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Jeremy Yoder says no war

Vertebrate scavengers prefer to eat the corpses of distantly related species, possibly as adaptive pathogen avoidance? doi.org/10.1111/ele....

doi.orgPhylogeny Drives Carrion Consumption by Vertebrate Scavengers Towards Distantly Related SpeciesCarrion is a highly nutritious resource that plays a key role in ecosystem functioning, but may pose pathogen risks, particularly between phylogenetically close carcass-scavenger pairs. Using camera ....

5/10/26, 11:30 pm6 reposts35 likes

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Ah this is a pet hypothesis I quite enjoy from my Getz Lab days - I was never part of it but “why don’t carnivores eat carnivores” is always a very interesting and contentious question