Ok so here's to my first post in awhile...yes.
I was walking to the LRT station to go to work today and saw a stray cat drinking out of a puddle of water formed over a drain cover that everyone steps in on the way to/from the station and I started thinking.
Now for the most of us its pretty common to get food poisoning if we eat old food, or food that hasn't been hygenically prepared and such. Yet you don't see stray cats/dogs/rats vomiting profusely when they eat out of the trash.
Now obviously I don't plan to start eating garbage and drinking out of the drain, but why is it that these animals seem far stronger than we do? Or is it just a matter or perception, that maybe they have very short lifespans because they live like that and we just don't notice their deaths.
So I was hoping Warlock, being our resident bio-nerd, could better inform me. Why do animals seems to have stronger digestive tracts? Can we replicate that in ourselves by consuming certain items? (not garbage and such of course). At first I was thinking about good bacteria (lactobacilus?) but it can't nearly be that simple. This of course extends to things like tooth decay as well if you want to delve into that (e.g. we need to brush, floss etc. or our teeth will rot and fall out, yet other animals don't seem to have this problem aside from having teeth torn out in combat. Of course not sharks and animals that continuously regrow new teeth).
So remember, explain why this is the case, and what we can do to replicate this in a human being without vile experimentation using the T-Virus. |
