Snail dropping by a New Caledonian crow(67.6MB, 00:02:24)Shot Date: 2012/10/19 Shot Location: Parc des Grandes Fougeres, Farino, New Caledonia | ||
 | species Corvus moneduloides Key Words | |
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Snail dropping by a New Caledonian crow(67.6MB, 00:02:24)Shot Date: 2012/10/19 Shot Location: Parc des Grandes Fougeres, Farino, New Caledonia | ||
| species Corvus moneduloides Key Words | |
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Animalia >Chordata >Aves >Passeriformes >Corvidae >Corvus >
A New Caledonian crow drops a land snail from a branch of a tree on a rocky bed of a dry creek. Around this area, numerous broken shells are scattered, probably those dropped by this crow. The snail dropped in this video weighs approximately 70~80g. The original scene lasts for about 10 minutes but this clip was edited to be shorten.
The crow left this place and returned twice within about 3 hours to resume feeding, but whether the crow consumed the whole snail was unknown.
Tanaka KD, Okahisa Y, Sato NJ, Theuerkauf J, Ueda K. (2013) Gourmand New Caledonian crows munch rare escargots by dropping.
J Ethol 31: 341-344 (DOI: 10.1007/s10164-013-0384-y)
(Data No.momo130926cm01a)
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