Which are stronger pound for pound Herbivores or Carnivores?

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@parvez said, "Herbivores consume lot of carbohydrates from plants. These carbohydrates in one way promote insulin secretion. Insulin in turn helps in protein synthesis. Other nutrients like vitamins also play a major role in the protein synthesis. Where as in meat, the carbohydrate content is very minimal. Meat is the chief source of carnivores like cat. It does not contain minimal carbohydrate. It mainly contains protein, fats, minerals etc but not carbohydrates. So, protein synthesis in one way is inhibited. This seems to be the reason why big cats go for intestinal feed as soon as they hunt as all the carbohydrates in intestine must be present for absorption. Even then the carbohydrates in plants are much more in quantity than in animal's. Hence as per this point, herbivores must be stronger than carnivores."

I see a contradiction within the bold part, is that a typo?

There are also carbohydrates in fat, and compared to most vegetation that I come in experience with, I doubt that plants in general have more carbs than an equally-weighted fat portion of a let's say, gaur. Big cats can't finely separate muscle from fat, so at some point, they will consume a slight portion of fat by the end of their meal. Meat and fat do contain the nutrients and substances you mentioned, but I doubt that herbivores have more protein synthesis due to insulin: in fact, the carnivores should have similar levels of protein synthesis due to amino acid completion and large amount of meaty protein. Reply