Originally Posted By: Blaine
If catching this Kingfisher behavior on video is of great significance then OK. All of your feedback will determine.


I think it would be significant. Heck if you could document that this Kingfisher is purposefully dropping fish into a body of water I think that would be very significant. Of course you would probably have to check with Bill Cody or one of our other resident scientists to determine what kind of control measures would need to occur in order to make the determination valid. I don't know perhaps digging multiple small ponds to see if the Kingfisher stocks each one.

I don't doubt that you observed this behavior. Heck it wasn't that many years ago that we believed only humans used tools and that tool use was a disguishing factor (probably not the correct terminology) between man and animals. Then some wise cracking Chimps were observed making a branch into a termite retreiving devise and whammo (like the sound effects?) suddenly we learned that certain animials also make and use tools.

We are constantantly learning about nature and I would imagine that animials in nature are constantly modifying their behavior to survive.

But what do I know I'm only a bean counter.


JHAP
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