A giant tortoise was caught stalking, killing and eating a baby bird
New video shows that the lumbering reptiles really are cold-blooded
![giant tortoise lunging toward a bird on a log](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/082021_jl_turtle-v-bird_feat.jpg?fit=1030%2C580&ssl=1)
A Seychelles giant tortoise lunges towards a noddy tern chick in the first documented instance of a tortoise hunting. Moments after this frame was captured, the tortoise killed the chick, later swallowing it whole.
Anna Zora, Frégate Island Foundation