Cheeta's favorite food? Kuduburgers, what else?
- From: Lee Olsen <paleocity@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:28:38 -0800 (PST)
http://tinyurl.com/2fsx7p
"But he's still allowed his favorite food of burgers and chips along
with monkey
chow and fruit. These days he prefers to stay at home watching old
films, especially
his own, on tv, but on special occasions can be seen at his own table
at McDonald's."
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~stanford/chimphunt.html
"At Gombe, we now know that chimpanzees may kill and eat more than 150
small and medium sized animals
such as monkeys, wild pigs and small antelopes each year."
http://www.ypte.org.uk/docs/factsheets/animal_facts/chimpanzee.html
"Chimpanzees also hunt and eat larger animals such as young
bushbucks, bushpigs, colobus monkeys and young baboons."
http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/2001/december/hominids.htm
"What does stable carbon isotope analysis tell us about hominid
diets?
Analysis of A. africanus tooth enamel from Makapansgat Limeworks
(about 3 million years old), and A. robustus and early Homo from
Swartkrans (about 1.5- 1.7 million years old) produced some surprising
results. If A. africanus was a fruit- and leaf- eater as suggested by
the microwear analysis, they should show corresponding C3 carbon
isotope signatures. But they do not! Instead, the results show that,
on average, 25% of their dietary carbon came from grasses. For one
individual at Makapansgat it was more like 50%. It was also surprising
that the same pattern held for all the hominids at Makapansgat and
Swartkrans, over a period of some 1 to 2 million years (see figure
above).... But they also ate quantities of actual grasses, or animals
that ate the grasses, or both."
http://www.beyondveg.com/nicholson-w/hb/hb-interview1h.shtml
"...but widespread global use [of seafoods] in the fossil record is
not seen until around 20,000 years ago and since.
Strictly speaking, meat from land animals is the primary flesh-food
adaptation for humans."
No spiritual delusions about early crayfish or algae, AAT is dead.
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