TLDR Wild Siberian chipmunks (Tamias sibiricus) eat seeds, nuts, fungi, fruit, insects, and occasionally small birds, lizards, or eggs — and what dominates their diet actually changes by season, with…
TLDR Wild Egyptian spiny mice (Acomys cahirinus) eat seeds, nuts, fruit, green leaves, insects, spiders, snails, and the occasional scrap of carrion, raiding grain stores and crops when they live…
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…
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,…
Lowland pacas eat mostly fallen fruit. Mangoes, avocados, guava, and papaya make up the bulk of a wild paca’s diet, supplemented with leaves, roots, tubers, seeds, and nuts when fruit…
Table of Contents The Quick Answer Bank voles (Myodes glareolus) are opportunistic omnivores, not the strict grass-grazers most people picture when they hear “vole.” Their diet runs on hazelnuts, blackberries,…
TLDR Brazilian agoutis (most commonly the red-rumped agouti, Dasyprocta leporina) eat mostly fruit, nuts, and seeds — with Brazil nuts and Araucaria pine seeds as regional specialties — plus roots,…
Hoary marmots are strict herbivores, and their diet is almost entirely green: grasses, sedges, and the flowering plants that carpet alpine meadows in summer. If you’ve ever watched one of…
Columbian ground squirrels spend about eight months of the year asleep underground, so the four months they’re awake are essentially one long eating contest. Everything they do above ground —…