How do animals know which plants are edible and which are poisonous?

Question

To the human eye, many edible plants have a poisonous plant look alike. We can distinguish the two after research and learning but how do animals just know the difference?

In: Biology

Answer 1

For your interest, we have 2 rabbits, one of my rabbits eat chili, lemon and also likes alcohol and then she would make weird noises. Of course we dont feed these food, that was only to test if she would eat it because the older doesn’t.

Conclusion :they don’t know what they can eat.