Defensive Vomiting
If you're attacked you could run away, fight back...or you could barf. Gross!
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Paper on Eurasian (European) roller defensive vomiting: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Bizarre paper from the 1970s showing the effects of fulmar vomit on different birds: http://bit.ly/2eGLwUk
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Eurasian roller vomiting
Parejo et al. 2012
Courtesy Dr. Deseada Parejo
MS ZI ZO Baby northern Fulmar seabird vomits defending itself in rocky corner/Iceland
Getty/Discovery FootageSource
European Roller - coracias garrulus, Hungary
Shutterstock/David Havel
European roller (coracias garrulus) on the nest
Shutterstock/Porojnicu Stelian
Eurasian Roller-5357
Wikimedia Commons/Rudraksha Chodankar
Northern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) flying, side-on
Wikimedia Commons/Avenue
Defensive Regurgitation
Wikimedia Commons/Siman Wagen
Oiled bird 3
Wikimedia Commons/Brocken Inaglory
Adventure World, Shirahama, Japan
Flickr/Pelican
Camel Spit
Flickr/Jason Borneman
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Cockroaches
Freesound/StateAardvark
(used with permission from author)
Squeak Pack/squeak_10
Freesound/Corsica_S
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