29 março 2012

Codorniz / Common Quail

Codorniz/Common Quail, Coturnix coturnix - Lisboa

Há já alguns anos, esta codorniz foi encontrada morta junto a um dos edifícios da FCUL. Causa de morte? Colisão com um vidro. Nunca chegou a África./A few years ago, this common quail was found dead next to one of the FCUL buildings. Cause of death? Collision with a glass. It never made it to Africa.

2 comentários:

  1. in my province there was a water ox who charged his head on a tree again and again. it was weird for me to think it's suicide but the ox died days after

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  2. Perrine, in this case the bird failed to recognize the glass as an obstacle and flew against it -- which is unfortunately very common. But with the water ox -- who knows? Animals in captivity sometimes do terrible things to themselves, like for instance, depressed parrots who pluck out their feathers (and sometimes even more than that, I have been told).

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