Sentences with phrase «feasting on rodents»

Much like humans, grizzlies are clever scavengers, feasting on rodents, trout, roots, nuts, berries, insects, and dead animals.

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While alternate - day fasting leads to calorie restriction over a two - day period in many rodent species, in some strains of mice, the animals managed to compensate for the calorie deficit created on fast days by increasing their intake on feast days twofold and thus keeping the total calorie intake over a two day period at the same level as in mice fed an ad libitum diet (17).

When an alternate - day fasting diet is implemented, overall calorie restriction and weight reduction occurs in most rodent species, indicating that the restriction on the fasting day isn't compensated fully on feasting days when food is offered ad libitum (18 - 34).

Bird feeders also attract predators; coyotes may prey on songbirds and, in addition, on the rodents or rabbits that come to feast on the spillage