RE: Why defecation?
August 16, 2020 at 8:43 pm
(This post was last modified: August 16, 2020 at 9:41 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
I think our differences revolve around the way things are framed. To me, it is very clear that food is there to meet the metabolic needs of the animal. The animal takes what it needs from what it eats and gets rid of the rest. In other words, the animal sets the criteria that food must meet.
From your perspective, the reverse seems to take precedent. The animal is there for the complete consumption of food. And food sets the threshold for what the animal needs.
From my perspective, there isn't a digestive issue, perhaps only an ingestive issue. If you want a wombat to not excrete cellulose fiber, then don't feed it celulous fiber.
From your perspective, if you don't want a wombat to excrete fiber, you want the wombat to now have a random metabolic need for fiber. You want to complicate the wombat for the sole purpose of not letting fiber pass through. And I don't see the point in that.
From your perspective, the reverse seems to take precedent. The animal is there for the complete consumption of food. And food sets the threshold for what the animal needs.
From my perspective, there isn't a digestive issue, perhaps only an ingestive issue. If you want a wombat to not excrete cellulose fiber, then don't feed it celulous fiber.
From your perspective, if you don't want a wombat to excrete fiber, you want the wombat to now have a random metabolic need for fiber. You want to complicate the wombat for the sole purpose of not letting fiber pass through. And I don't see the point in that.
