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William Astor
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Observations on Orange cheeks
Orange cheeks seem to be the only African Estrildid species out of at least 10 African species that I have that SEEM to eat a dead hatchling that has been thrown out of the nest. At least they bite the dead hatchling’s rump a lot. My orange cheeks also devour hard boiled egg all day long which I replace every 4 hours so I know it is not due to lack of animal protein.
It makes no difference whether the dead hatchling is an orange cheek hatchling or not.
Does anyone know of any other Estrildid species that likes eating dead hatchlings ?
The strange thing is that IF the hatchling that has been thrown out of the nest is still ALIVE, the orange cheeks will not even approach it....!!! It has to be dead for them to want to eat it.
I do not see the dead hatchling again the next day. The orange cheeks seem to take it somewhere. Does anyone know where ?
I have never seen a dead hatchling in an orange cheeks’ upper nest.
If they take the dead hatchling back to their lower nest, won’t this lead to disease inside their nest ?
If you have made different observations on your orange cheeks, can you please tell me ?
Thank you all.
William
P.S. Für eine Übersetzung, die nicht zu gut ist, Versuch:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr
Gutes englisches deutsches Wörterbuch:
http://dict.leo.org/
Orange cheeks seem to be the only African Estrildid species out of at least 10 African species that I have that SEEM to eat a dead hatchling that has been thrown out of the nest. At least they bite the dead hatchling’s rump a lot. My orange cheeks also devour hard boiled egg all day long which I replace every 4 hours so I know it is not due to lack of animal protein.
It makes no difference whether the dead hatchling is an orange cheek hatchling or not.
Does anyone know of any other Estrildid species that likes eating dead hatchlings ?
The strange thing is that IF the hatchling that has been thrown out of the nest is still ALIVE, the orange cheeks will not even approach it....!!! It has to be dead for them to want to eat it.
I do not see the dead hatchling again the next day. The orange cheeks seem to take it somewhere. Does anyone know where ?
I have never seen a dead hatchling in an orange cheeks’ upper nest.
If they take the dead hatchling back to their lower nest, won’t this lead to disease inside their nest ?
If you have made different observations on your orange cheeks, can you please tell me ?
Thank you all.
William
P.S. Für eine Übersetzung, die nicht zu gut ist, Versuch:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr
Gutes englisches deutsches Wörterbuch:
http://dict.leo.org/