Show thrush hrush has own method of slaughtering the shelled snails to get the goody in dl districts tracts where snails are it Is no rare taiti liing says saya a writer valter to come across n stone utilized is a slaughter block ayme by some ar thrush even if the elrd is not caught aught in the net act numerous broken ind and empty shells scitt red in the neighborhood betray flip tiace place where the hie mollusks mollus hs have been done to death the method adopted by the thrush is s simply that of dropping a snail from a height time and again until the he shell Is broken and the succulent body within Is 19 ekpo expo exposed jed to the captors beak beah but the anvil Is sometimes made anade use of in a different way and with a different end in view the 0 other 1 r day in the depths of a highland birch wood an observer came upon such a sacrificial stone at which it thrush wast was busily occupied field glasses made evident that not a snail tout but a common black slug was his captive this he grasped by the middle with his beak dashing it repeat repeatedly adly with resounding smacks upon the stone whence it occasionally rebounded only to be caught and hammered once more subsequent examination of the stone revealed reven led ath what whai effect the operation had bad been carried out but whitt what of its purpose here was no shell to be broken it may be that the thrush simply wished to kill hill its prey but the tact fact that thrushes swallow loll 1011 wrig gEng worms without hesitation r rendora enders this explanation improbable it is more likely that the skin of the slug was too th thick ck and coarse to be palatable and that the thrush was simply endeavoring to lash dash out the edible portions within or that it was wag attempting to ren henrt r the skin more tender jy by a m method na ani logoua to the domestic batting Nat ting ot of a steak |