Animal world
Orangutans eat baby meat
One scientist saw two orangutan chicks in Indonesia. People have never witnessed this behavior in any primates.
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Animal world
Rats eat with newspapers
A mouse joking around with life when it comes to painting pieces of meat just under the nose of a leopard, in a reserve in southern England.
Animal world
Cannibalism helps rattlesnakes recover after birth
Researchers from Mexico, the United States and Spain have recently obtained the first quantitative description of the cannibalistic behavior of Crotalus polystictus afte…
Animal world
Small males easily become meals for their children
Female spiders are greedy predators, they eat a lot of prey, sometimes even their spouses.
Animal world
Eagle with an artificial beak
The white eagle named Beauty in America revived after being fitted with an artificial beak to help him eat and preen. The animal broke the mine by being hit by a poacher.
Animal world
Why do bats eat fruit and eat the whole land?
Any child knows not to eat the green part of a tomato, but to cut it off. The reason behind this is that those green parts contain secondary plant compounds that adverse…
Animal world
Animals also use stimulant drugs
Egyptian vultures often eat large amounts of cow dung and goat manure to help secrete a kind of plant pigment that makes their pale faces mustard color attractive. A mal…
Animal world
Why do some species eat their children?
Eating meat sounds like an impossible thing, but actually some species from fish to birds still do it. Scientists are not sure why this behavior arises, but a new study…
Animal world
Birds set a record for 9 days without a break
A bird with red hair (godwit) flew from Alaska to New Zealand for 9 days without stopping to eat. New Zealand and US scientists have followed this 11,500km journey throu…
Animal world
Too hungry, snakes eat their hearts
Some snakes can survive without food for two years, by digesting their own hearts, a new study reveals. Others survive by hatching their heads to increase their chances…
Animal world
Eat snakes by compressing prey
Snakes can eat prey larger than it ... But how do snakes eat prey? The mechanism of snake feeding has just been found: It compresses the prey and slowly digests it.
Animal world
Pythons digest even prey bones
A new study found that these pythons are capable of absorbing calcium from the bones of prey that they swallow before, and that is a source of nutrients to supplement th…
Animal world
Bats also eat snacks
Some people have sweet cravings after drinking too much alcohol. And according to a new report last Sunday by Professor Francisco Sanchez of Ben-Gurion University in the…
Animal world
Cannibalism often happens alone
Cannibalism is common in animals, including the ancient humans. Because the pathogen can jump from a victim to a predator, it can be deduced that the disease is easily s…