Runningart2004 wrote:
Some animals also just "don't taste good" and so other animals have learned not to eat them unless it's really necessary. I mean you don't see wild tigers going around munching on mice do you? Sloths spend most of their time in trees and so not many predators can get up there to get them.
Alan
I can't believe it. How is it possible that everything you write is completely idiotic?
Tigers don't eat mice because it would be a waste of time and energy for them to go around hunting mice, not because they "don't taste good". Why would a tiger hunt mice when it could more easily locate a zebra and get hundreds of times the nutritional value from a zebra than a mouse?
If a sloth had nutritional value, and it were easy kill, then some animal would acquire a taste for the sloth. Taste is not some random thing assigned to different animals, and those that taste bad are let off the hook by evolution. There has to be some other reason it doesn't get eaten more.
You have to think about why animals have tastes. Why does fatty food taste so good? Because it provides a lot of energy. Why does dirt taste bad to us? Because you don't get much energy from eating dirt. Tastes have the purpose of guiding what we eat so that we don't waste energy eating a bunch of stuff that doesn't do us any good.
Thanks a lot for another wonderful post, Alan.
