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3 am Scarab with some spicy fruit, which is some of my favorite things!
So, birds can't detect capsaicin, which is just basically what makes things spicy.
Plants developed this as a defense against mammals devouring them! Which is pretty neato if you ask me.
I grow jalapenos every year and I always catch birds at the very end of their season grabbing a to-go snack from them.
It's probably something they picked up much later during evolution, but I wanted to draw it anyway, especially for my alien raptor who already is not meant to be accurate to Earth's dromaeosaurs.
Idk how hardcore strict their carnivorous diet would be, but some things we commonly assume to be strict carnivores end up also sometimes eating other stuff. Like wolves will eat berries/apples/pears or deer/horses will literally snack on birds/squirrels to make up for something they might be lacking nutritionally?
Birds are so insanely diverse now though, so it depends a lot more depending on what kind of bird we're talking about. Some can seemingly eat anything and others cannot handle much of anything besides a very select couple of things.
Idk, Loaraptor nomnom angry fruit either way.
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Category Artwork (Digital) / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Dinosaur
Size 500 x 821px
File Size 592.2 kB
Very neat, I love hot peppers myself.
As for diet on animals, I always think it's interesting; 'obligate' carnivores pretty much HAVE to eat meat (like cats) and not really anything else (although they can, it's probably down to what they can actually chew and digest. I imagine sapient ones would probably still like seasoning herbs on their food and soft/well cooked veggies, and avoid the high fiber stuff). Wheras wolves aren't obligate carnivores, and they can't digest certain vegetable matter that well (or chew it), but again, easy to chew/digest food is handy. Which is also why they eat stomachs in the wild; they can digest the omnivores diet because the plant matter in the stomach is already semi-digested.
As for the 'herbivore' side of things, again, it's down to the ability to chew it, so small morsels would probably work, and meat is pretty much the most calorie dense and easy to digest food there is, so it's probably also 'if it's available, take advantage of it'. I think diet plays a heavy role in proper world building, because it matters for what kind of animals got domesticated and why; how arable land was treated (grazing animals vs crops, etc) and other production things (I imagine that carnivorous sapient species would probably use leather/clay for writing for a long time over paper because they wouldn't think to grow crops for a good while, and only after they've become more civilized would they go 'hey, why not grow these things for luxuries?'.
Then there's people who draw their canine fursonas eating things like grapes and chocolate chip cookies and it makes my inner biologist cringe and my inner worldbuilder weep.
As for diet on animals, I always think it's interesting; 'obligate' carnivores pretty much HAVE to eat meat (like cats) and not really anything else (although they can, it's probably down to what they can actually chew and digest. I imagine sapient ones would probably still like seasoning herbs on their food and soft/well cooked veggies, and avoid the high fiber stuff). Wheras wolves aren't obligate carnivores, and they can't digest certain vegetable matter that well (or chew it), but again, easy to chew/digest food is handy. Which is also why they eat stomachs in the wild; they can digest the omnivores diet because the plant matter in the stomach is already semi-digested.
As for the 'herbivore' side of things, again, it's down to the ability to chew it, so small morsels would probably work, and meat is pretty much the most calorie dense and easy to digest food there is, so it's probably also 'if it's available, take advantage of it'. I think diet plays a heavy role in proper world building, because it matters for what kind of animals got domesticated and why; how arable land was treated (grazing animals vs crops, etc) and other production things (I imagine that carnivorous sapient species would probably use leather/clay for writing for a long time over paper because they wouldn't think to grow crops for a good while, and only after they've become more civilized would they go 'hey, why not grow these things for luxuries?'.
Then there's people who draw their canine fursonas eating things like grapes and chocolate chip cookies and it makes my inner biologist cringe and my inner worldbuilder weep.
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