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?
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You are assuming that the bear doesn’t have lots parasites or get sick occasionally. For example here was a family in the news recently that ate a bunch of under cooked bear kabobs and ended up with worms in their brains.
My cat is a highly efficient huntress.
Normally she’ll devour her kill, and will leave a sack of rodent poop every single time. Sometimes a head also, but always always a poop sack.
It’s kind of sad how few people understand just how fucking horrendous life is for literally every wild animal. Like life in the wild is fucking hard and very very uncomfortable and deadly. Us humans have it insanely good.
Animals have immune defenses and stomach acid to take care of some stuff.
Let’s not forget that recent article of people getting worms from undercooked bear meat. Predators can and do get infected. That’s one reason we cook our food.
Also just watched a compilation of people getting seriously injured or sick in a forest survival type challenge. It’s amazing how much we take for granted, yet people want to eat raw meat and go back to how things were thousands of years ago because of some idealized picture in their heads.
Run around in the woods, and the smallest cut can become infected. Try to wash it and bacteria in the water can get in, then you’re out with a fever. If you’re alone, you could be in serious trouble over the smallest thing.
They often don’t. They carefully eat around them. I had a cat that caught rats almost daily. It would eat most of them and just leave the stomach and intestines on the kitchen floor for me to clean up. I only discovered it was eating rats as it got older and would only eat half of them.
I get the bear without a care, but no questions?
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