Animals in the wild tend to eat a balanced diet because they
A) have an innate preference for all foods that contain critical toxins.
B) have an innate preference for the taste of all critical vitamins and minerals.
C) learn to prefer the tastes of all of the vitamins and minerals that are good for them.
D) recognize the tastes of all of the vitamins and minerals that were in their mother's milk.
E) none of the above
Question 2
Animals learn to
A) prefer the tastes of key vitamins and minerals in their food.
B) prefer tastes that have been followed by an infusion of calories.
C) avoid tastes that have been followed by gastrointestinal illness.
D) all of the above
E) both B and C
An overview of the four phases of food use in animals: ingestion, digestion, absorption, and elimina
Carnivores such as these wild dogs have skeletal adaptations for eating meat.
The DASH diet, rich in whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and low-fat dairy foods
Diet Spoon and Fork
Wild Australian Duckbilled Platypus