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A creature that solved hunger by deciding everyone else was lunch.
means An animal whose diet consists chiefly of meat — a flesh-eater, biologically or just by enthusiastic preference.
from Straight from the Latin: 'caro, carnis' meaning flesh (the same root that gives us carnal, carnage, and carnival's last fling of meat before Lent), fused with 'vorare,' to devour greedily — the same gulping verb behind voracious and devour. So at its core the word simply names a thing that devours flesh.
- glucose hack
- Many obligate carnivores can't taste sweetness at all
- true title
- Most so-called carnivores actually eat some plants
- vitamin debt
- Cats must eat meat or go blind
- big eaters
- Lions sleep 20 hours to digest huge kills
- ocean champ
- Killer whales hunt sharks for their livers
lion — africa's apex predator that hunts zebras and wildebeest across the savanna
great white shark — ocean predator weighing up to 5,000 lbs that hunts seals off south africa's coast
grizzly bear — north american predator that catches salmon in alaska's rivers each summer
komodo dragon — indonesian reptile weighing 300+ lbs that hunts wild boar on komodo island