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FEEDING HABITS OF THE PALM‐NUT VULTURE GYPOHEERAX.
Author(s) -
Thomson A. Landsborough,
Moreau R. E.
Publication year - 1957
Publication title -
ibis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.933
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1474-919X
pISSN - 0019-1019
DOI - 10.1111/j.1474-919x.1957.tb03053.x
Subject(s) - palm oil , captivity , palm , nut , fish <actinopterygii> , geography , vulture , food habits , biology , ecology , fishery , agroforestry , environmental health , medicine , physics , structural engineering , quantum mechanics , engineering
Summary. The literature on the food of Gypohierax is reviewed. First‐hand evidence of the bird's catching live fish in the Gambia is cited. Up‐to‐date information is given about the ecology of the bird in East Africa, with particular reference to its occurrence in the absence of oil‐palms and its eating Raffia fruit. On the basis of this and of the survival of Gypohierax in zoos, it is concluded that the vitamin‐rich oil‐palm fruit is not essential to the bird; but one that had been in captivity for 11 years, when presented with the fruit, preferred that to its usual meat.