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For a tiny little birdie, shrikes are pretty hardcore. Not only they are mostly carnivorous, they often hunt animals that are almost their size, and impale them on spiky branches and barbed wires.
If we're talking chemistry, well, their carnivorous diet has a lot of protein, and protein is made of amino acids. Plants, just like birds, need amino acids too, and they make them themselves, using various chemical pathways - and one of the pathways is, you guessed it, based on shikimic acid.

Description
For a tiny little birdie, shrikes are pretty hardcore. Not only they are mostly carnivorous, they often hunt animals that are almost their size, and impale them on spiky branches and barbed wires.
If we're talking chemistry, well, their carnivorous diet has a lot of protein, and protein is made of amino acids. Plants, just like birds, need amino acids too, and they make them themselves, using various chemical pathways - and one of the pathways is, you guessed it, based on shikimic acid.