Flexible Food Preparation

Artemy Voikhansky, via Wikimedia Commons.

Field observations of Arabian babblers show that the birds transport different caterpillar species to distinct substrates depending on how they need to process the caterpillar for eating. The findings, reported in the journal Animal Cognition, are among the few to describe flexible food processing methods in wild animals.

Read more at my Animal Minds blog: Birds’ Preparation Methods Vary with the Meal.