RE: The Right-to-Left Shunt of Crocodilians Serves Digestion

[Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>]

Quoting "Richard W. Travsky" <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>:

> On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Hope, Sylvia wrote:
>
> > Birds lost it right about the time the first bird got up and tried 
> > to fly off
> > on a full stomach.
>
> Well, this apparently does happen ;)   but the examples I foud were for
> eagles
>
> http://www.pbase.com/joshuacripps/image/82053102
> 2-year-old bald eagle. Too gorged on food to fly away from us or the 
> badgers that kept pestering him

Well, I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure that's a Red-tailed Hawk.

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