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Unlike most birds of prey, the secretarybird is largely terrestrial, hunting its prey on foot. Adults hunt in pairs and sometimes as loose familial flocks, stalking through the habitat with long strides.

Prey may consist of insects such as locusts, other grasshoppers, wasps, and beetles, ot small vertebrates like rodents, frogs, lizards, small tortoises, and birds such as warblers, larks, doves, small hornbills, and domestic chickens.

They occasionally prey on larger mammals such as hedgehogs, mongooses, small felids such as cheetah cubs, striped polecats, young gazelles, and both young and full-grown hares.

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[–] Crunchypotat77@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

It's absolutely mental that it kills it's primary prey i.e. Snakes, by punching the fuck outta it.