How Do enormous animals like giraffes/elephants/ect meet basic nutrition needs when they dont have a varied diet?
In: Biology
Volume.
Cows plow through 25ish pounds of feed a day, and Elephants consume *hundreds* of pounds a day. The infamous “white elephant” refers to a legend where the King of Siam gifted these elephants to nobles he hated, knowing the care would bankrupt them.
The food they eat is mostly nutritional trash, so they’ve evolved enormous digestive systems to process huge volumes and extract what little nutrients exist in grass and stems.
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