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1mo ago

Spirit Animal

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An important distinction to make is that they are facultative herbavors, not obligate herbavors.
They might prefere fruits and veg, but they'll eat whatever they can get their teeth on.
- Are there any actual obligate herbivores? I think most of them will eat small animals if they're low on calcium and such.
  
  When I think herbivore cows are pretty high in the list, but I've seen more than one video of a cow eating a chick along with her diet of grass
  
  There's a handful of bird species that can only eat stuff like nuts, berries, and seeds. Koalas. And I vaguely remember something about a couple kinds of sloths that only eat like, leaves, grass, and flowers?
- The herbivore/carnivore/omnivore distinction is pretty stupid to begin with
  There are a few animals that have a single food source. There are many that require certain things in their diet. There's basically nothing that exclusively eats meat (although there's many who need it) and there's few if any "herbivore" that won't take a little extra protein if they don't have to chase it

I've always wondered if Hippos hate us so much because they evolved alongside us.
- Nah, they're just stuck on hulk mode. They're hyper territorial, even to other hippos, even to babies of other males in their own group.
  
  Yeah but so am I
  
  Hippo Hulk is now canon.

They probably have sensitive skin.

What does this have to do with skin color?
- What does your comment have to do with the post?

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