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[–] essellburns@beehaw.org 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The oldest.. Greenland Sharks.. diet of squid, seals and fish

The largest. Blue whales... Live on small crustations

The strongest.. snake, reptile and canid . Entirely carnivorous..

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[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Canids are opportunistic omnivores, not carnivores

Edit: Source. You may not like it, but it's true.

[–] essellburns@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Quite right. I have no problem with this 😁

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] essellburns@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Excuse me, what?

Edit: I think you just want to argue and be unpleasant. You even followed me into another community. Blocked.

[–] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

The oldest are plants

[–] Gladaed@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is misleading, Gorillas are technically omnivores. I think elefants are pretty strict vegans, though. When it comes to tortoise I am not quite sure.

[–] Socket462@feddit.it 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Water tortoises are omnivores for sure:

A friend of mine had a small garden pool with 2 or 3 tortoises and decided to buy some more fish to add the pool. The day after, half of the fish was gone leaving my friend puzzled. The second day the fish was gone and he understood why: tortoises, at least water ones, are omnivores.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

They are called water turtles, no? Or Is there are group of tortoises I forgot about.

[–] Amazinghorse@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

The fastest is a carnivore...

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Longest lived is a carnivore/scavenger, the Greenland shark.

Largest is the blue whale... a carnivore.

[–] tuto193@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Turtles are omnivores.

[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] LilDumpy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That is a tortoise, not a turtle.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yep! Some tortoises are omnivores, as are most turtles, but definitely not the one pictured here. That being said, if it’s truly being used as an example of the β€œoldest” animals being herbivores, the longest living creature we know of is the Greenland Shark, which has a generalist diet.

Gorillas are clearly omnivores and eat insects, snails, larvae, etc. Really should not have been used as an example here.

Elephants are herbivores, though like most herbivores they have been known to occasionally eat small animals. This is so rare it’s really not even worth mentioning though. Again though, blue whales are even larger and eat krill, not plants.

I’m all for being vegan but let’s actually be scientifically correct about it, otherwise nobody will listen to us.

[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

I mean, I can throw a compilation link of horses eating all sorts of small animals that cross their paths. Cool that you want to be a vegan yourself but I can't think of any animal that isn't opertunistic to free calories.

[–] LilDumpy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Cool. Good context. As soon as I saw the gorilla I was like, mmmmok. Should have put a horse or something. Horses are super strong.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Horses are pretty opportunistic too. You are supposed to be quite careful with chompables around them.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

AFAIK, the Greenland shark is mainly a carnivore/scavenger

There is no overall consensus on how the terms "turtle", "tortoise", or "terrapin" should be used. Whether a tortoise is a turtle or not is a colloquial issue not a scientific one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortoise#Terminology

[–] BuddyTheBeefalo@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Turtles are omnivores and can live up to 50 years, tortoises are herbivores and can live up to 200 years.