Hamster rats in France are turning into cold-blooded assassins because of an extremely popular plant

Hamster mice even eat their children. What kind of plants do you think is causing this?

The Tiger also doesn't eat meat - the saying imbued with the people of our people. But in France, wild hamsters are turning into cold-blooded assassins, eating their own babies. And according to a recent report, the cause comes from an extremely popular plant in the world. That is corn.

Specifically, the hamster is in a critical state of France that has been eating too much corn, leading to the risk of extremely large meat consumption compared to omnivorous rats.

The cause of the incident is due to the method of single-plant cultivation in a large area of ​​people. We have fields that only grow potatoes, whole corn, or whole rice. According to some previous studies, such fields are causing the number of insects to help pollinate plants drop sharply. Now, even animals are negatively affected, including this rare hamster.

" Basically, most of the species that have small habitats in the field will have a" poisonous "diet, because humans usually plant 1-2 kinds of plants on thousands of hectares " - Gerard Baumgart, director of the Center for Environmental Protection Research in Alsace said.

Rats eating corn are at risk of killing their children

To determine the harmful effects of this diet, experts performed an experiment in which two groups of mice were fed corn and wheat flour. The energy in the diet is the same, and both groups give birth almost equally.

As a result, 80% of the 2nd generation of the group ate flour to survive, while the figure was only 5% in the group eating corn. According to observation, it seems that this kind of seed has made mouse mothers no longer want to be mothers. They no longer lay babies in the nest, even after laying off is . devoured. In addition, the rats also showed some unusual manifestations, such as running around or attacking people who fed them.

" The corn-based diet has also been shown to be related to homicide rates, suicide, and even cannibalism ." - experts said.

Signs that mice that lack vitamin B3 - which causes pellagra in humans, can cause people to act abnormally. To test the hypothesis, experts added B3 to rations of corn-eating rats. The results bring about very positive changes - maternal mice no longer eat their children.

"The fact that an endangered animal suffers additional threats is really worrisome. Obviously, the change in farming methods is very urgent," Baumgart said.

The study was published in the Proceedings of the Royal B. Science Institute.