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RE: On feeding crayfish/crawdads

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Posted by: jburokas at Fri Aug 3 18:16:56 2012  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by jburokas ]  
   

Varanus mertensi certainly do feed on crayfish (aka "yabbies" ) in the NT. They root around on the bottom and feel for the movement of the crawdads and snatch them with perfect aim underwater. There's been some awesome NatGeo type underwater camera work I saw somewhere capturing this on TV.

   

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