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"It's easy to see why cavefish would be at a disadvantage if they were to maintain expensive tissues they aren't using."

"Even in their sparse cave conditions, wild cavefish can sometimes get very fat, says Riddle."

"'But when these cells get too big, they can burst, which is why we often see chronic inflammation in humans and other animals that have stored a lot of fat in their tissues.'"

"Since relatively little lives or grows in their caves, the fish are likely surviving on a meager diet of mostly bat feces and organic waste that washes in during the rainy season."