Anyway, I heard that this might be a common way for birds of prey to store their food safely until they are hungry enough to eat it. So, I introduce you to:
The Loggerhead Shrike
<--notice the mouse in the fence"The Loggerhead Shrike is a predator, but it does not have the strong feet and talons of a raptor. It does have a strongly hooked bill for gripping flesh, and a strong notch or "tooth" near the bill tip that helps sever the spinal cord of its prey. It uses thorns and barbed wire to hold large prey while it rips it up, and may wedge prey into a fork in a branch for the same purpose." -Cornell Lab of Orinthology
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Cooooouuhhhhllll. I would just like everyone to take note of how an article is used here to relate to real life. And not the fake blogging that I have seen where people just copy and past an article.
Anyway, it was very interesting to see a follow up to that curious dead animal finding.
Hey, anytime you need a dead animal blog post, you know where to go....
and he's such a cute little bugger....who'da thunk he was a vile predator!!
(saw ya on dani's & clicked over....)
a terror-inducing predator indeed.. I think Cacturne is a pretty big baby about dead animal photos and between you and Vern, all this exposure is good for him.
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