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Red Squirrels Fed By Humans Have Experienced Changes To The Shape Of Their Skulls And Lost Muscle Mass
In addition, jaw muscle attachment sites were closer ... demanding diet drove changes to the skull and jaw anatomy of red squirrels at Formby. When supplementary peanut feeding was put to a ...
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Red squirrels fed on peanuts have weaker jaws – here’s why that matters for conservation
What’s more, within the Formby population, we found changes in anatomy over a short period of time. Red squirrels from the 1990s had less efficient muscles than Formby squirrels from the 2010s.