Other common symptoms include fever, headache, deformity of the nose, weakness, dizziness and sore throat. Complications of epistaxis include nausea and vomiting due to the swallowing of blood. More serious complications can include anemia, hypovolemic shock, airway obstruction and very rarely, death.
Fully grown Gambel's quails subsist upon a diet that is 90 percent vegetarian. Insects remain in their diet as a supplement, especially during nesting season when their caloric needs are greater.
In the wild: ferrets are obligate carnivores, which means they eat a mostly carnivorous diet of other small mammals, such as rabbits, possums, hedgehogs and rodents. They also eat birds, bird eggs, reptiles, fish, amphibians and invertebrates. Wild ferrets may also eat carrion. At the zoo: commercial ferret chow.