Abstract
A young Bubo bengalensis was encountered in a ravine near Ousteri Lake. It was monitored for a period of 6 months. During this period it showed the broken wing display only once, which is considered to be exclusive to adults in defense of their nests, eggs, or young.
Highlights
In this short communication I show that broken wing display’ (BWD) is exhibited by young B. bengalensis and present photographic evidence
Description of behavior: We first came upon this owlet after it ISSN Online 0974–7907 Print 0974–7893 had left its nest on 1 April 2001
The subject was well camouflaged before being disturbed 2 more than one unrecognized facet of behavior—just like the spread winged agnostic displays of Bubo bengalensis (Ramanujam 2010)—and until these have been recorded in detail and sorted out keeping in mind the morphology, causation and function, there will always be ambiguity and a sense of unfulfillment to any exercise that aims to address the issue of paratrepsis in any life form
Summary
In this short communication I show that BWD is exhibited by young B. bengalensis and present photographic evidence. We came across a nidicolous and semi-altrical young (protoptile) B. bengalensis in a ravine in Merveille (11058’N & 79046’E) near Ousteri Lake in the vicinity of Puducherry in southern India on 28 February 2001. 40 days old (beginning of prebasic moult obvious in photographs), it exhibited BWD.
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