Brown-eared Bulbul [Hypsipetes amaurotis] is very common in eastern Asia. In my area, they are really thriving.
Today I found an interesting article
involving this bird.
--> (SuetsuguK et al. Potential role of bird predation in the dispersal of otherwiseflightless stick insects. Ecology. 2018 Jun;99(6):1504-1506)
The Japanese researchers fed eggs from
three species of stick insect to brown-eared bulbuls and checked their
excretions (poops) a few hours later.
They found that between 5% and 20% of the
eggs for each species, had survived. Some eggs even hatched.
This may explain the dispersal of this
flightless insects between unconnected islands.
What a strategy!
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Dying is not an end of life, for some
creatures, it's a grand plan to send out their future generations in a
two-winged bio-plane.
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