Gorgeous big bird
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wandawmn
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AnLand
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It is a great blue turaco.
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wandawmn
Interesting bird, is it true that chimps eat them?
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AnLand
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in response to wandawmn's comment.
What? Don't say this! (But I do not have any idea about this. Sorry.)
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MimiA
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source?
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DZM
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Chimps eat pretty much anything they can get their hands on, don't they? 😃
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MimiA
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nope 😃 I think you are thinking of humans there 😉
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wandawmn
was running a search engine query for great blue turaco... this snippet from yahoo answers popped u but the link was broken, hardly credible, which is why I asked.
Popular Q&A
Q: Does the great blue turaco have any enemies?
A: yeah eagles and chimps! Read More »
Source: answers.yahoo.ca
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MimiA
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Interesting! I must say I am not so sure of the full list of bird species they pray on since it is pretty rare, but I found this:
http://mahale.main.jp/PAN/15_2/15(2)_04.htmlThey state "Most of developmental stages of bird prey were eggs, nestlings or injured adults, without either ability to fly or resistance to predators."
also "capture of nestlings from their nests seems similar to that of non-primate mammals in that it is solitary and opportunistic." so in that sense @DZM is totally right too! At least for birds, they do seems to be eating whatever they get their hands on!
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wandawmn
Good reading, very interesting article in the references that id love to read too :
Huffman MA, Kalunde MS 1993. Tool-assisted predation on a squirrel by a female chimpanzee in the Mahale Mountains, Tanzania. Primates 34: 93-98.Posted