Illustration showing factors influencing scavenging behavior in humansCarmen Cañizares
Illustration showing factors influencing scavenging behavior in humansCarmen Cañizares
I am very doubtful. My dogs love carrion even though they get fresh meat in their diet. Getting within 10 yards of it from upwind turns my stomach. We have evolved differently.
Of course they did. They had to invent the automobile and the highway before they could switch to eating fresh roadkill.
The discovery of fire would make that workable.
Every day I see more dead deer on the sides of the roads around here, and same situation in many states, especially this time of year. If you hit a deer and kill it, I don’t see any reason why not to butcher it, cook it and eat it. If it’s not been dead for too long, there’s nothing wrong with it, unless it’s been severely mangled by a 70 mph 18 wheeler. Better in colder weather though, it spoils fast in warmer weather.
Were more forest fires started on purpose to take the rotting decaying meal less needed?
Now that airlines have stopped serving meals, a lot of use are relying on it.
Eating carrion is probably less risky than exposing to flu infected person in same room. The acid is stomach is strong enough to cause burn on fingers. Eating a poisonous snake is much less harmful than snake bite.
Another "good grief" moment. Everyone needs to ask themselves if they would do it. Of course they did!
That's what our appendix was for. When we started salting and cooking meat, we no longer needed it.
Hmmm...So do the Sasquatch eat carrion, like dead deer and wolves, or are they hunters?
Road kill ain’t bad.
Only in instances of 32F or less.
But that’s where we have been hanging out, on those fringes, since we have inhabited the zone between the Steppes and Scotland. So a fresh but old mammoth = freezer meat.
Mommy, what’s for dinner?
The UN must be looking into this.
Lewis & Clark documented in great detail the various nations encountered on the Upper Missouri. When hard times hit starvation was real. The Expedition ate their moccasins at one point. Not quite as bad as it sounds, these were brand new, unissued moccasins they had built up a stock of several hundred pairs because they didn’t last long.
When the word went out that a couple hunters had successfully bagged a couple deer a couple miles away, some of the Indians started running at a full gallop, by the time Lewis arrived at the scene it was like nothing he had ever seen or imagined! They ate everything. As in everything but the hooves. Raw. In particular he described two guys fighting over the entrails or intestines. They were consuming the contents of the intestines, etc. It was apparently not a genteel affair, they had turned it into a contest as they worked each end towards the middle.
Fur trapper accounts noted that in the spring thousands of dead Buffalo would be found drowned in the Missouri in the spring, and some Indians preferred the Buffalo that had putrified, liquified and turned green.
How hungry have you actually been?
