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Almost all apes will eat meat, actually. It's not a primary part of their diet, but it's regular enough that it's been observed pervasively. And they digest it just fine.

It's true that we're weird because we cook it, but the weirdness isn't that it fundamentally changed our diet[1], but because it changed our gut. Our intestines shrunk a lot when we became cooking scavengers, to the point where we actually can't productively eat the diets that our ape ancestors did anymore, including their raw meat consumption.

[1] Though it did change our diet: we went from mostly-plant gatherers to mostly-meat scavengers, which required (or maybe the causality went the other way) that we leave the forest for grasslands where dead animals were larger and easier to find.



> Almost all apes will eat meat, actually

Are you sure on that? 50% of great apes eat meat. Of the lesser apes, gibbons will eat a tiny proportion.

> Non-human apes usually eat a small amount of raw animal foods such as insects or eggs

Arguable insects are meat, but if you invited someone round to eat some meat, I don't think they would expect insects so think that can be ruled out.

So some, but certainly not "almost all". And the ones that do, it is a tiny % of their diet, relative to most humans


Insects are meat, yes. Are prawns/crab/lobster "meat"? Ocean arthropods are much closer to insects than they are to vertebrates. Obviously the question was about digestive suitability, not culinary aesthetics. And apes eat bugs, and can digest them just fine.


I don't know about apes but definitely deer will eat meat from time to time.




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