To paraphrase Hobbes: "... and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death: and the life of [a baby bird], solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short"
Who would have thought that a tortoise can be a carnivore when the opportunity arises!
A Seychelles giant tortoise lunges towards a noddy tern chick in the first documented instance of a tortoise hunting. Moments after this frame was captured, the tortoise killed the chick, later swallowing it whole.
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