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New research analyzing the diets and microbiomes of 33 large-herbivore species in Kenya yields surprising findings about the interplay between animal evolution, behavior and the gut microbiome. An elephant forages on vegetation at the Mpala Research Centre in Kenya. Identifying the species of plants eaten by large wild herbivores such as elephants has historically been a major challenge for ecologists.
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Robert Pringle, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University and senior author on the study.
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