Fat in Animals

Summary: Don’t be grossed out, people. This is actually pretty interesting. The main point of this artice is how much fat you store depends on your “species, sex and status” says http://www.sciencedaily.com. We can assume that the reason they store fat at all is to avoid starvation. However, if an animal is lucky enough to gain weight, it stores the fat and calories so it can go long without having to eat. A bad consequence of this, however, is that it slows the animal down. This makes it easier for the predator to get you and eat you, giving the predator more or less the fat the prey had just gained. These things apply to all animals or humans, but the type, gender and place on the food chain of an animal is where things vary. For example: an Orca whale. Orcas are usually never down on food and don’t have any natural predators other than, you know, humans. Predators at the top of the food chain live a similar lifestyle to humans, it seems.

Impact: Well, I am smart enough to know that no matter how fat you get, if you stop eating, you will get fatter on purpose. Your body is actually responding like the way an animal would to being hungry. You go into “Caveman Mode” as I like to call it. This means that all anything else you eat is going to be stored away so you can live as long as possible on a limited food supply.

Critique: This was cool to learn about. I mean, I already knew about how fat was bad for you but how you need a little bit of everything to survive. I had suspicions that fat mattered more to animals than humans because rats and bats and things can’t just go to the kitchen and grab a pack of chips.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120120183806.htm