"B-but the big strong carnivores are the top of the food chain." (hexbear.net)

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"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!"

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[-] Civility@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Yim yum

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

Carnists: Buying meat killed by other people and packaged in plastic at the grocery store means I'm an alpha predator.

[-] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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"..

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

bean

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

Are you really being comic book guy over a shitpost?

[-] Yurt_Owl@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

Skill issue

[-] hypercube@hexbear.net 19 points 11 months ago

new fitness trend: gorilla gut biome transplant to max out the gains

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago

Are you vegan?

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] TheTaglineToldMeTo@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

red licorice ron-sugar-man

[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

Don't gorillas have sharp canines too?

[-] Firipu@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

I'll take my fine motorskills over a gorilla's muscle any day tbh. Only barely though

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

Gorillas with tiny human hands would look funny as hell lmao

[-] HyonoKo@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Well, by definition you have to eat other animals to be on top of the food chain.

[-] booty@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

smuglord

[-] Yurt_Owl@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

🤓

[+] RoomAndBored@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[-] HyonoKo@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Saeculum@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] fox@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Top of the food chain is, of course, the poisonous fungus that digests carcasses back into the soil.

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

I would have thought it was the sun, but I think I'm going to have to hand it to the fungus, yeah

[-] HyonoKo@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

This one should be the accepted answer.

[-] HyonoKo@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I totally agree. I was obviously trolling a bit.

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

rat-salute

[-] forcequit@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

the idea of gorillas being bottom feeders is kinda funny ngl

[-] booty@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

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.

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