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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?????

2007-11-11 22:50:59 · 13 answers · asked by ADS 5 in Food & Drink Vegetarian & Vegan

Mr, Big kid----Our digestive system and our teeth do not match with meat eating animals rather we are more like cows, horses and other vegetarian animals and its is a scientifically proven fact. As for amount of food, you ask any research-oriented doctor, our requirement of food is not large?

Mr. Exsft--- technically speaking, the animal you are referring to are not stronger in real sense, it’s just that they are meat-eating animals and they have the skill to kill. Simply killing is not a measure of strength. Even you can easily kill a lion, does that mean that you are stronger then a lion?

Now for those who are concerned with increase in animal population, please understand that we do animal farming and use different methods to increase the production of animals. More over, how many of you eat dogs, cats, or snakes for that matter? Their population is under control naturally

2007-11-12 01:27:37 · update #1

Mr. Exsft---I never said that you could kill a lion with your bare hands. Moreover I have used the words “more like” and not “exactly” when comparing the teeth and digestive systems. You have responded in haste without going through the full paragraph

2007-11-13 01:07:05 · update #2

13 answers

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.

2007-11-12 17:36:30 · answer #1 · answered by Scocasso ! 6 · 4 0

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.

2007-11-12 02:29:00 · answer #2 · answered by grayure 7 · 3 0

Exsft
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.

2007-11-12 05:54:05 · answer #3 · answered by bovinotarian 2 · 5 1

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.

2007-11-12 01:06:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

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,

2007-11-12 01:24:27 · answer #5 · answered by Jay L 7 · 4 2

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.

2007-11-12 01:53:57 · answer #6 · answered by goldenchilde11 2 · 4 3

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

2007-11-11 23:21:27 · answer #7 · answered by Big kid 5 · 4 5

you should argue that utilising any animal product is exploitative of animals by utilising distinctive function of the undeniable fact that it is not element of the organic existence cycle of that animal in the wild. yet there's a international of distinction between advertisement farming - battery hens and cows saved interior and their calves taken at sooner or later old - and organic and organic approaches. There are strict regulations farmers ought to save to to income organic and organic certification as regards animal welfare - inventory densities, feed, offering as organic as available living ecosystem, and so on, and calves ought to proceed to be with their mothers for lots longer than in widespread dairy farming (i think of it rather is quite a few weeks as detrimental to a million or 2 days). And organic and organic farming DOES enable using antibiotics whilst animals are ill (in Europe a minimum of) - it only prohibits the habitual administration of drugs to the comprehensive herd. there is often the subject of extra calves in dairy farming, no count number how ethically run, and in case you drink milk you should settle for that somebody down the line is going to consume pork or veal, whether you do not your self. even nonetheless veal would not inevitably ought to intend the undesirable crated form. organic and organic standards (a minimum of in Europe) do enable veal farming - only a youthful animal as whilst it comes to eating lamb. i think that in case you will consume dairy, organic and organic is the acceptable genuine thank you to do it - the least exploitative, and in all probability greater acceptable in terms of flavor and foodstuff. there is likewise a controversy that by utilising helping organic and organic dairy farming, you're encouraging greater dairy farmers to bypass organic and organic in the long-term.

2016-09-29 01:56:09 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

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.

2007-11-11 22:57:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

From variety of leaves, vegetables, fruits and other products of vegitations and trees.

2007-11-13 02:14:10 · answer #10 · answered by mano_ t 2 · 1 0

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