TABLE 1.

A description of the dietary contents and timing as the ibis developed, up until the point that they were split into two dietary treatment groups (anthropogenic and natural diet)

Diet phase	N	CaptiveDays	Delivery	Components
Gruel (n = 20)	20	0–14	Oral gavage or hand fed	Lake smelt, mazuri flamingo breeder pellets, dried egg yolk, CaCO3, Vionate, Stuart Thiamin E paste, Solgar chelated copper, water
Solid diet (n = 20)	20	15–45	Platters	Lake smelt, mazuri flamingo breeder pellets, dried egg yolk, CaCO3, Vionate, Stuart Thiamin E paste, Solgar chelated copper, water
Solid diet + seafood (n = 20)	20	46–113	Platters	Lake smelt, shrimp, whole crayfish, mazuri flamingo breeder pellets, fresh egg yolk, vionate
Final natural diet (n = 10)	10	113–171	Platters	20% lake smelt, 20% shrimp, 20% whole crayfish, 20% mazuri flamingo breeder pellets, 20% fresh egg yolk, <1% vionate
Final anthropogenic diet (n = 10)	10	113–171	Platters	6.6% lake smelt, 6.6% shrimp, 6.6% whole crayfish, 20% mazuri flamingo breeder pellets, 20% fresh egg yolk, <1% vionate, 40% white bread