Human taste for peaceful rodent hutia shaped its evolution
Tuesday, January 28, 2020 - 18:10
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The Bahamian hutia, a large Caribbean rodent with a blissed-out disposition, presents a curious case study in how human food preferences can drive biodiversity, sometimes shaping it over 1,000 years. The hutia, which resembles a bristly beanbag, flourished in the Bahamas for millennia, the islands’ only native terrestrial mammal. Today, only one population of Geocapromys ingrahami remains, […]