Wild boar piglet. Image via Pexels. Wild boars might not be the first animal that comes to mind as a snake adversary, but these omnivorous animals frequently consume snakes as part of their varied ...
Typically, closely related animal species have difficulty coexisting because they are competing for similar resources. Despite eating the same figs, binturong, small-toothed palm, masked palm, and ...
Design and results Using 16S rRNA-tagged sequencing as well as plasma and urinary metabolomic platforms, we compared measures of dietary intake, gut microbiota composition and the plasma metabolome ...
"In general, the molar morphology largely agrees with a plant-dominated omnivorous diet ... There are a few animals emerging from the Late Cretaceous that are bigger than what we anticipated ...
"The trophic levels of the latter three species are in the range of omnivorous animals. These results suggest that the varying degree of consumption of animal sources, such as insects, is the key ...