Milchev, Boyan (2023) Scavenging by young tortoises (Testudo sp.) could induce their predation by the Eurasian Eagle-Owl (Bubo bubo). ORNIS HUNGARICA, 31 (2). pp. 243-246. ISSN 1215-1610
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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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | diet, owl pellet, facultative scavenging, Testudo graeca |
| Subjects: | Q Science / természettudomány > QH Natural history / természetrajz > QH301 Biology / biológia Q Science / természettudomány > QL Zoology / állattan Q Science / természettudomány > QL Zoology / állattan > QL750-QL782.5 Animal behavior / etológia, állat-viselkedéstan |
| Depositing User: | Melinda Danyi |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Aug 2024 11:53 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Aug 2024 11:53 |
| URI: | https://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/203709 |
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