• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    22 hours ago

    I was gonna object that it’s a vegan diet, because they’re presumably not gonna do eggs or milk, but apparently not strictly vegetarian either:

    Mountain gorillas spend about a quarter of their day eating, mainly plants. Around 85% of their diet is made up of leaves, shoots and stems, but gorillas can also eat larvae, snails, ants, and even roots, barks and rotting wood (a good source of sodium/salt).

    https://www.wwf.org.uk/learn/fascinating-facts/gorillas

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      16 hours ago

      There is basically nothing that isn’t a. opportunistic carnivore. Eating meat is just way more efficient (in terms of nutrition and calorie density) than eating plants.

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        16 hours ago

        I was raised vegetarian and still am but i learned how to hunt and clean game just in case