This is something that always baffled me and seeing a video of a bear eating a salmon, it reminded me of this: The bear ate the salmon with it’s intestines, raw, no questions or care. Just bearing his own way through the salmon, barely a care in the world. And, like, I’ve seen videos of lions eating antelopes and zebra’s intestines also, and no issue there. Why? Would that work for all kinds of animals?
In: Biology
different predators have different “defenses” for diseases. many large cats have lots of bacteria in their mouth to kill many more times bacteria than humans do (which is why you should always, always clean out a bite from a house cat or dog)
freshness is an issue too; eating a raw animal that was killed 20 seconds ago has a lot lower risk than eating an animal that died 20 hours ago, decomposition begins rapidly.
wild predators are also likely to have different parasites themselves.
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