Darwin

Statue of Charles Darwin at the Natural History Museum in London. Philippe Lissac/Godong/Getty Images hide caption

Scientists who eat the plants and animals they study are following in the tradition of Charles Darwin. During the voyage of The Beagle, he ate puma ("remarkably like veal in taste"), iguanas, giant tortoises, armadillos. He even accidentally ate part of a bird called a lesser rhea, after spending months trying to catch it so that he could describe the species. Benjamin Arthur for NPR hide caption

Darwin, when he was on the lam at IKEA. ABC News hide caption