Placenta Eaters

Discussion in 'Biology & Genetics' started by Orleander, Jul 19, 2007.

  1. Captain Kremmen All aboard, me Hearties! Valued Senior Member

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    What's wrong with yer? Are you a vegetarian?
     
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  3. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    No, no vegetarian. Not much of a meat eater though. Are you telling me the prospect of eating that doesnt make you feel sick to your stomach ?

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  5. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    you've obviously never seen tripe, liver, testicles or brain in the raw.

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    yummy!
     
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  7. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    I have, its... not for me

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    btw. apologies for that huge pic..
     
  8. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    I'm a carnivore to the core.:shrug:

    no harm done, I'd already had my coffee.
     
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  10. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    *Drops to his knees and starts begging for forgiveness*

    :bawl:
     
  11. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    Do whales eat the placenta????
    Or does it just slowly float down.
    Who wants to get hit with a falling placenta?
     
  12. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    I found this, but i dont know how reliable it is:

    "Humans are one of the few species of mammals who don't eat their placentas after birth. Seals, walrusses, whales and camels also do not. Even herbivorous mammals do this. There are studies that show that eating part or all of the placenta after birth slows down or stops post partum bleeding and significantly reduces post natal depression. In addition it contains a great deal of nurtrition that would otherwise be lost to the mother."
    http://thegreenman.net.au/mt/archives/001043.html
     
  13. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    thank you enmos!
    Its what I was wondering all along. (I'm gonna assume dolphins/porpises don't either)
     
  14. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    I have heard of incidents of rubbing the baby or the mothers breasts with placenta in some communities in India; I am unaware of the reasoning behind it though.
     
  15. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    No, i guess they dont either.
     
  16. lucifers angel same shit, differant day!! Registered Senior Member

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    it revitilises the skin after birth! many women who have children, they're skin goes dry and flaky and it is said that if you rub them with the placenta the skin will becomme its usual consistency
     
  17. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    Hmm im wondering if that would work with just blood.
     
  18. lucifers angel same shit, differant day!! Registered Senior Member

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    i dont know i have never tried it and seeing that i cant just walk into my corner shop and say "can i have a LB of fresh plcenta please" or "can i have a pint of your freshes blood please" i dont think i'll find out
     
  19. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    Elizabeth Bathory certainly thought it did.

    http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/bathory/9.html
     
  20. Captain Kremmen All aboard, me Hearties! Valued Senior Member

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    I bet they do eat it.
    I wonder if they sing while they are eating it.

    And wouldn't it float rather than sink?
     
  21. madanthonywayne Morning in America Registered Senior Member

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    This thread title sounds like an insult.
    "You no good, dirty, placenta eater!"​
    or
    "He had a placenta-eating grin on his face".​
     
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  22. Captain Kremmen All aboard, me Hearties! Valued Senior Member

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    They left out duck billed platypuses.
    The point that herbivorous animals do it shows that it is not eaten as a food but for some other purpose.
    Why should camels be an exception?
     
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  23. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    Well yes, but i assumed we were talking about placentals. Otherwise whats the point ? Marsupials are as much mammals as monotremes and they dont eat their placentas either, they just resorb them.

    Class Mammalia
    ...Subclass Prototheria (Monotremes)
    ...Subclass Theria (Live-bearing mammals)
    ......Infraclass Metatheria (Marsupials)
    ......Infraclass Eutheria (Placentals)

    Yep.

    Camels, like marsupials, resorb the placenta. I dont know why that is though.

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    More detailed, in the Class Mammalia the exceptions to placentophagy are:
    the suborder Caniformia (Walrusses, Sea lions, Eared seals, Fur seals and True seals) in the order Carnivora,
    the order Cetacea (Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises),
    the genus Camelus (Camels) in the order Artiodactyla,
    the order Monotremata (Monotremes) and
    the infraclass Marsupialia (Marsupials).
     

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