Fasting for Lent Forces Hyenas to Change Diet

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120405075232.htm

ScienceDaily (Apr. 5, 2012) — Many Christians give up certain foods for Lent, however ecologists have discovered these changes in human diet have a dramatic impact on the diet of wild animals. In Ethiopia, members of the Orthodox Tewahedo Church stop eating meat and dairy products during a 55-day fast before Easter. As a result, spotted hyenas too change their eating habits -- from scavenging waste from butchers and households to hunting -- new research in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Animal Ecology has found.

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