In the wild, adult night monkeys eat leaves, insects and small lizards and frogs.

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Contestants strip the stalks and eat the leaves non-stop for an hour.

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Nigel Raine, another ecologist from Royal Holloway, University of London, also studies these ant plants, and says that giraffes will go ahead and eat the leaves of the plants, although ants will then swarm onto their face and mouth and try to bite them.

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But very frequent travellers may not have that option - the constant transition from place to place leaves little time to take a walk, prepare and eat a healthy meal at home or stick with a training regimen at the gym.

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And even though they have some good prospects coming, just the entire tenor, it leaves a bad taste in your mouth, as anyone who has tried to eat an aggressive game fish can tell you.

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