Real zombies: 5-eating animals brains

Medulla for them daily food, and food lakomstvoUpotreblenie brain is considered to be the prerogative solely of bloodthirsty zombies and other fictional monsters, but it turns out, these "gastronomic addiction" is not so rare in real life, at least in animals. And such an unusual taste is found not only in the large predators, but also harmless at first glance, things like tits or kangaroo. To your attention - five animals that can eat different food, but prefer to feast on brains.

1. Kangaroo Lyumholttsa



The main part of the diet of these fascinating marsupials of vegetation, but when they occur to diversify the "diet" food protein, catching birds and kangaroos, splitting their skulls, regale brain. Love to content kangaroo bird's head is so great that the rest of the bird carcass are usually discarded.

2. Most sinitsa



Beak tits - a great tool for opening the skull, but the bird uses it does not happen very often, preferring to eat insects and seeds. However, biologists are cases where big tits searched in caves and other secret places of bats, who fell into hibernation, and split their skulls, vyklёvyvaya medulla.

In contrast to the kangaroo, eating only the victim's brain, tits eaten and other organs of bats. Most often, they were killed on the spot mice and eat in the same place, but in some cases tits drag live prey to the nest, and already there is removed from her head, "delicacy».

3. Astsidii



Mysterious, beautiful and diverse animals belonging to subtype tunicates, live in all seas and oceans of the planet. Sea squirts are interesting because at a certain stage of the life cycle they eat their own brains. Ascidian larva has rudiment of the brain, but in adults there is only ganglion (cluster of nerve cells), so when the brain becomes unnecessary, the larva eats just his.

4. Swine tsepen



Pork tapeworm is probably one of the most heinous and terrible parasites that can live in the human body. Imagine that you have a worm crawling inside a length of about 3 meters, which is also able to penetrate into the head and cause significant damage to your gray and white matter - medicine known cases of eating parasite of the human brain.

5. Burunduki



Chipmunk Taenia solium - animal unpretentious and can eat almost everything: plants, fungi, insects, frogs and even other rodents. Watching the life chipmunks in the wild, naturalists noticed a curious fact: sometimes they catch mice, with only eat away the brain, leaving the other part of the carcass untouched.

via factroom.ru

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