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Re:Many ‘strict herbivores’ will eat animal matter on occasion by vijayr on Sunday May 18, 2014 @08:51PM (#7765119)
Someone posted a video on Reddit of a baboon eating a baby deer, alive. It was like 2-3 mins, couldn't watch more than a few seconds. It was horrible. I remember thinking, why can't the stupid baboon kill the deer and then eat it, instead of eating it alive?

Animal kingdom is cruel

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Re:Many ‘strict herbivores’ will eat animal matter on occasion by ColonelPanic001 on Monday May 19, 2014 @10:01AM (#7767421)
I think "indifferent" is probably more accurate. The baboon didn't do it out of malice, the idea probably just didn't occur to it.

That actually strikes me as even more grim, in some ways. Nature isn't out to get you, nature just doesn't care at all. It just is.

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Re:Many ‘strict herbivores’ will eat animal matter on occasion by vijayr on Monday May 19, 2014 @08:02PM (#7770559)
May be, but many (most?) carnivores first kill their prey before eating them. There are exceptions of course, like the Python.

Either way, it is horrible to watch.

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Re:Many ‘strict herbivores’ will eat animal matter on occasion by mercer on Monday May 19, 2014 @04:44AM (#7766405)
I think that's this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcnH_TOqi3I

Not the most pleasant thing to watch over breakfast.

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