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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Canids are opportunistic omnivores, not carnivores
Edit: Source. You may not like it, but it's true.
Quite right. I have no problem with this π
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Excuse me, what?
Edit: I think you just want to argue and be unpleasant. You even followed me into another community. Blocked.
The oldest are plants
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.
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.
They are called water turtles, no? Or Is there are group of tortoises I forgot about.
The fastest is a carnivore...
Longest lived is a carnivore/scavenger, the Greenland shark.
Largest is the blue whale... a carnivore.
Turtles are omnivores.
https://www.webmd.com/pets/what-do-pet-turtles-eat
Pretty much the same for the other two.
That is a tortoise, not a turtle.
Yep! Some tortoises are omnivores, as are most turtles, but definitely not the one pictured here. That being said, if itβs truly being used as an example of the βoldestβ 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 itβs really not even worth mentioning though. Again though, blue whales are even larger and eat krill, not plants.
Iβm all for being vegan but letβs actually be scientifically correct about it, otherwise nobody will listen to us.
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.
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.
Horses are pretty opportunistic too. You are supposed to be quite careful with chompables around them.
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.
Turtles are omnivores and can live up to 50 years, tortoises are herbivores and can live up to 200 years.
Free calories are free in the animal world.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/24/world/giant-tortoise-eats-chick-intl-scli-scn/index.html