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nature's opportunist, too greedy to specialize and too clever to starve
means An animal (or person) that eats both plants and animals, thriving on a mixed diet rather than specializing in one food source.
from From Latin: omnis, "all," bolted onto vorare, "to devour" — literally an "all-devourer." That vorare is the same hungry root that gives us carnivore, herbivore, and the bottomless voracious; it's a cousin of words tied to swallowing and gulping. English took up the term in the natural-history vein, roughly in the 19th century, as scientists sorted creatures by what they ate.
- survival edge
- flexible diets thrive when one food source collapses
- the menu
- humans, pigs, bears, crows all eat anything
- gut clue
- intermediate teeth and intestines reveal a dual diet
- word roots
- latin for devourer of everything
- bear truth
- pandas are technically carnivores eating bamboo all day
humans — eat both plants and meat across all cultures worldwide
bears — consume salmon, berries, and other vegetation depending on season
pigs — eat grains, vegetables, insects, and small animals in farms and wild
rats — consume seeds, fruits, grains, and meat in urban and rural environments