The Himalayan kochilla is a relatively large
(15kg) generalist predator, a primate distantly related to the smaller
omnivorous lemurs of Madagascar. Kochillas have, however, become
fully carnivorous, though they often also steal eggs from the nests of
birds and dinosaurs. It seems that its climbing abilities have given the
kochilla an advantage over the bipedal theropods in the mountains of the
Himalaya, and thus it has become one of the world's largest fully terrestial
mammalian predators.
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