Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru
10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2011
The experience is one of the ornithological highlights in the world. Geophagy, the intentional consumption of soil by vertebrates, has long been documented in a number of bird and mammal species – including wide-spread use by humans – which consume soil to increase absorption of certain minerals not naturally occurring in the local diet.
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