting for a nonexistent animal called a snipe. The summer camp prank often involved wandering into the woods with an empty pillowcase and making odd noises to attract the creature and then being left alone in the dark.
But snipe are an actual family of birds, and this hunt is no joke.
![](https://s2.save4k.ru/pic/Doah80WgF5M/maxresdefault.jpg)