When it comes to eating, you might be surprised to learn that you have something in common with the ocellate river stingray.
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You may have heard that the ability to chew food separates mammals from other animals. But new footage reveals that stingrays-at least the ocellate river stingray-chew their food too. Watch how one stingray chomps down on dragonfly larvae.
Read more about the latest study on stingrays, dethroning mammals as world’s only true masticators.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/amazon-stingray-chew-food-predator-prey/
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