Are there overweight, obese animals in the wild?

I don't mean heavy and fat animals like whales, seals or bears that build up fat reserves, I think it's intentional and adapted to their habitat or way of life.

My question is more specific: Are there fat lions, zebras, tigers, wolves, giraffes and other animals in the wild? Can they also suffer from obesity as a result of genetic factors?

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eisn89
11 years ago

Hello gluecks mushroom 😉

most animals must fight for their food and survival.

Unlike us, they do not live in abundance and can depress a double Cheeseburger at McDonalds 2 times a day if they are after. Although some clever animal species have learned to divide their food meaningfully (for example crows) most feed away what they can get.

If an animal has an abundance of readily available food sources due to favorable environmental conditions, it can naturally happen that it increases more and more fat tissue in an unhealthy manner. The difference to us humans is at this point that its chances of survival are significantly more limited. We don’t have natural fines. The rest of the animal kingdom is usually different. It threatens either fress enemies or competitors to exist weakened / affected animals. So if an animal gets too much to feed, it goes out that it can feed less and decreases again. For this reason, you will find this great amount of overweight almost exclusively in humans and in free(!) Nature predominantly “good-made” animals. Thick cats and dogs are only too often seen.

In addition, however, you also ask about the genetic factors. In the meantime, obesity in humans can also be genetically conditioned. Until now, I have no knowledge of a case where a genetic cause has occurred in other animals to extreme obesity, but I think it is possible that, especially in the case of “higher”/more complex animals, a form of metabolic disorder can occur which ensures that an above-average proportion of the absorbed fat can be stored and not utilized.

However, that we seem to rarely observe this case, I cannot imagine that this hereditary disease often occurs.

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captainmic
11 years ago

there are fat lions in it, because these viechers also stuff everything in themselves. in this state they can no longer hunt. Therefore, this form of a fat animal is only temporary. Otherwise it is not because they would starve. however, and especially with lions that hunt in the pack, one or other exemplar can really be fat and can be almost fed through by the others. should occur here and there in male lions.

real genetically conditioned obesity in the sense of a disease is by the way very rare in humans. I would appreciate that there may be a few hundred people around the world with this thing. storing superfluous food/calorien as fat is home to every acid, and also important for vitamin storage etc.

animals have the problem that they do not live in abundance and therefore, even in the case of genetic predisposition, simply do not find enough to get fat at all. And as mentioned above, a fat animal can no longer hunt optimally, and would have to sort itself out or become slimmer.

DisturbedWW
11 years ago

So I know genetic factors, but if you remove a wild boar in winter and compared to the summer blanket (Fell), you have a clearly thicker fat layer in winter… But, of course, there are also animals that are weighted, but some of them also have the so much food they use as emergency reserves. But if there’s always enough food, stay there

mimPutz
11 years ago

Significantly rarer than in people, but in dirty cities you can already encounter a too fat rat.
This is not such a free nature. If a wild animal is too fat, then this is usually due to metabolic disease and less misconduct, when a person becomes fat, metabolic disorders are added.

Winterspeck is not too fat, but a necessary possibility of survival.

It is just that: if there is more food, then these animals multiply faster, so that there is no longer much food.
The increase also costs energy and then the increased fight against competitors.

Nature works so that first the number of individuals is increased, only after that the fat stock is created if at all, because too long does not stop oversupply.

In culture, this is different: people even get fewer children from a certain wealth, if this is not promoted by the state, e.g. with children’s allowances.

In summary, it can be noted that obesity due to inscription occurs very rarely in animals other than humans.

Runshak
11 years ago

the most animals have a very good hunger feeling… recognizable at many (not all) cats…the cat of my friend eats really only as much as she has hunger…even if you eat her more, then eat her only as much as she actually needs…but if you now have a cat sterilizing or nen kater cattriers will also be

kami1a, UserMod Light
11 years ago

They only exist where they can eat at Mc Donalds. But where is that? Nature is tough – unfortunately we are no longer aware. In winter we increase an average of 3-4 kilos. Many animals need a winter sleep because they wouldn’t find food. For example, some bears halve their weight. Fatification is all human.

I wish you a nice weekend!

Lipziger
11 years ago

They die before they could become fat. Who is fat cannot hunt, not flee, etc.

So if there’s a food surplus, that’ll happen. But life is greatly reduced;).

Most animals have enough to do, to keep a proper weight and not weigh too little. Normally, they don’t exaggerate it if it were possible.

captainmic
11 years ago
Reply to  Lipziger

Ah.

and what about socially living animals?

2010SVH
11 years ago

No. You have to get the food yourself.

gnu92
11 years ago

If they get so thick due to illness, otherwise not. The adipoesian animals then also die correspondingly faster because they no longer escape other animals for which they are prey.

nowka4
11 years ago

because they are getting kicked, there are not

Kosmokatze
11 years ago

I think so. All the animals eating fat before they go to winter sleep 🙂

mimPutz
11 years ago
Reply to  Kosmokatze

It’s not overweight, emergency stock!

botanicus
11 years ago

No. In natural surroundings, animals only eat as much as is good for them.

ostrettich
11 years ago

No.

YasmoYa
11 years ago

and whether it’s a picture… I got a viedeo too!