As simians like monkeys, fruits are an important component of hominids diet.
Most are opportunistic foragers.
Meat intakes vary with species:
- Gorillas are the less carnivorous: sometimes ants and termites out of self-indulgence.
- Skilled tree climber orangutans add bird eggs.
- Chimps hunt small animals like monkeys
- 4 million years ago australopithecines used to feed on carrions
- humans have been hunting for 2 million years and farming for 10,000 years. Neanderthals used to be the most carnivorous of all primates.
Control of fire (400,000 or 800,000 years ago) allowed cooking of root crops indigestible when raw.
They are omnivorous.
they eat worms
