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squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 days agoThe same holds true for a lot of animals. There aren’t many purely “vegan” animals. A horse will snack a mouse too if it gets the opportunity.
Comment on *confused flatfish noises*
squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 days agoThe same holds true for a lot of animals. There aren’t many purely “vegan” animals. A horse will snack a mouse too if it gets the opportunity.
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Plus evolutionary history shows plenty of examples of animals switching from pure carnivore to pure herbivore to omnivores in between. All birds are descended from a common carnivorous ancestor, but plenty of birds today subsist mostly on seeds or fruit.
If there is a lot of available biomass to be eaten, nature will find a way and some animal is going to fill that niche. Many of the folivores (herbivores specializing in digesting leaves) that descended from carnivores have to deal with the low nutrient/calorie density of their foods by just eating a lot of it, and have varying levels of microbial symbiosis for helping with that digestion.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nature has proven over and over again that it doesn’t like neat categories :)
Evolution happens and it follows whatever works, and it certainly doesn’t care about any clever categories and rules we humans come up with.