Scavenging by young tortoises (<i>Testudo</i> sp.) could induce their predation by the Eurasian Eagle-Owl <i>(Bubo bubo)</i>-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Scavenging by young tortoises (Testudo sp.) could induce their predation by the Eurasian Eagle-Owl (Bubo bubo)

Published:2023-12-01 Issue:2 Volume:31 Page:243-246
ISSN:2061-9588
Container-title:Ornis Hungarica
language:en
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Author:

Milchev Boyan¹

Affiliation:

1. 1 University of Forestry , Wildlife Management Department , 10 Kl. Ochridski Blvd., BG-1797 Sofia , Bulgaria

Abstract

Abstract Eating owl pellets by non-predator vertebrates is a rare and difficult-to-prove food chain relationship. In this paper, I reported the first record of a Spur-thighed Tortoise (Testudo graeca) eating a Eurasian Eagle-Owl (Bubo bubo) pellet with remains of a right Wood Pigeon (Columba palumbus) wing. Scavenging of food remains around owl nests by young tortoises may possibly explain the few cases of tortoise-eating Eurasian Eagle-Owls.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Animal Science and Zoology,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Link

https://www.sciendo.com/pdf/10.2478/orhu-2023-0034

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