I drive by several fields of horses on my way to/from work, and i’ve always wondered… how to they they get that muscular with no protein? Sure owned horses might get a special feed that isn’t just grass, but wild horses don’t have access to that. As far as I’m aware, they just eat grass. Maybe the occasional fruit if they stumble upon one. Seems like an extremely low-nutrient, low-calorie, low-protein food for such a massive, muscular animal.
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Horses have digestive systems that break down grass in a way that extracts plenty of proteins from it.
We humans cannot do this in the same way so that’s why it seems like grass doesn’t have the needed goods. But horses (and other herbivores) have access to stuff we do not.
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