to what extent do animals actually enjoy their kills?to the vast majority of people, eating an animal the way they do in the wild is unthinkable. killing it with your teeth and eating it alive, sometimes whole, sometimes anus first. or perhaps the animal has been dead for days and they will feast on its bloated, parasitic corpse. it is so horrifying to us and so beyond disgusting that it would probably require someone to be in throes of deep psychosis to pull it off without projectile vomiting. the idea is so unappealing to me that I can’t help but feel like wild animals should also feel this way to some extent. I’m sorry if this sounds like an absolutely retarded question but do you think they really like it or it’s purely out of necessity and instinct
>>5126385>or perhaps the animal has been dead for days and they will feast on its bloated, parasitic corpsehominids ate maggot infested food for thousands of years while evolving. some still do...
>>5126385Pure instinctWe can do it, but as good as our immune systems are it doesn't change the fact that all kinds of animals are virus and parasite vectorsOr worse
>>5126385They enjoy eating food just the same as you do, the only difference is that most modern humans have much higher standards for what constitutes good food, entirely for cultural reasons.
>>5126398yeah, that’s what I was thinking. animals have no standards. now obviously they don’t have much of a choice and they don’t know everything we do about food. though some of them do seem to have an idea about there being things you should eat and things you shouldn’t.
>>5126402They're also unable to be aware that rotten food means potential parasite infection. All animals in the wild are full of parasites
>>5126385Go 3 days without eating then eat the saddest burger you can find without condiments or salt and you'll understand.
>>5126385I don't think there's any way to measure it or even accurately 'understand' it, but anyone who has seen a predator catch or kill prey can observe the predators seem to enjoy it. Cats certainly seem to enjoy playing with an killing rodents. Terriers dearly love chasing and killing rats and the like, I assume it's similar for other predators.
>>5126385Try sashimi bro. It's amazing. You know humans have some of the strongest stomach acid of any animal? We're better able to deal with horrific shit than most. As another anon said, our food perceptions are almost entirely cultural. We do have an instinct for food preparation that's likely driven by our sense of taste -- very few other mammals would willingly eat something super sour and doused in vinegar for example, but humans have been doing it for longer than recorded history and it's not been long enough for evolution to have meaningfully altered us to follow agriculture and long term storage technology (pickling).
>>5126517Parasites from meat aren't because of rot, they're already in the prey animal when it dies which then gets transferred to the new host when it eats the meat. We just keep our livestock clean from parasites so this isn't a problem for us unless you're someone who regularly hunts and eats raw wild game, in which case you're just as vulnerable to parasites as wild predators are.And most animals won't eat rotten food unless they're desperately hungry, that's why things like opossums pretending to be a rotting corpse works.
