How do the biggest and strongest vegetarian animals get their nutrition?????!
How do the biggest and strongest vegetarian animals—like the elephant, camel, horse, buffalo, hippo, and rhino get their nutrition from?????
Answers: A question for those who say that vegetarian food has a low nutritional value.
How do the biggest and strongest vegetarian animals—like the elephant, camel, horse, buffalo, hippo, and rhino get their nutrition from?????
Mostly fruit and leaves.
It has always been said that a chimp has the strength of ten humans. They can literally tear you apart. Ever seen them fighting or raiding another group on TV... they can literally tear arms and legs right off. I think that if I pulled as hard as I could I wouldn't be able to pull another humans arms and legs off. Well, perhaps there's a technique to it -- chimps are are pretty smart. I believe chimps are about 3ft tall or so and weigh up to 120 pounds.
they eat vast amounts of food. why do you think elephants walk so far? they eat all the food in an area, then have to move on.
True enough.. But I seriously doubt that you will eat 25 to 150 pounds of vegetable matter everyday.. and notice how all the animals you mentioned are prey to carnivores? so whose stronger? the strong animals that eat plants or the stronger animals that hunt them down?
They eat massive amounts of vegetation and their bodies and digestive tracts are designed in such a way as to get maximum benefits from what they eat . Their digestive tract is more efficient at extracting and absorbing nutrients from vegetation than ours is.
EDIT: Some of our teeth resemble that of a carnivore. Some that of a herbivore. Put them together and what do you get? Thats right, an omnivore which is precisely what human beings are.
And I dont know about you mate but I definately do not get thru as much grub as an elephant, camel horse or any of the animals you mentioned
It has to be from what they eat and your right it is not from meat. It is from the plants,grain...
They have adapted to eating things like that and the things you have adapted to and eaten can make you stronger especially if you eat a lot of it but there isn't always to much of a point of this because it depends on what you do and what you are adapted to. Just like people over time have adapted to eating meat and as long as we get our vitamins,nutrients and exercise we could be very strong and healthy as well.
by eating lots
First, they do eat a lot of food.
second, cattle and some other animals have special digestive systems. Cattle have 4 stomachs. Food is regurgitated chewed again, and passed to the nest stomach. That is where the expression "chewing your cud" comes from.
Horses have a very long digestive system. It is also prone to major problems. A lot of horses die from twisted intestines.
Personally, I prefer to be omnivorous. I like a nice thick medium rare steak,
This is so inane it's ridiculous.
First of all, Einstein...large mammals like the ones you mentioned have specialized teeth, digestive systems and metabolisms to subsist off of a vegetarian diet. They are true herbivores, hard wired by evolution/God (take your pick) to be as such.
Humans are true omnivores. We can eat and digest both plant and animal matter. Here is a cyber hanky...wipe your tears away and read a book on human history and evolution.
The biggest herbivorous animals are probably rhinos and elephants. They mainly eat grass but do not chew the cud. I may be wrong, but i think it's actually a reason for being big, because they need long digestive systems to cope with grass without ruminating. They seem to excrete a lot of cellulose.
The biggest primate, Gigantopithecus, may have been a grass eater.
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Adult elephants, hippos and rhinos don't have any natural predators. They are far too big for any animal to take them on. The young ones might become prey if they wander too far away.
I watched a YouTube video of SEVEN lionesses taking on a single female adult elephant who had strayed from the herd. She managed to fend off all of them, though with some difficulty.
I agree that a carnivore is stronger than a herbivore of equal weight but this is not because of its diet. It has evolved to be strong because of its diet. I.E. its strength has typecast its diet. If herbivores needed to be strong to eat plants, they too would be strong and mucular.
From variety of leaves, vegetables, fruits and other products of vegitations and trees.