Previous theories suggested the tendency for this rattlesnake to climb into low bushes was connected to a dietary shift toward consuming birds.
Prohesperocyon (38 mya-33.9 mya) displayed a shift in relative proportion between slicing and grinding functions indicative of a dietary shift away from vertebrate foods to one including fruits.
Before you head to your kitchen, please remember to consult with your health care provider about any planned dietary shifts, especially if you are being treated for diabetes or other health conditions.
They concluded that "dietary shift can be a more effective means of lowering an average household's food-related climate footprint than 'buying local'".
Unlike other species of sillaginid, the bay whiting doesn't have a large dietary shift as it moves to adulthood, causing parents to compete with offspring to an extent.
But the result, a team of British researchers say, was the same: an abrupt dietary shift.
The trumpeter whiting is a benthic carnivore, consuming a variety of crustaceans, polychaetes and molluscs, with a dietary shift occurring as the mature and move into deeper waters.
These dietary shifts have been mentioned previously several times but deserve greater scrutiny.
The species is known to undergo a dietary shift as it grows to adulthood.
The species also appears to have dietary shifts as it grows, however in all size classes fish are the dominant prey.