does it suck to be a herbivore especially

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Anonymous09/10/26, 05:01No.5159567
Does it SUCK to be a herbivore especially mammalian herbivores? >you can't digest cellulose on your own, you need a specific microbiome >you need to spend hours fermenting and digesting plant matter >often times the plant matter isn't nutritious enough and you have opportunistically eat meat >if you're a hindgut fermenter, your young literally have to eat the shit of their mothers to gain the right gut microbiome >if you're a hindgut fermenter, the large size of your body/belly isn't fat but intestines (like manatees/dugong/many monkeys) >if you're a foregut fermenter, you have to spend most of your waking hours chewing cud then belching >you get more nutrients from plant matter compared to hindgut fermenters but you still have to constantly regurgitate then chew and repeat Boy am I glad that we're omnivores
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Anon09/10/26, 05:15No.5159568
They seem to get by just fine. In fact these are some of the chillest mammals with few worries.
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Anon09/10/26, 05:16No.5159569
Is it worse than being a detritivore?
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Anon09/10/26, 05:21No.5159571
Mammalian herbivores basically evolve to be food for other animals. They are living compost heaps. >Hello, I turn plant matter into food for you. >Please kill my friends so I can reproduce instead.
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Anon09/10/26, 16:59No.5159651
How is it for pseudoruminants?
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Anon09/10/26, 23:35No.5159748
For me, it's foregut fermenters.
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Anon09/11/26, 02:39No.5159797
Don’t forget the shit-eaters!
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Anon09/13/26, 04:45No.5160406
But bro, the floor is LITERALLY food. That's sweet as hell.
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Anon09/13/26, 07:14No.5160431
It sounds gross to us but these animals probably evolved to enjoy chewing their cud/eating their cecotrope, the same way we enjoy eating cooked foods that are perceived as gross by most other animals.
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Anon09/14/26, 04:31No.5160717
the worst part is how little of their lives are spent sleeping.
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Anon09/20/26, 07:00No.5162290
Goats seem pretty relaxed and content while chewing cud. I don't think it bothers them. It would really suck to get bloat tho.
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Anon09/22/26, 19:24No.5162940
Bump
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Anon09/22/26, 19:43No.5162941
no? food is easy to obtain and is everywhere. its piss and shit easy. carnivory is way more difficult.
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Anon09/27/26, 21:43No.5164049
Bump
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Anon09/28/26, 06:11No.5164125
>Bump But an ad you carnivver
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Anon10/01/26, 19:42No.5165146
>you need a specific microbiome Anon just about every animal with a gut requires a bacterial biome to help digest.
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Anon10/12/26, 05:40No.5167680
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Anon10/17/26, 11:51No.5169027
>>if you're a hindgut fermenter, your young literally have to eat the shit of their mothers to gain the right gut microbiome Webm related
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Anon10/17/26, 12:04No.5169030
eating low nutritious shit like grass and leaves and fermenting it in your own body so you can support a gigantic muscular body sounds pretty amazing
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Anon10/20/26, 16:33No.5169750
On the upside, plants don't run away. For most herbivores, it's free food. I don't think they even have the brain energy to spare thinking of how fucked over they were by nature. >Boy am I glad that we're omnivores Good if you're a hunter-gatherer chud or steppe nomad chad, but most of humans that lived before the green revolution had to farm: >Clear the land of any other plant, rocks and turn over soil >Just so you can plant a grass with overgrown seeds >Spend most of year tending it so they don't get eaten by animals and praying that the weather doesn't destroy them before harvest >Spends time and energy harvesting it lest it rots away in the field >Isn't even ready yet, got to remove the seeds from the stalks and then the edible part from the husk >Then turn the result into actual food If anyone is winning at life, it's the slime mold.