Vanishing Ice

[Minimalist]

The cricket probably has a more flexible mind.

[Digit]

Thank you Min!

Roy.

[MichelleH]

Ah...you would have enjoyed Arch.


Or maybe not.

And I would have gotten a massive migraine not to mention a multitude of e-mails threatening of suits for liable and slander......like he could do that anyway....moron....

[Minimalist]

Well...yeah. There was that, too!

[Rokcet Scientist]

HSN had larger digestive tracts, or more fat, than us, which would suggest a large amount of vegetable food.

It does indeed. Look at gorilla guts! They're HUGE barrel guts! Because gorillas are strict vegetarians (they're really bipedal cows...). Unlike chimps, who are omnivores of course, including meat and insects, and consequently have hardly any gut.

[Digit]

Which raises an interesting point about when Homo started to cook his food.
I don't know if the programme was shown elsewhere but we had a TV programme recently showing attempts to live entirely on uncooked fruit and veg.
It wasn't possible.

Roy.

[Minimalist]

Man is the only mammal to cook his food though so other mammals must manage it. No?

[Digit]

Quite Min, but their digestive tract is designed for it, ours isn't. We void such food before we have obtained any great benefit from it, uncooked, we use more energy to digest it than we gain from it.
Once cooked the energy input was 2 and half times less than with the uncooked for digestion, somewhere along the line of development Homo lost the ability to live like a herbivore.

Roy.