List of extant extant species used in the present study.

Diet following Redford (1985): Specialist insectivores (social insects, mainly ants and termites), Generalist insectivores (beetles, beetle larvae, spiders, ants, termites), Omnivores/ Carnivores (characterized by a diet including plant material-e.g. tubers, roots, palm, nuts-, animal matter and a variety of invertebrates-beetles, ants, termites, worms- and vertebrates-mice, carrion, birds, eggs-). Abbreviations preceding the names of institutions are used to identify the location of specimens. AMNH, American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA; FMNH, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, USA; MNCN, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain; MNHN, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturalle, Paris, France; ZMB, Zoologisches Museum, Berlin, Germany; MLP, Museo de la Plata, La Plata, Argentina.List of extant extant species used in the present study.