how does animals help us rather than food?
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Many ways:\nThey find drugs and explosives\nthey lead/help blind people\nthey test new drugs so human don't have to.\nthey provide warm clothes.\nthey provide leather.\nSome are used to produce vaccines...\nAnd also they can provide companionship to the elderly or children
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They do have taste buds and have a definite preference of one type of food over another.  Also, animals have an excellent sense of smell and that is an important component of how food tastes and determining if one thing is better to eat than another.
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Well, we have mediocre everything except brain power. Usually animals will have great hearing, but poor sight. We have everything pretty balanced. \n\nWe have superior brain power than allow us to flourish. We don't need claws. There's already 6billion of us.
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Most animals that get ill hide it to keep predators from getting attacked. When animals do get sick they tend to die quickly.\n\nThe fact that they die from disease also means they cannot pass it on so easily, either genetically or by contact.\n\nThe other big issue in my mind is that we live such horribly unhealthy lifestyles today- bad diet, no exercise/active lifestyles, environmental pollutants (indoors is often worse than outside in a bad city!), avoiding germs artificially instead of building immunity, letting bad genes build up in our genotype, etc.
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www.plants.com\nwww.world.com\n\nHumans give them a place to live if they live in the desert and a camel is trying to eat it. If it is summer we give them most of their water source. We give them carbon dioxide. And we also give love to it so it can grow.
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Because we have opposable thumbs and use our hands to accomplish things.  Also, we, unlike other animals, have a desire to use our intelligent for our own well being.  Animals just act on instinct.
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Well, thats easy right? Animals keep it easy. Especially dogs. A dog will go fetch something cause it is fun. It will not turn to you, roll its eyes and say "Why?"
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Yes, there are actually quite a few insects and animals that don't drink water.  They get the water they need from the food and plants that they consume.  Very handy for desert animals.
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The sun\n\nThe sun provides the nutrients for plants, and animals eat those plants, giving the animals the nutrients.
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We ARE supposed to eat animals. we are part of the food chain that was created in this world. Vegetarians have their reasons NOT to eat animals, but other animals eat animals lower on their food chain... we are just part of that chain.
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(1)\n- Animals are heterotrophs, i.e. they need to feed of other living things\n- Plants are (most plants are) autotrophs, i.e. they can produce their own food from the sun\n\n(2)\n- plants convert carbon dioxide to oxygen (and sugar) during the day...\n- animals need oxygen, but can't produce it themselves\n\n(3)\n- plants decrease the level of carbon dioxide in the air (which would otherwise make breathing hard for animals).
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Since this is in biology, you could be talking about food energy.  Here's how that goes:\nEvery time an animal eats a plant, only 10% of the energy in the plant is passed on to another animal that eats that animal.  So, if you eat, say, a cow, you are only getting 10% of the energy that you would be getting by eating the plant in the first place.
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there r enough humans and enough blood for now.. so v r feeding animals once we get selfish enough to donate blood.
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right.. Reasoning superseeds thinking.  Reasoning is a higher cognative brain function.  Dogs and cats can think, but not quite reason.  If a dog is hungry and has access to food, they will eat it. It's not really a choice for them.  A hungry person can save the food for later and be totally comfortable not eating because they understand... through reasoning, they are not going to starve, they can eat in awhile and everything will be just fine.\n\nA hungry dog's thought process is pretty much stuck on.... food food i need food im hungry must eat food gemme food.\n\nknow what i mean?  jellybean
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Tough answer, I guess we get used to them being around and providing the emotional, physcial support, etc... they provide.  It's probably mother nature's way off keep us together and insuring the continuance of the species.
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They've got the starring role! Bacteria, fungi, protists, all of them pick away at whatever dead matter they find, and the important thing is that they often secrete digestive enzymes onto the stuff so it breaks down. This helps them have small food particles to ingest, and it cleans up the environment to boot.
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1) Bees pollinate flowers.\n\n2) Many different kinds of insects are food for other kinds of animals.\n\n3) Termites and other insects turn fallen trees and other dead vegetation into compost that fertilizes new trees and plants.\n\n4) Some people use bee venom to help joint and muscle pain.\n\n7) We get wax, honey, and silk from insects.\n\n6) Chocolate covered ants!