#opossums — Public Fediverse posts

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐒🦎 Bearded #capuchins in northeastern #Brazil usually eat fruit, but researchers recorded 446 hunts of #lizards, #snakes and #opossums over 5,000 hours, concentrated when #plant foods ran low. Scientists link this seasonal prey-hunting to a possible stepping stone in early human meat-eating.

👉 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-fruit-is-scarce-these-monkeys-hunt-animals-the-behavior-may-offer-clues-about-the-origins-of-humans-meat-eating-habits-180989412/

#primatology #animals #wildlife #behavior #monkeys #meat #evolution #humanevolution #science #biology #zoology #nature #research