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I Plan to adding health issues, where do they live, unhealthy diet, different types, type of teeth carnivores have

Hello I am Andy Vrabel a college student, I plan on adding whats in the top part. Andyvrabel (talk) 20:47, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Carnivores on non-meat diets in domestic/captivity

My addition below has been removed before, so let's discuss why this should be included or not. What carnivores eat in practice is described very well in the page in general. What is otherwise missing is if carnivores have to eat meat. This is easy to misinterpret from this page, and the notable counter examples help avoiding that misinterpretation, by showing that being a member of a carnivorous species does not always require that individual to eat animal tissue.

The section in question:

In captivity or domestic settings, obligate carnivores like cats and crocodiles can in principle get all their required nutrients from processed food made from plant and synthetic sources.^[1]^[2]

As to the coment that the sources are not scientific, the Guardian article references the primary research directly.

^ Devlin, Hannah; correspondent, Hannah Devlin Science (2023-09-13). "Cats may get health benefits from vegan diet, study suggests". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
^ "Crocodiles in Zimbabwe fed vegetarian diet to make better handbags". The Telegraph. 2014-04-08. Retrieved 2024-04-06.

Sklabb (talk) 15:58, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Devlin, Hannah; correspondent, Hannah Devlin Science (2023-09-13). "Cats may get health benefits from vegan diet, study suggests". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-04-06.

[2] "Crocodiles in Zimbabwe fed vegetarian diet to make better handbags". The Telegraph. 2014-04-08. Retrieved 2024-04-06.

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