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Lamb brains sold as food Gulai otak, cattle's brain curry from Indonesia. The brain, like most other internal organs, or offal, can serve as nourishment.Brains used for nourishment include those of pigs, squirrels, rabbits, horses, cattle, monkeys, chickens, camels, fish, lamb, and goats.
Monkey brains is a supposed dish consisting of, at least, partially, the brain of some species of monkey or ape. While animal brains have been consumed in various cuisines (e.g. eggs and brains or fried brain sandwiches ), there is debate about whether monkey brains have actually been consumed.
[36] [46] [47] A 2015 case of CJD in a Pittsburgh man who had eaten squirrel brains played out similarly: the media seized on the patient's unconventional food choice, positing squirrel brains as the source of his disease. [48] The doctor who made the initial report later clarified that he had not meant to assert the squirrel meat was the cause ...
Squirrels typically eat acorns, seeds, nuts and fruit, but are known to occasionally eat fresh carrion or roadkill, insects, eggs or other discarded food.
This kind of squirrel was previously thought to eat mostly nuts and grains, but the study suggests that this type of squirrel is more of a so-called "opportunistic omnivore" and hunting may be a ...
Squirrels can cache as many as 3,000 nuts each season, but remembering where all the nuts are stored seems impossible. Unlike most small mammals whose brains shrink during winter due to reduced ...
Squirrels, being primarily herbivores, eat a wide variety of plants, as well as nuts, seeds, conifer cones, fruits, fungi, and green vegetation. Some squirrels, however, also consume meat, especially when faced with hunger. [21] [32] Squirrels have been known to eat small birds, young snakes, and smaller rodents, as well as bird eggs and insects.
Scientists have for the first time ever found “shocking” evidence of carnivorous behaviour in squirrels — hunting and eating voles in California.. Ground squirrels are often seen stuffing ...