Herbivores are pretty universally opportunistic carnivores. Check YouTube for examples if you want a jarring few minutes
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Horses just slurping up chicks is so fucked to see.
I think I got the search terms reversed
Ahhh so the horse was just getting revenge then
Idk what's that in the picture, but it's not a horse
Huh? That bird is obviously eating an Eohippus. (And yes, horses were once that small.)
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...though my personal recommendation is that you don't.
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Just wait till you hear what people eat
Whoever wrote that headline would shit a brick if they saw Balut
Not that surprising. Many herbivores are opportunistic carnivores.
Also most carnivores are oportunistic herbivores too. It's not shocking enough, but it's true.
Yeah, I also feel like that's not a surprise to anybody that's had dogs.
My cats sometimes think they're plastic-vores so I gotta keep the bags locked up.
yeah, have these people never seen any animals before?
The videos of the deer eating birds is always fun
have these people never seen themselves? eating chicken all day?
Usually mostly mammals though because since they're able to digest breast milk a little meat tends to agree with them better. But yeah at the end of the day free protein is probably worth an upset tummy out in the wild.
Need to snack on the crunchy chicks to get the evil modifier up. There’s a door with loot, after all.
It’s okay, because you can get even more loot by donating to a temple; and everyone forgets it.
New Kung Fu panda movie is crazy
Fun... Well not really fun... Fact:
Giant tortoise didn't get a scientific name for 300 years. They were so delicious no crew actually managed to get one back to England. They always ended up eating all the cargo.
Another not-so-fun fact: several tortoise species have gone extinct due to humans hunting them for food.
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Everyone eats baby birds. They're full of delicious little bones, which plants are famous for lacking.
Tortoise: "I'm not a goddamn rock! You pooped on me for the last time! ...Not so tough these days, eh, dinosaur?"
But seriously, not surprising. I heard that many tortoises, while herbivorous, will just happily munch all snails that rest on the greens. (For nutrition. And also to demonstrate superiour speed!)
NGL if a turtle eats you, that sounds like a skill issue on your part.
If you're surprised by this, you haven't been following giant tortoises.
Zoos secretly buy rejected 1-day-old male chicks from egg farms: it's the cheapest live meat for carnivores. I wonder if that's how the chick got near the tortoise.
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Pretty much the only prey they outspeed
humm tendies
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