Why is it that bears, birds and other animals can eat fish without getting the bone stuck in their throat, but when humans do it and the bone gets stuck, it becomes an emergency ?

Question

Why is it that bears, birds and other animals can eat fish without getting the bone stuck in their throat, but when humans do it and the bone gets stuck, it becomes an emergency ?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Bears actually [don’t usually bother to eat the whole salmon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0dabXAy7uA), normally eating the fat rich skin, eggs, and brain and discarding the rest since during spawning season it would take less effort to catch another salmon than trying to eat the flesh around the bones.

You wouldn’t eat apple cores if there were more apples on the tree.