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One thing I rarely see noted in these discussions is that no other animal treats or processes their food like humans, even without fire or fermentation. We eff
by retrac 3y ago
One thing I rarely see noted in these discussions is that no other animal treats or processes their food like humans, even without fire or fermentation. We effectively pre-chew our meals with our hands, breaking everything into a nice bite-sized pieces, with mashing or grinding of what would otherwise be too hard to eat. We will sort through thousands of tiny berries carefully, to make sure we don't eat something unpleasant. We will go hungry even when edible food is around, because we know it will be even more ripe later.
- Melatonic 3y agoWe also eat a huge variety of food (probably more than any other animal) so it makes sense that we need to be more picky.
- NewJazz 3y ago.... Pretty sure there are plenty of animals that store food for winter, or mash and grind nuts, or sort through berries.
- yieldcrv 3y agoplenty of species delay gratification, and with food, in the ways you described and other ways do you need examples of that? do you have a GPT4 subscription?
- DarkNova6 3y agoThere are ant colonies that grow their own fungi.
- NewJazz 3y agoI knew about aphid farming, did not know some ants grow fungi! https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/did-you-know/farmer-ants-and-their-aphid-herds https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/did-you-know/farmer-ants-a... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus-growing_ants https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus-growing_ants
- someuser2345 3y ago> We effectively pre-chew our meals with our hands, breaking everything into a nice bite-sized pieces, with mashing or grinding of what would otherwise be too hard to eat Crows use cars to break open nuts they would otherwise not be able to eat; eagles drop turtles to break their shell. > We will sort through thousands of tiny berries carefully, to make sure we don't eat something unpleasant When orkas kill sharks, they only eat the liver of the shark and leave the rest alone. Wild civets also choose only the best coffee berries, which is part of why we make coffee from their poop. > We will go hungry even when edible food is around, because we know it will be even more ripe later. I don't think we go hungry, we just look for better food elsewhere until that edible food is fully ripened.