Do most mammals have the same nutritional needs as humans with regards to the ratio of each vitamin and mineral to each other (regardless of overall quantity).
For example, do any mammals have an extra requirement for vitamin A or for iron? Or do most mammals simply need every specific vitamin and mineral to fulfil x% of their nutritional intake, and it is the same for other mammals?
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In short, no, it varies. Most mammals can produce their own vitamin C, for example, so they don’t need to take it in with food. Humans (and other primates from the same group as humans, and also bats and guinea pigs) can’t make their own vitamin C, and therefore require to have it in their diet. In humans it’s due to a certain mutation that have broken our vitamin-C-making gene a long, long time ago.
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