Woodrats’ dietary choices driven by constraints

Researchers discovered that the costs of using too few or too many resources strongly influence dietary diversity in wild woodrats, complicating how we think about food webs, resiliency and invasive species.

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Woodrats use ‘quantity over quality’ as a detox plan

U biologists discover surprising answers for how the tiny rodent quickly evolved tolerance to a poisonous diet of creosote bushes.

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It’s who you are that matters most

A first-of-its-kind study found that evolutionary history has the strongest influence in both wild and captive woodrats’ microbiomes.

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