Gentoo penguins propose with pebbles. If she accepts the stone, the bond is sealed or strengthened, so Edinburgh Zoo scatters colored pebbles every breeding season for males to court their mates.
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TIL that kangaroos can pause their pregnancy by up to a year if the conditions aren’t right. Did you know this? And gestation is only 3 or 4 weeks! Healesville Sanctuary is terrific. Here’s Bernice, the black-breasted buzzard after using a rock to crack open an emu egg.
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A large raptor on the ground with her wings open, her trainer behind, picking up the remnants of a broken shell from a green lawn.
The messy waves from post-tropical cyclone Rachel changed the hunting tactics of these brown pelicans: their forage fish are presumably driven onshore and trapped by the churn and the pelicans can just float in the shallow water and pick them off.
