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• rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Herbivores can be carnivorous. I’ve seen plenty of videos of horses and cows cromching on baby chickens.

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  • dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And carnivores can be herbivorous. Dogs can be vegetarian no problem, and a while back humans solved the synthetic taurine problem. Turns out all animals are omnivores. Herbivores and carnivores are fake.

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    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      synthetic taurine problem for cats.

      For mercy’s sake, don’t start this again please.

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      • dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Drag is simply stating scientific fact. Drag doesn’t care what science deniers have to say to drag. It’s not drag’s fault if facts are controversial.

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    • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What about the humble amoeba

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  • Another_earthling@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think you don’t understand the definition then. When herbivores happen to eat some animals, like when cows eat baby chickens, it doesn’t make them carnivores just for doing so. They’re still herbivores

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    • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      eet meet

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• explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s how I see it. I’m a vegetarian omnivore, if my life depended on it I would eat meat.

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  • Another_earthling@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Anybody would do that?

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    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, I’m saying humans are omnivores and vegetarianism is just a choice.

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• Resonosity@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I like to think of the distinction in a de jure vs de facto way.

  If all the evidence we have of a species is them consuming autotrophs, then we do mental gymnastics and induce that they are 100% herbivores.

  Of course this also leaves room for an herbivore’s potential to consume heterotrophs, in which case our knowledge would have to update and reflect reality. Maybe 99% herbivore, 1% carnivore.

  And at that point, we may still do mental gymnastics and call species herbivores because that is their normal behavior, where their abnormal behavior is shown due to abiotic or biotic factors, perhaps from loss of habitat or removal/introduction of species in the food web, etc.

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