Light on the cheekbone. This small expandable pocket located on either side of a mammal's mouth has not yet revealed all of its secrets. Extensible, these anatomical peculiarities that are found in many rodents in particular, are used as well for the storage of food as for its transport.
As a result, some animals, such as hamsters, have bet big on their cheekbones and now have “models” that allow them to store 20% of their weight in their cheek. For a human weighing 80 kg, it is 16 kg of food that should be stored between the molars and the cheek when returning from the supermarket. Want to see what it looks like? So let go of your mouse and follow us in pursuit of rodents in this video from our partner Brut:
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