(April 2, 2014 at 8:32 am)enrico Wrote: I NEED YOUR HELP
HELP PLEASE.
I have been looking at a study in which it is said that omnivores digestive system is very similar to carnivores.
Now i try to understand what this means.
If you guys say that man is omnivore then we are very similar to lions
and tigers, right?
I know that you guys are all very intelligent so you can help me to understand this difficult issue.
Our digestive system is very similar to a carnivores, as I said before our digestive is around 5 times our body length. Compare this with a dog, its digestive system is around 6 times its body length. For a Cat this is around 4 times. For a rabbit it is around 10 times.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.10...160502/pdf
The difference between humans (and an omnivore more generally) versus a dog is we have a more developed caecum. But what is the function of the caecum? It's to break down vegetable matter. Yet in herbivores the caecum is so well developed that they can digest cellulose. We cannot. We therefore not herbivores.