Saturday, February 26, 2022

A giant tortoise was caught stalking, killing and eating a baby bird

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 giant tortoise was caught stalking, killing and eating a baby bird | Science News New video shows that the lumbering reptiles really are cold-blooded

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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