Secret to Avoiding Extinction: Don't Be a Picky Eater
 

Secret to Avoiding Extinction: Don't Be a Picky Eater
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Finicky eaters usually do **t survive mass extinction events, suggests a new study on prehistoric big cats.

Cougars, which will eat meat, guts, bones — the proverbial whole enchilada, survived the mass extinction event 12,000 years ago, while their finicky cousins the saber tooth cat and American lion bit the dust. The study, published in the journal Biology Letters, determined that eating habits probably saved cougars, and possibly jaguars too.

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"Before the Late Pleistocene extinction, six species of large cats roamed the plains and forests of **rth America," co-author Larisa R.G. DeSantis, assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences at Vanderbilt University, said in a press release. "Only two — the cougar and jaguar — survived. The goal of our study was to examine the possibility that dietary factors can explain the cougar’s survival." Read more...

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