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> Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 09:26:07 -0500
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> I watched them for long periods of time, wondering if they were using the
> stone as a tool somehow. ( In my mind I already had my paper written and
> mailed to all the herp journals). I still coudn't figure it out. Could the
> stones resemble some beetle or animal that predates phelsuma? Were they
> trying to kill it? When I couldn't explain it my theories got less and less
> plausible.
My first thought was that some snail-eating behaviour was being evoked, i.e.
bash snail-like object around to see if it cracks, or bash it to make it
soft enough to swallow. Has anyone offered snails to their day geckos?
(We used to have a cat that did an excellent Rikki-Tikki-Tavi act with
an embroidered camera strap. Later, in a herpetology book, I found the
script she was following - "how an experienced cat kills Egyptian cobras".)
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