Mound defence by the Australian Bush Turkey

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Hi Laurie, 

Standard behaviour for brush turkeys in defence against potential nest 
predators that I've seen is to try and cover them up with stuff. I've now seen 
it with a lace monitor, yellow-spotted monitors, eastern water dragons, agile 
wallabies, a brush-tail possum, an eastern brown snake and people - quite 
annoying when you're quietly trying to enjoy lunch. I think the males do it 
when they are so completely hormonally driven that they lose all common sense 
(as if they had any in the first place). The ones I've seen do it have that 
vacant look in the eye, the highly coloured, distended wattles, etc.

Cheers, 

Eric

> On 22 Mar 2015, at 7:22 am, "Shirley Cook" <> wrote:
> 
> Daryl Jones is the person to ask about this - he studied medapodes for many 
> year.
> Shirley Cook
>