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These Squirrels Are Hunting and Eating Meat and Scientists Only Just Noticed (www.zmescience.com)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago (7 children)

An article from last year:

https://www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news/carnivorous-feeding-squirrels-documented-california

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago (6 children)

This had been known since the 50's in urban areas.

If you give a mammal little choice and they are desperate, they will eat anything. Same with predator fowl like Hawks and Pelicans. This is all well documented. Rabbits are also known to eat meat if necessary.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I’ve read, many years ago, how the common grey squirrel ( which is ubiquitous in the eastern USA) will hunt mice and eat only their brains, presumably for missing nutrients

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I live in a port city crawling with rats and mice. They are so many that it's common to see freshly dead rodents on the bike trail after they were hit by e bikes.

What's crazy is how quickly they get scavenged by crows and squirrels. They dissappear almost immediately.

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