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Hungry, Hungry Animals: 10 Unique Stories of Consumption


Animals  (tags: Animals, Habitats, Food, Health, Nature, Ecosystems )

Katie
- 12 days ago - webecoist.com
A recent study detailed that nearly 50 percent of dogs and almost 60 percent of cats are overweight or obese due to high-calorie diets and insufficient exercise, sparking questions in this author's mind about the eating habits of animals in the wild.
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Bruce Anderson (29)
Monday November 9, 2009, 4:58 pm
For me, this was a very interesting and informative article as it covered a subject I had never given much thought to and that is the culinary diets of wildlife; what was preferred, what was shunned.

This evaluation is not just a curious interest note as it also researched adaptability in wildlife eating habits and the absorption of sunlight by lizards to acquire vitamin D while basking. These studies can definitely interrelate to human eating habits and conditions such as junk food cravings and exactly how lizards know they've received the right amount of sunlight for D conversion.

It also pointed out the demise to wildlife with man's fetish for dumping plastic into Earth's environments.

One good article this was...
 
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