- Joined
- May 2, 2005
- Messages
- 1,863
Now if I can only get him to eat tofu....
I had read that Black Rats had been seen raiding bird and chicken nests in the wild but just kinda dismissed it as a myth. Some of the camp groups at the zoo found some pics of one at another zoo eating a chicken egg, so I decided to see if our 17 year old male BRS would like one. Surprisingly he began to eat it with no coaxing. I held it in front of his mouth with some tongs and he grabbed it after only a few seconds of smelling it. I had put a crack in the egg just to make sure he could crush it after swallowing it. The whole thing took about 20 minutes start to finish. Here are a few pictures taken by one of my interns.
I had read that Black Rats had been seen raiding bird and chicken nests in the wild but just kinda dismissed it as a myth. Some of the camp groups at the zoo found some pics of one at another zoo eating a chicken egg, so I decided to see if our 17 year old male BRS would like one. Surprisingly he began to eat it with no coaxing. I held it in front of his mouth with some tongs and he grabbed it after only a few seconds of smelling it. I had put a crack in the egg just to make sure he could crush it after swallowing it. The whole thing took about 20 minutes start to finish. Here are a few pictures taken by one of my interns.