"What do you mean Hippos are the most dangerous animal in Africa?! My creationist first grade teacher told me that herbivores are all weak little prey animals that exist to be eaten by big strong predators!"
"What do you mean Hippos are the most dangerous animal in Africa?! My creationist first grade teacher told me that herbivores are all weak little prey animals that exist to be eaten by big strong predators!"
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still manages to gargle Sure, not saying a gorilla isn’t strong. Just pointing out that the “chain” term in “food chain” refers to a concatenation of animals eating other animals.
The only natural predator of the gorilla is the leopard (some leopards have been seen preying on unguarded juvenile gorillas), so I guess technically whether or not gorillas are on the top of the food chain depends on their age.
Sadly, humans presently and historically hunted gorillas for food as well, along with habiy destruction and hunting for sport it's part of the reason they are so endangered, and has been one of the issues faced by conservationists.
Lol, yeah sorry, I guess I worded it too ambiguously. I was more mocking the idea of a food chain as a whole, with predators 'on the top', and the tendency to boil animal relationships down to "Strong eats weak".
It simplifies nature far too much and can lead to some pretty dumb social Darwinist thinking. Plus the food chain doesn't even talk about animals that are neither predator nor prey.
Top of the food chain is, of course, the poisonous fungus that digests carcasses back into the soil.
I would have thought it was the sun, but I think I'm going to have to hand it to the fungus, yeah
This one should be the accepted answer.
I totally agree. I was obviously trolling a bit.
the idea of gorillas being bottom feeders is kinda funny ngl
so what does the "food chain" have to do with anything? basically nobody fucks with gorillas at any point on the food chain. that's the point.