Ouch, Herbivores More Carnivorous Than we Thought!

In a recent trending video, a hoarse showed its intelligence opening several doors and a food locker all to come across a tasty treat which looked to me like a hot dog. A quick search on the Internet revealed that yes, they can and do eat meat sometimes. Proteins they can't digest pass right through them while others help supplement their more typical vegetarian diet.

In my backyard, I once had the displeasure of witnessing a normally skittish groundhog catching a bird by its wing. With grazing animals like groundhogs, such odd behavior seems extreme but the truth is that few animals are 100% specialized for either meat or non-meat diets. Even swans which spend most of their day feeding on water plants will occasionally dine on crustaceans and insects. It's a little disturbing but it's nature and apparently, nothing is quite as innocent as it seems.