how exactly did we get associations between species and specific foods? like why does the public perception of monkeys like bananas? why does the public perception of mice like cheese? elephants and peanuts?

I strongly doubt any of those are actually foods that those species particularly like more than others, and I know you'll get rodents a lot more interested with peanut butter than with cheese

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also cats and milk, which I know from experience cats will drink water over milk and drinking milk tends to lead to cat vomit showing up on the carpet later

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