A terrifying slow motion.A rare video of a giant turtle hunts hydrangea chicks

I can't stand it ...

Is it only me who makes you feel like this video, which has only less than two minutes?I managed to watch it to the end to translate the article, but it was painful.

This one scene, which reveals the nature and surprise of nature so much, was shot on Fregat, the Saechel Republic, floating in the Indian Ocean off East Africa.Arda Braze's turtles bite, kill, and eat some of the young Indian Himekuro Hydrangea, but the whole story progresses in an unbearable slow motion.

Are you ready for your heart?Then please.

The incident occurred on the afternoon of July 30, 2020.Hunting begins when a female Ardabrachels Gigantea, who lives on Fregat, is about to approach the young bird of Anous Tenuirostris, which was resting on driftwood.

The giant turtle approaching while opening the mouth wide should have been a threat to young hydrangea.The hydrangea naturally begins to be shed, and gradually is cornered to the end of the driftwood.And when there is no longer a place to escape, the wings are flapped, and they start attacking with a beak while raising the sorrowful call.However, such resistance is also indifferent, and the next moment, the giant turtle swings a big jaw down to the hydrangea head and kills it instantly!The body that has lost the lively hydrangea collapses on the ground.The video ends here, but after this, the giant tortois seems to have drunk the hydrangea.

I thought the turtle was a jerky and quiet pacifist, but I eat it to live, and I eat meat to make up for protein.Most of the meals are vegetable, but there are bones and snail shells (calcium sources), dead meats, and some semi -raw gardens that eat frogs.

The murderous intention

This video was taken by ANNA ZORA, a natural environmental preservation officer on Fregat Island.Zora tagged with Justin Gerlach, a biologist at Cambridge University, and published a new knowledge of the giant turtles from the video in the Current Biology magazine.

In the past, it was observed in the past to eat birds and other small animals, but it was not known how to capture the prey."In the past observed examples, I didn't know if the giant turtle killed directly to eat animals or ate an animal that happened to crush it," Garlak explains.

However, as far as this video is seen, this gash is approaching hydrangea with obvious murderous intentions.In other words, hydrangea is not a thing that can be eaten as it is, but it is recognized that it is a thing that can be eaten after killing first.

"The gallery can see the hydrangea straight and look at it intentionally," said Garlak."This is very rare, and it is far from the usual giant turtles."moreover,

Both gifts and hydrangea are living desperately

Such a short video is a treasure trove of information for biologists.Garlak continues to talk like this.

In recent years, Fregat Island has been actively restoring the habitat of Indian Himekuro hydrangea, and it is now inhabited about 250,000 birds (about 10,000 nests).On the other hand, Arda Braze's turtle lives about 3,000.In both cases, the number has been decreasing for hundreds of years due to human development activities, but Zora and others aim to continue conservation activities and increase steadily in the future.

If both population increases, the probability of matching each other will inevitably increase.The offense and defense of the luxury and hydrangea may take place here and there on Fregat Island.

Even so, couldn't you fly with hydrangea?Perhaps because it was a chick, he couldn't flee yet.Gassho ...!

Reference: Current Biology