In the past 3 months I'v noticed that my baby Burmese star always became active while the ground was wet, it got excited when seeing earthworms and caught them. In September I visited Taipei Zoo, one of the Geochelone platynota breeding centers in the world, where one of the staffs told me that Burmese stars loved to eat animal matters, they used to feed Burmese stars with pinky mice once or twice in a month.
A few weeks ago I visited one of my best friends, he also kept some Burmese stars. As I stepped into the enclosure of his Burmese stars, one of the adult males hunted me, I ask my old friend whether the Burmese star treated me as food or enemy? He answered: "food!". So I stopped to see what was going to happen. To my astonishment, that male Burmese star really kept biting me on my left shoe!
And 2 days ago, I offered my tortoise with the carrion of a bird along with the fresh salad, tried to observe what would the Burmese star baby choose for food. Not too surprise, it devoured the bird but not the greens. And this time I recorded a video.
I do not intend to feed Burmese star with animal matter regularly. I just ponder why the Burmese stars in fact LOVE to eat animal matters, however we always presume that they belong to herbivorous but not omnivorous?
Erich
[video=youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkNLuo7XryQ&feature=player_embedded[/video]
A few weeks ago I visited one of my best friends, he also kept some Burmese stars. As I stepped into the enclosure of his Burmese stars, one of the adult males hunted me, I ask my old friend whether the Burmese star treated me as food or enemy? He answered: "food!". So I stopped to see what was going to happen. To my astonishment, that male Burmese star really kept biting me on my left shoe!
And 2 days ago, I offered my tortoise with the carrion of a bird along with the fresh salad, tried to observe what would the Burmese star baby choose for food. Not too surprise, it devoured the bird but not the greens. And this time I recorded a video.
I do not intend to feed Burmese star with animal matter regularly. I just ponder why the Burmese stars in fact LOVE to eat animal matters, however we always presume that they belong to herbivorous but not omnivorous?
Erich
[video=youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkNLuo7XryQ&feature=player_embedded[/video]