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Post by Jane on Nov 8, 2022 5:17:01 GMT -7
I have a crab apple tree in the garden. The crab apples are a bit smaller than cherries and every year the wood pigeons come to eat them. The branches of the tree are not really big enough to support the wood pigeons so they are wobbling around and trying to get the crab apples. It takes quite a bit of effort to get the crab apples off and then they are sometimes too big for them to swallow (they swallow them whole).
It must be very frustrating for the wood pigeons, it is a pity they can't use their feet, like parrots.
Jane
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Post by Haz on Nov 8, 2022 9:04:09 GMT -7
What we call crab apples here are the size of a mandarin orange. When you mentioned that they swallowed them whole, I wondered how. Now you explained the size, it makes more sense.
Haz
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Post by Adele on Feb 2, 2023 9:54:57 GMT -7
In Australia, we were at a petting zoo and they had a large capuchin monkey enclosure. They had a crab apple tree nearby, and this little basket mechanism, where we could pick crab apples and put them in the basked. Then the monkeys would use a pulley to raise the basket up to this offshoot from their enclosure and then grab the crab apples. Both my kids, and the monkeys got a huge kick out of the set up. They spent around 20 minutes picking and feeding them crab apples. Sometimes my kids would pick ones that weren't ripe enough and the monkeys would reject them. The whole thing was quite interesting.
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Post by Haz on Feb 3, 2023 8:39:23 GMT -7
That is one way the zoo gets help feeding the monkeys. Let the spectators do the work.
Haz
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