"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!"
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
Carnists: Buying meat killed by other people and packaged in plastic at the grocery store means I'm an alpha predator.
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.
Maybe you shouldn't have come to a vegan community then if you expected people to not criticize carnism.
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"..
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
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.
I'll take my fine motorskills over a gorilla's muscle any day tbh. Only barely though
Gorillas with tiny human hands would look funny as hell lmao
Well, by definition you have to eat other animals to be on top of the food chain.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Top of the food chain is, of course, the poisonous fungus that digests carcasses back into the soil.
I would have thought it was the sun, but I think I'm going to have to hand it to the fungus, yeah
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.
