Seychelles tortoise that hunted bird stuns scientists That Hunted Bird Stuns Scientists

Africa News ^ | 8/25

[nickcarraway]

The giant tortoise, one of nature's vegetarians. Or is it?

This video shows the astonishing moment an Aldabra giant tortoise hunts and kills a noddy tern chick.It's the first time this behaviour has ever been documented and changes what scientists thought they knew about the species.

A study of the slow-speed hunt has been published in the scientific journal Current Biology."Everybody knows, or everybody thought they knew, that tortoises are vegetarians," he says.

[Bobalu]

That title gave me whiplash or sumptin...lol

[Candor7]

A lizard is a lizard.......and they ALL eat meat.

[Deaf Smith]

One can look up on YouTube; Turtle eats duck.

[Joe 6-pack]

Global warming no doubt. Once they ice caps are gone will be seeing stories of polar bears eating Seychelles tortoises.

[Dusty Road]

Here in West TX we have a small Box Turtle (Actually a Tortoise) and those little guy’s will eat anything they can get their little mouths on. I’ve seen them catch mice, lizards and even eat on a dead carcass. The pond turtles or Red Eared Sliders are carnivores as are most aquatic turtles. This shouldn’t surprise anybody.

[millenial4freedom]

Has the unhinged feminist lift attacked it for proselytizing the virtues of ‘toxic masculinity’ yet?

[hecticskeptic]

Was golfing with a buddy years ago at a course north of Tampa. We were near a tree and happened to look up at the moment a squirrel jumped down from a branch right on to a robin where it proceeded to eat it.

[Blogatron]

He chases. He head-fakes. He pounces!
Let's see that again in slow motion.

[RandallFlagg]

I found a box turtle crawling into my front yard last month. Checked to see it the horses were related to it:

[RandallFlagg]

“IF” the horses were related to it...

[DoodleDawg]

Must have been a very slow bird.