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Why Vegan Instead of Just Vegetarian??
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> >> >> The PBS science show Nova had this week a show on chimps. Not only did
> >> >> they eat meat with great relish they did so at every opportunity.
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> >> >> They had invented a kind of spear to kill animals to eat. They hunt
> >> >> with group cooperation and share the meat among themselves.
> >> >
> >> > Where?
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> >> In their entire range.
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> >'Relating Chimpanzee Diets to Potential Australopithecine Diets
> >Conklin-Brittain, Nancy Lou
> >Wrangham, Richard W.
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> >We report data using an ape model to reconstruct the nutrient
> >composition of the frugivorous diet of our last common ancestor
> >with African great apes. We aimed to determine whether the
> >African ape clade, from which hominids evolved, has any unusual
> >features. We studied frugivory by comparing chimpanzee diets to
> >that of three species of cercopithecine monkeys in Kibale Forest,
> >Uganda.
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> >Data came from a 12-month period that showed inter-monthly
> >variation in fruit abundance. The monkeys consumed stable
> >nutrient levels except for lipid, which was low (3.2 +/- 2.0 %
> >dry matter (DM)), but peaked at about 9% DM during ripe fruit
> >abundance. Chimpanzees also consumed low lipid and sugar diets
> >during fruit poor seasons. Protein intake reflected each species'
> >fallback food: leaf consumption kept the protein levels high for
> >monkeys (16.7 +/- 1.9% DM); chimpanzees relied on herbaceous
> >piths and maintained a low protein intake (9.5 +/- 3.0% DM).
> >Fallback food was probably also responsible for the high fiber
> >(NDF) intakes by monkeys, which was not significantly different
> >from chimpanzees' (32.4 +/- 3.6% NDF versus 33.6 +/- 4.5%
> >NDF respectively).
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> >Three conclusions emerge: fat intake was low for all frugivores,
> >protein intake was low for chimpanzees, and fiber intake was high
> >for all species. Our data (from a lipid-poor habitat) show that
> >high lipid or high protein is not needed for normal health and
> >reproduction of chimpanzees. Therefore, hominids were probably
> >capable of living on a low-fat, low-protein diet such as would be
> >provided by fibrous roots commonly found in a seasonal woodland
> >environment.
> >
> >http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/icaes...onklin/abstrac
> >t.html
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> In science the answers one gets is a function of the questions one asks.
> Tabove does not answer the question do chimps eat meat with grea relish,
> share it among themselves, produce tools to hunt animals, and hunt
> cooperatively.
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> The above was asking about proportions of macro nutrients and seasonal
> feeding habits.
And hunting wasn't mentioned. Neither was eating insects.
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