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Re: Squirrels hunting and eating meat

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Post by lacy_tinpot »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #3
zmj wrote: post #2

Everything is an opportunistic carnivore. I once came across a turtle chowing down on a dead frog.

Apparently cows are happy to eat nestlings if they happen to find a bird's nest while they're grazing. If you're an animal, there's no food better than meat.

You should try raising cows on a carnivore diet.

Re: Squirrels hunting and eating meat

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Post by WorkerBee28474 »

manquer wrote: post #8
thaumasiotes wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apparently cows are happy to eat nestlings if they happen to find a bird's nest while they're grazing. If you're an animal, there's no food better than meat.

That would only be true if you have the stomach biome to digest and extract the nutrients. What is the point of eating something that is hard to process and digest and has no nutritional value for you For herbivores, meat is objectively bad food .

You're wrong. Cows will eat meat, horses will eat meat, pigs will eat meat, chickens will eat meat, deer will eat meat. If they can get it in their mouth, they will eat it.

Re: Squirrels hunting and eating meat

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Post by thaumasiotes »

lacy_tinpot wrote: post #11
thaumasiotes wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apparently cows are happy to eat nestlings if they happen to find a bird's nest while they're grazing. If you're an animal, there's no food better than meat.

You should try raising cows on a carnivore diet.

The cows would be happy, but that would be significantly more expensive than feeding them plants.

Note that mad cow disease came from feeding cows to cows. Giving them meat isn't exactly an innovation.

Re: Squirrels hunting and eating meat

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Post by thaumasiotes »

manquer wrote: post #8
thaumasiotes wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apparently cows are happy to eat nestlings if they happen to find a bird's nest while they're grazing. If you're an animal, there's no food better than meat.

That would only be true if you have the stomach biome to digest and extract the nutrients. What is the point of eating something that is hard to process and digest and has no nutritional value for you For herbivores, meat is objectively bad food .

The point of eating meat is that it's easy to digest. This isn't a case where two things are difficult in different ways and you want to do the thing you're specialized in. Meat is easy to digest, and plants are hard to digest, no matter what.

Re: Squirrels hunting and eating meat

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Post by Loughla »

At my parents house, the squirrels often kill and eat bluejays. I'm the winter they hide the wings in snow drifts. When the spring thaw comes there will be dozens of disembodied bird wings scattered around the yard.

I thought it was common knowledge that squirrels are opportunistic. They're rodents. They eat whatever they can get.

Re: Squirrels hunting and eating meat

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Post by PittleyDunkin »

manquer wrote: post #8
thaumasiotes wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apparently cows are happy to eat nestlings if they happen to find a bird's nest while they're grazing. If you're an animal, there's no food better than meat.

That would only be true if you have the stomach biome to digest and extract the nutrients. What is the point of eating something that is hard to process and digest and has no nutritional value for you For herbivores, meat is objectively bad food .

I don't know but I once watched a deer eat a bird so they clearly have some incentive
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