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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. In many cultures, different types of brain are considered a delicacy.
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 ...
A UC Davis study found a population of Bay Area ground squirrels hunting and eating voles, suggesting the species may be more flexible in its diet than previously thought.
[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 ...
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. In Western popular culture its consumption is ...
An unexpected shift in squirrel behavior. Smith and her colleagues observed the squirrels’ meat-eating behavior during a study period from June 10 to July 30.
These parrots regularly eat seeds and unripe fruits containing alkaloids and other toxins that render the seeds and fruits bitter and even lethal. Because many of these chemicals become positively charged in the acidic stomach, they bind to clay minerals which have negatively charged cation-exchange sites, and are thereby rendered safe.