Squirrels hunting and eating meat
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Squirrels hunting and eating meat
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Re: Squirrels hunting and eating meat
#2Everything is an opportunistic carnivore. I once came across a turtle chowing down on a dead frog.
Re: Squirrels hunting and eating meat
#3Everything is an opportunistic carnivore. I once came across a turtle chowing down on a dead frog.
Apparently cows are happy to eat nestlings if they happen to find a bird's nest while they're grazing.
If you're an animal, there's no food better than meat.
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#4> along with Sonja Wild of UC Davis, who also contributed to the study
I love me some nominative determinism.
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#5Probably about 20 years ago, near Boston, I remember noticing a reddish-brown squirrel sitting in a tree gnawing on a fried chicken leg and found the sight mildly absurd.
Re: Squirrels hunting and eating meat
#6Everything is an opportunistic carnivore. I once came across a turtle chowing down on a dead frog.
Apparently cows are happy to eat nestlings if they happen to find a bird's nest while they're grazing. If you're an animal, there's no food better than meat.
Everything will eat anything if its hungry enough but to say there is no better food is a broad statement I'm not comfortable agreeing with.
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#7Everything is an opportunistic carnivore. I once came across a turtle chowing down on a dead frog.
Apparently cows are happy to eat nestlings if they happen to find a bird's nest while they're grazing. If you're an animal, there's no food better than meat.
Horses snacking chicks. Videos easy to be found.
Re: Squirrels hunting and eating meat
#8Everything is an opportunistic carnivore. I once came across a turtle chowing down on a dead frog.
Apparently cows are happy to eat nestlings if they happen to find a bird's nest while they're grazing. If you're an animal, there's no food better than meat.
That would only be true if you have the stomach biome to digest and extract the nutrients.
What is the point of eating something that is hard to process and digest and has no nutritional value for you
For herbivores, meat is objectively bad food .
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apparently cows are happy to eat nestlings if they happen to find a bird's nest while they're grazing. If you're an animal, there's no food better than meat.
Everything will eat anything if its hungry enough but to say there is no better food is a broad statement I'm not comfortable agreeing with.
"Better" is kind of a vague term. A more precise and limited statement is that meat has the highest protein quality index. There could be some other disadvantages, depending on your species.
Re: Squirrels hunting and eating meat
#10I knew it.