garbage guts

[baxtor]

Had a callout today that turned out to be a small tiger about 1/2 metre long. He was cold and slow and quite calm but during the afternoon he has regurgitated some recent food items, normal enough occurence but some of the food suggests to me that tigers may in fact be carrion eaters.
Along with the frog the pic clearly shows a very decomposed section of mouse and dead maggots.

 

[pythonmum]

Very interesting. At the Reptile Park Xmas do, there was a RBB in an outdoor pit biting bits off a dead fish that had been hung there for the turtles. It was amazing to watch it wriggle around to get actual bites of food. Perhaps we don't give elapids enough credit for flexible feeding strategies.