How come us humans have to eat 3 proper meals a day everyday? Animals don't. Animals eat one big meal, and it keeps them for a few days, even weeks. How come us humans can't do that?

 

Its the way we've evolved. Back in the day it was might is right. You took all you could have at one go and survived on it. Today you can always take some now and have some later.

If you take a kid and leave him in the wild he will behave like an animal because he will realize in order to survive he must eat as much as he can when he can.

~Me

 

Good call. I notice the same thing with domesticated animals (house pets). You could feed them 3x a day everyday.

Let's look at humans for a bit. If you had to eat a sh*tload of food to tide you buy for the next 3 days, how much would you really eat? I presume you'd have about 4 servings (average food sevings) and be really full after that. I'm sure that wouldn't hold you for 3 days, right?

 

hmmm good point... but maybe humans are more active than most animals?

 

You can survive without food for a week (probaly more). As long as you have water.

 

a healthy human can survive without food for over a month...provided he has water.

without water....no more that 3-4 days.

 

well you've all watched CBS's survivor. those guys were eating basically dick all. and yes they were starved but they all lived....

 

But wild animals don't starve, even if they don't eat for days. Somehow they are able to super duper conserve energy for a long time, much longer than us humans. If I get full after a REALLY big meal, I'll be hungry 6 hours later. Durr...

 

im guessing wild animals dont use their energy much unless they have to.


like how sharks dont hunt unless they are hungry and if their prey is fatty enough.

 

If wild animals had their choice, they'd be eating 3 squares a day.

Believe it or not, raccoons actually have the closest eating preferences and habits to humans, and they munch on berries and such all day long.

(Fun survival tip, if it is good for a raccoon, it is good for you.)