What are you talking about? Plenty of smaller apes with no fat guts are also vegetarian and can fuck you up in a fight.
You can’t cherry pick traits from individual animals adaptations and apply them across the board to everything else.
Also isn’t it worse that a small dick gorilla can rip your limbs off with ease? Imagine if he had a big dick.
I only mentioned it because he brought it up. And no, other apes don't usually just eat leaves. Chimps and baboons both hunt and eat meat, eggs, insects, etc. Other big apes eat fruit.
Why do you think cows have such massive bellies? Large herbivores need room to make use of low energy food. Small animals that rely on the same food need to conserve energy, or find a different food source.
You said sloths are a case study into why vegetarianism is bad. And now you’re bringing up cows too. These animals eat low calorie grass and leaves. A vegetarian diet is not grass. You realize vegetables, fruits, legumes, grains, etc are apart of a vegetarian diet?
Because large herbivores can ferment grass or leaves in their guts to make something more nutritious than just fiber and chlorophyll. Small herbivores like koalas and sloths can't do that.
>A vegetarian diet is not grass.
True, which is why it's possible. But it's still not optimal.
>What nutrients cant you get with a vegan diet?
B vitamins and complete proteins. Also, plants and especially seeds and legumes have anti-nutrients that hamper absorption. Without extensive food prep, most of those would remain in place. Things like sourdough or tofu that ferment the food remove some but not all of these, but a lot of what we eat now is simply ground in a mill and turned into a baked food. You're lucky if you're getting half of what's listed on the nutrition label.
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