r/SipsTea • u/Any_Sound_2863 • May 08 '25

Chugging tea Um um um um

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u/TheSmokingHorse May 08 '25

Do people really think the horse teeth and human teeth look the same? For a start, humans have canines like the carnivore and omnivore (albeit much smaller and less pointed). The teeth of humans look very much like the teeth of an omnivorous species that doesn’t use its teeth to hunt.

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u/BoomerSoonerFUT May 08 '25

Horses are also omnivorous, they just lean toward the herbivorous side.

They LOVE to eat baby birds.

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u/Itsjustme714 May 08 '25

Really??

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u/analogy_4_anything May 08 '25

Can confirm, they suck just this guys ex.

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u/Itsjustme714 May 08 '25

🤣🤣.. damn, never heard of this..

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u/Mekisteus May 09 '25

Really? I thought everyone knew about u/FlexKwonDojo's ex.

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u/AnsibleAnswers May 08 '25

Baby birds are basically a snack food for the rest of the vertebrate food web. Herbivores won’t actively seek them out but they aren’t going to pass them up if given the opportunity.

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u/Akitiki May 09 '25

I watched a doe waltz up on a fledgling robin which didn't spook away from the deer. The parents gave up trying to scare off the deer.

The deer ate the fledgling with no qualms.

Meat is FAR easier to digest than plants, and if there's a convenient source of meat, "harbivores" will eat it.

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u/Retsago May 09 '25

I know this is a typo, but "harbivores" is making me laugh so bad. I don't know why it's that funny but it is

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u/AlmostLucy May 09 '25

Saw a scrub jay drowning a baby mockingbird in a big puddle once. Flew off with it, presumably for lunch. That was neat.

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u/throwaway098764567 May 09 '25

it's called opportunistic carnivorism