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"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!"

  • Civility [none/use name]
    hexbear
    44
    9 months ago

    Gorillas stick to a mainly vegetarian diet, feeding on stems, bamboo shoots and fruits. Western lowland gorillas, however, also have an appetite for termites and ants, and break open termite nests to eat the larvae.

    Gorillas are soy dsa karens who eat the bugs and live in the pod

  • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
    hexbear
    32
    9 months ago

    Carnists: Buying meat killed by other people and packaged in plastic at the grocery store means I'm an alpha predator.

      • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
        hexbear
        24
        9 months ago

        The hell is a carnist?

        A meat eater.

        Are we supposed following this logic to create every tool we use or even cultivate every plant we eat?

        No, but you're supposed to not consider yourself a manly man badass for buying meat at the grocery store. Or even better, stop eating meat.

  • @Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    cake
    hexbear
    16
    edit-2
    9 months ago

    Gorillas guts are VASTLY different to a humans guts...

    Not really comparable in that department.

    Their gut biome produces protein

    try eating exactly what gorillas eat.. incl their own feces.. see if you get the same "gains"..

    • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
      hexagon
      hexbear
      36
      edit-2
      9 months ago

      Lmao what are you talking about? Humans are omnivores, our guts can digest plants last time I checked.

      Their gut biome produces protein

      I get my protein from them beans

      bean

    • Awoo [she/her]
      hexbear
      32
      9 months ago

      Are you really being comic book guy over a shitpost?

    • hypercube [she/her]
      hexbear
      19
      9 months ago

      new fitness trend: gorilla gut biome transplant to max out the gains

    • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
      hexbear
      5
      9 months ago

      Protein is pretty easy to get without meat. Lipids are a different story, but based on how quickly you jump to protein I suppose your research never went too deep.

  • @HyonoKo@lemmy.ml
    hexbear
    2
    9 months ago

    Well, by definition you have to eat other animals to be on top of the food chain.

      • @HyonoKo@lemmy.ml
        hexbear
        2
        9 months ago

        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.

        • WittyProfileName2 [she/her]
          hexbear
          17
          9 months ago

          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.

          • Saeculum [he/him, comrade/them]
            hexbear
            4
            9 months ago

            The only natural predator of the gorilla is the leopard

            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.

        • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
          hexagon
          hexbear
          16
          edit-2
          9 months ago

          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.

        • forcequit [she/her]
          hexbear
          16
          9 months ago

          the idea of gorillas being bottom feeders is kinda funny ngl

        • booty [he/him]
          hexbear
          13
          9 months ago

          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.