Most people get taught in schooling that certain brute eat certain thing : the lion hunts the antelope , the wanderer catches the fly , and theherbivoresof the brute kingdom happily chow down on the tastiest leave-taking they can feel . Not that this is necessarily untimely , but the truth is a piffling more complicated .
Take the low Seychelles tortoise . You might cogitate that they would be happily mooching around the woodland floor hoovering up leave and yield , and for the most part they are . But research suggests that it ’s not just leaves that make up their diet .
Shocking footageshows a tortoise taking part in a rather brutal attack on a tern chick before devour it whole . While eating meat is not as uncommon as you might believe in the tortoise earth , researchers now conceive some tortoise are adept at hunting birds , like this one , which have fallen from their nests onto the timber floor .
Not that the bird themselves are much good . Mallard duck are famously fed clams by children ( even though you should n’t ) , and according to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds(RSBP)eat a diet of seminal fluid , acorns , berries , plants , insects , and shellfish .
However , in Romania , savage mallard have been observed bestow something rather strange to their menu . They have been constitute to be activelyeating other bird , including a untested black redstart and a grey wagtail . Researchers think they may have turned to eat other bird due to a lack of more typical solid food , due to Pisces introduced by the local angling order eating all the insect larvae .
Across the world , everyone ’s favorite long - necked mammals are also breaking with zoological tradition and chowing down onimpala skulls . creature that practise osteophagia , like giraffes , seldom eat the whole bones , but having a little nibble helps draw out crucial nutrients like phosphorus and calcium . At Werribee Open Plains Zoo in Australia , Tony the giraffe was also notorious for eating dead rabbits in front of visitor , rather destroy the staff talking explicate how giraffes are herbivores .
One of the earthly concern ’s most far-famed species , the giant coon bear , is known for its power to eat bamboo by the bucketload , but you might be surprised to listen that they are not stringently vegetarian and will sometimes trace pikas and other small rodents , according to the World Wide Fund For Nature(WWF ) .
While mass love to put dietary categories to brute , pandas , mallards , and tortoise have no concept of this and – as we have discovered – will gayly take a chomp out of anything that takes their fantasy .
