ANIMALS AND THEIR FOOD.
+ An ordinary man eats his own weight in food in about six weeks. Monkeys of the higher order consume their own weight in something like thirty days. Animals obtain less value from the food they eat than man, and therefore consume more. In the lower types the digestive organs become less and loss efficient, and' the quantity of fond they require to support their bodies becomes more and more out of proportion to thefr weight. The lion consumes from eight to eleven pounds of meat a day, taking about right weeks to eat its own weight in food. The digestive organs of birds are much better developed than those of the majority of animals.
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 20 September 1911, Page 7
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118ANIMALS AND THEIR FOOD. Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 20 September 1911, Page 7
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