{"id":34995,"date":"2013-12-06T15:11:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T07:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?p=34995"},"modified":"2023-06-24T17:23:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T09:23:08","slug":"javan-myna-takes-a-gecko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2013\/12\/06\/javan-myna-takes-a-gecko\/","title":{"rendered":"Javan Myna takes a gecko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/MynaJ-gecko-JasperLim-1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/MynaJ-gecko-JasperLim-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"MynaJ-gecko [JasperLim] - 1\" width=\"590\" height=\"787\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/MynaJ-gecko-JasperLim-1.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/MynaJ-gecko-JasperLim-1-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did a quick search and mynahs eating geckos have not been documented on BESG. Hence I&#8217;m sending you some pictures I took of the event. Unfortunately I did not witness the Javan Mynah (<em>Acridotheres javanicus<\/em>) actually hunting the gecko, but the damage to the head and the missing tail of the gecko suggests it might have been killed by a predator.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/MynaJ-gecko-JasperLim-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/MynaJ-gecko-JasperLim-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"MynaJ-gecko [JasperLim] - 3\" width=\"590\" height=\"664\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/MynaJ-gecko-JasperLim-3.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/MynaJ-gecko-JasperLim-3-266x300.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought it was interesting to see interaction between creatures that live so close to us (with reference to the post of a plantian squirrel eating a mynah chick too <a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2013\/11\/26\/javan-myna-caught-by-a-plantain-squirrel\/\">LINK<\/a>).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jasper Lim<\/strong><br \/>\nSingapore<br \/>\n29th November 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I did a quick search and mynahs eating geckos have not been documented on BESG. Hence I&#8217;m sending you some pictures I took of the event. Unfortunately I did not witness the Javan Mynah (Acridotheres javanicus) actually hunting the gecko, but the damage to the head and the missing tail of the gecko suggests it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":34996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[216],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}