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Weird Animal Behaviours
Topic Started: Dec 18 2014, 08:02 AM (1,704 Views)
Admiral General Aladeen
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Furka
Dec 18 2014, 01:05 PM
That's normal, they do that all the time, especially at night to sleep.
As well as when they get startled by something (A dog flushing them, for example)

Also, I feel that the bark tapping behavior of aye-ayes and a few other species suits this topic. Makes you wonder how they learned to do it xD
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Posted Image Slappio
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This

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Pelicans eating pigeons. Very different from Finding Nemo.
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Ulquiorra
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Pelicans also eat gannets, but that is due to over fishing.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8343000/8343195.stm
Edited by Ulquiorra, Dec 22 2014, 02:07 PM.
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Rudyn
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It's not a new behaviour but I never expected this from walruses.

Walruses sometimes hunts seals:

http://animals.io9.com/walruses-are-deadly-hunters-not-cute-and-squishy-1585688815

http://www.spitsbergentravel.com/Start/Adventures/Summer-Excursions/Boat-Pyramiden/Photos-Pyramiden/


And what once I posted in Gaia
Great tits sometimes hunt another singing birds.

A Great tit kill a Common Linnet

http://www.iltasanomat.fi/videot/kotimaa/vid-1288538785461.html

And sometimes they eat bat brains in winters.

Bat brain eating great tits

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17749-killer-birds-bite-off-bats-heads.html

http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/6/1/59.full

Great tits have been seen killing and eating bats in a Hungarian cave.
video:
http://www.newscientist.com/video/37869012001-killer-birds.html
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Furka
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A weird thing I've seen in fish is a pretty much carnivorous species feeding on sweetcorn.
I myself have hooked catfish, sturgeons and at least one eel with sweetcorn, and found them in the stomach of trouts. I even saw a man catching a pike with sweetcorn, although that was likely an attack driven by curiosity.

On the other hand, there are reports of fish usually not regarded as predators attacking live baits or fishing lures (common barbel being the first that comes to my mind).
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Ulquiorra
Dec 22 2014, 08:39 AM
Pelicans also eat gennets, but that is due to over fishing.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8343000/8343195.stm
You said gennets. That would be like eating a slender cat with claws. Good thing its gannets.
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Dec 22 2014, 10:55 AM
Ulquiorra
Dec 22 2014, 08:39 AM
Pelicans also eat gennets, but that is due to over fishing.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8343000/8343195.stm
You said gennets. That would be like eating a slender cat with claws. Good thing its gannets.
Oops, corrected the typo xD

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A weird thing I've seen in fish is a pretty much carnivorous species feeding on sweetcorn.
I myself have hooked catfish, sturgeons and at least one eel with sweetcorn, and found them in the stomach of trouts. I even saw a man catching a pike with sweetcorn, although that was likely an attack driven by curiosity.

On the other hand, there are reports of fish usually not regarded as predators attacking live baits or fishing lures (common barbel being the first that comes to my mind).


That reminds me of the river monsters episode were Pacu have been introduced to a new guinea river and have adapted to eating meat, due to there being not native predatory/toothed fish. I've also heard of common/mirror carp being caught on live and dead baits, as well as lures.

And about the pike, could there be the possibility that the pike was targeting a shoal of smaller fish and got the baited hook caught in it's jaws in the process?
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Damnit Ulquiorra, I wanted to talk about the ball-eating pacus xD
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Sorry if this is bumping, but I'm pretty sure this topic is an okay to bump topic. My common snapping turtle just ate a turtle pellet and the way he did that was he sucked it up like a Mata-Mata, even though common snapping turtles... well... snap. The reason I think he did this is because it was on a sand floor and he probably had a mouthful of it one too many times. So he sucked up the pellet lightly with his mouth and then ate it. But I've never heard or seen a common snapping turtle do that before, so I decided to post it here.
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Well it's possible that it did that because it realized a pellet isn't a living thing, so no need to snap it.
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Yeah. It's probably just gotten used to captivity and figured out not to bother with a huge attack.
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He always snaps at everything though (even pellets and lettuce), he's very aggressive and he even snapped at a light fixture and broke it, but thanks for the thoughts anyways.
Edited by Consultant, Feb 19 2015, 06:18 PM.
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