Table of Contents The Quick Answer The desert bandicoot (Perameles eremiana) ate ants, termites, and beetle larvae, dug up with its long snout and clawed front feet, rounded out with…
Gilbert’s potoroo eats fungi. Not “mostly plants with some mushrooms mixed in” — actual underground fungi, the kind you’d need a shovel to find, make up more than 90% of…
Figs make up roughly 60% of what an Eastern hoolock gibbon eats when fruit is available, and fruit overall accounts for around 65% of feeding time across the year. That’s…
Table of Contents TLDR Northern muriquis are leaf specialists first, fruit opportunists second. Across a year of feeding records at Fazenda Montes Claros, leaves made up 51% of their diet,…
Type “animals only found in Scotland” into Google and you’ll get red deer, otters, and puffins staring back at you from every result. None of those are endemic to Scotland….
TLDR Muskrats are mostly herbivores. Cattails, rushes, water lilies, sedges, and pondweed make up the bulk of what they eat, and they’ll go after the roots and stems as readily…
TLDR Common wallaroos — also called euros — eat grasses, forbs, and shrub foliage, switching their ratio with the seasons rather than sticking to one menu. Here’s the diet at…
The Quick Answer Brazilian porcupines (Coendou prehensilis) are strict herbivores. Their diet is almost entirely: No meat, no insects, no small animals. If you’ve seen a claim otherwise, it’s wrong,…
Hungary doesn’t have crocodiles, big cats, or anything that will chase you down a trail. What it does have is a short list of animals that occasionally put people in…