Of flies and ants: New ant decapitation behavior of Dohrniphora flies

Date:

January 6, 2015

Source:

Pensoft Publishers

Summary:

While watching tiny flies in tropical forests in Brazil, Giar-Ann Kung puzzledly remarked to Brian Brown 'they are cutting the ant heads off!' This unexpected find led to the discovery of a grisly new type of behavior.

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Woman's horror after she discovered five of her rare pet parrots had been DECAPITATED Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2194114/Womans-horror-discovered-rare-pet-parrots-DECAPITATED.html#ixzz24lU6O9sU

• Cherie Morales, 55, found five of her seven rare Greater Vasa parrots brutally killed
• Three of the birds were decapitated, and two others had their necks snapped. 
• One of two surviving Greater Vasas returned 
• Two African gray parrots in the aviary were unharmed.
• Morales is offering $1,000 reward to help arrest the bird killer.

A retired New York City police officer living in Bennett, Colorado, came home earlier this week to a scene of carnage, discovering five of her rare pet parrots brutally murdered and dismembered.

Cherie Morales, 55, said someone broke into her 12-by-16-foot backyard aviary and slaughtered most of its feathered inhabitants, among them Greater Vasa parrots.

‘When I saw that gate open, I immediately thought, “Oh no,”’ Morales told ABC7. ‘Then, I started seeing bodies and bodies without heads.’

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2194114/Womans-horror-discovered-rare-pet-parrots-DECAPITATED.html#ixzz24lUG37jY