Re: Qilongia & omnivory

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

 

I have seen "carnivores", such as a bear and a mongoose (in Hawaii), eating bearies and fruit.

All those mustelids and bears, except the Polar Bear, are well-known omnivores. I'm particularly pleased to see that the same (unintended) pun with bears and berries (German: Bären & Beeren, pronounced the same) works in English. 8-)

I have also observed an adult giraffe, with its 18 inch tongue, clean out a nest and eat the chicks and eggs.

Intentionally?

...and it would not surprise me in the least if the feathered taxa from China were omnivores: berries, insects, lizards.

Well, it would surprise me, if only because there hardly were any angiosperms in the middle EK, and probably no berries at all. Means, I think, there were no plant parts that were easier to digest than leaves and could have been attractive to carnivores (with short guts etc.). Fallen ginkgo fruits might be a possibility, though.