fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 7 days agoWonder what their cousins liked to snack on...mander.xyzimagemessage-square39linkfedilinkarrow-up16
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minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 days ago And how do the crocs know which fruit to eat? Instinct i guess? The digestive tract is a chem lab that analyzes nutrient contents. You’ve eaten it once, you get a craving once you require something of it.
minus-squarebryophile@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 days agoSo they go around eating plants they don’t know to see if they like them and get a craving for them later? Doesn’t seem very crocodile-like
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 days agoWell, at least human children do that.
Instinct i guess? The digestive tract is a chem lab that analyzes nutrient contents. You’ve eaten it once, you get a craving once you require something of it.
So they go around eating plants they don’t know to see if they like them and get a craving for them later? Doesn’t seem very crocodile-like
Well, at least human children do that.