Does it SUCK to be a herbivore especially mammalian herbivores?>you can't digest cellulose on your own, you need a specific microbiome>you need to spend hours fermenting and digesting plant matter>often times the plant matter isn't nutritious enough and you have opportunistically eat meat>if you're a hindgut fermenter, your young literally have to eat the shit of their mothers to gain the right gut microbiome>if you're a hindgut fermenter, the large size of your body/belly isn't fat but intestines (like manatees/dugong/many monkeys)>if you're a foregut fermenter, you have to spend most of your waking hours chewing cud then belching >you get more nutrients from plant matter compared to hindgut fermenters but you still have to constantly regurgitate then chew and repeatBoy am I glad that we're omnivores
>>5159567They seem to get by just fine. In fact these are some of the chillest mammals with few worries.
Is it worse than being a detritivore?
>>5159567Mammalian herbivores basically evolve to be food for other animals. They are living compost heaps.>Hello, I turn plant matter into food for you.>Please kill my friends so I can reproduce instead.
>>5159569Land snails are detritivore and they are doing pretty well in survival department
>>5159567How is it for pseudoruminants?
For me, it's foregut fermenters.
>>5159567Don’t forget the shit-eaters!
