NotSkywalker

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Proud (?) owner of two copies of Alone in the Dark (2008). Formerly the 420th fastest Furi speedrunner on PS4. He/him, 23

Excerpt from the study "Vole hunting: novel predatory and carnivorous behavior by California ground squirrels" (Smith et al. 2024) Excerpt reads: "There is some evidence of meat-eating in California ground squirrels. Despite its primarily granivorous diet, previous studies have documented occasional consumption of invertebrates (Evans and Holdenried 1943; Stanton 1944; Baker 1984; Carlton and Hodder 2003) and avian eggs or nestlings of killdeer, California quail, bobwhite quail, ring-necked pheasant, mourning dove, dark-eyed junco, and American robin (Grinnell and Storer 1924; Emlen and Glading 1938; Stanton 1944; Fitch 1948; Linsdale 1946; Leopold 1977; Baker 1984; Purcell and Verner 1999; Yeh et al. 2007Y; Bataille and Baldassarre 1993). It has also been reported to eat eggs of domestic chickens (Grinnell and Dixon 1918; Howell 1938) and a small fish, the California grunion (Olson 1950). Fitch (1948) observed it consuming, but not directly killing, young desert cottontails, adult pocket gophers, and kangaroo rats." Link to study: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10164-024-00832-6
Screenshot from the game Mass Effect. An armored personel carrier drives past a pyramid in the middle of a rocky wasteland.