Tuesday, 24 August 2021

A giant tortoise remarkably hunts, kills, and eats a bird

Researchers on Frégate Island in the Seychelles noticed a giant tortoise behaving unusually, stalking a tern chick as if it wanted to eat the bird. So one of the scientists turned on the camera, and minutes later, the tortoise — normally a vegetarian — bit the bird's head and killed it. — Read the rest