This Bird Kills Snakes By Kicking Their Heads Over And Over
- 8 years ago
The secretary bird is a mostly-land-based species of bird that hails from sub-Saharan Africa and kills its prey by kicking them to death.
A certain species of bird can kill snakes with its feet.
Hailing from sub-Saharan Africa, the secretary bird lives primarily on land.
The creature itself is quite large and feeds on small mammals and reptiles; using its feet to repeatedly strike its prey to death--or at least to stun them.
Video from the Royal Veterinary College and Royal Holloway at the University of London shows one such secretary bird, named Madeleine, in action.
With a quick furious succession of motion, Madeleine kicks a rubber snake's head.
Slow motion captures one such movement that
A certain species of bird can kill snakes with its feet.
Hailing from sub-Saharan Africa, the secretary bird lives primarily on land.
The creature itself is quite large and feeds on small mammals and reptiles; using its feet to repeatedly strike its prey to death--or at least to stun them.
Video from the Royal Veterinary College and Royal Holloway at the University of London shows one such secretary bird, named Madeleine, in action.
With a quick furious succession of motion, Madeleine kicks a rubber snake's head.
Slow motion captures one such movement that