How are animals that eat only one kind of food not horribly malnourished? Do they need a narrower set of nutrients than humans?

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How are animals that eat only one kind of food not horribly malnourished? Do they need a narrower set of nutrients than humans?

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Humans are actually kind of rare among mammals in how few nutrients we can self synthesize . Vitamin C is the one I’m most aware of.