What's on the menu for Ryukyu's minute mammals?

ScienceDaily
Apr 8, 2025, 12:21 pm40 pts
Japan's Ryukyu Islands, which includes Okinawa, are the exclusive home to two rare mammals, the Amami rabbit and Ryukyu long-furred rat. These animals are hard to observe, but conservationists wish to find out specific details about their diets. So researchers inspected the teeth from deceased specimens to find…

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