How can wild animals live without salt Please explain why

Updated on society 2024-08-07
16 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-15

    Who says wild animals don't eat salt?

    There is a lot of salt in nature, and there should be it in the soil and water.

    Inorganic salt is a kind of salt, it can be soluble in water, and can be ingested by plants and animals, and there are inorganic salts in the food of ancient people.

    Salt is a ubiquitous substance in the earth's crust, and because it is easily soluble in water, it is often carried by rainwater into rivers and then into the sea. According to statistics, about 100 million tons of salt flow into the ocean from land every year, and the global ocean contains more than 450 billion tons of salt.

    According to the natural conditions, salt can be divided into four types: sea salt, lake salt, well salt and mineral salt.

    The earliest method used by humans to extract salt was to scrape off salt crystals from dry riverbeds or lake beds with high salt content. But it didn't take long for more sophisticated methods of salt production to be invented.

    The first commonly used type of salt is sea salt. The acquisition of sea salt is mainly based on the development of salt pans by the sea with suitable climatic and geological conditions, relying on sunlight and natural evaporation, so that the salt can be analyzed. Sea salt is produced by the seaside in many parts of the world, such as China, South Korea, and India in Asia; Australia in Oceania; The Mediterranean coast of Europe is a major producer of sea salt.

    In the early days, the inhabitants of many parts of Africa extracted salt from saline soils with high salt content. They dug many salt wells about 2 meters deep in the salt field, and after the salty groundwater emerged, salt crystals were precipitated by evaporation, and the salt from the wells was mined in this way. The world's famous well salt producing areas also include Zigong in China and Weiricka in Poland.

    Lakes with high salt content exist in many parts of the world. The most distinctive place for collecting lake salt is Ritteba in Senegal, Africa. The local method of making salt is very simple, men, women and children from all the villages around the lake go out in small boats, put hundreds of plastic buckets in the lake, line them in a circle, and look down from the air like a colorful necklace.

    The lake water in the bucket is then dried under the scorching equatorial sun, leaving a layer of white salt at the bottom of the barrel.

    Extracting salt is much later than using salt pans to dry salt. Polish archaeologists have excavated some utensils for heating salt soil to produce crystalline salt. Natural salt deposits exist in many parts of the world, such as Iran, Iraq, the southwestern United States, Australia, and Bolivia.

    There are even salt dunes and salt mountains in some places, such as about 300 circular salt dunes on the Gulf Coast of the United States; There are salt mountains in Pakistan.

    Nowadays, in many countries and regions where it is difficult to produce enough salt by natural conditions, some new salt production methods have been developed, among which "electrodialysis" is the most popular. The so-called electrodialysis method uses the selective permeability of the anion and cation exchange membrane to increase the concentration of salt in seawater by about 7 times under direct current voltage, and then evaporates and crystallizes to produce high-quality refined salt. This method is currently widely used in Japan and Taiwan.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-14

    What happens if humans don't eat salt for a long time, and why don't animals eat salt? After reading the knowledge.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-13

    History: When the ancient people first began to consume salt has not been accurately explained by historical records or archaeological data. However, it is conceivable that, like the use of fire, the discovery and consumption of salt also went through an extremely long time.

    When the ancient ancestors were in the ignorant era of "eating herbs and trees, eating the flesh of birds and beasts, drinking their blood, and eating their hair", they did not know what salty taste was, nor did they know what salt was. In later generations, people did not add salt to the broth used for sacrifices, that is, the so-called "big soup does not cause" to show that they followed the ancient rites. Sima Qian also recorded this ancient ritual in the "Book of Historical Records":

    The gift of big food, still Xuanjiu and fishy fish, big soup discord, there are relics. These records in the classics can be regarded as evidence that the ancient ancestors did not know salt and did not know salt. Therefore, it can be inferred that the ancient ancestors did experience a long historical period when they did not know how to eat salt.

    The first to use and make salt was the Chinese, who called natural salt "brine" in ancient times, and called salt processed by humans "salt". The earliest discovery and utilization of natural salt in ancient China was in the flood era, which was the same as the licking and drinking of rock salt and salt water by animals, which was based on physiological instinct. The records of "White Deer Drinking Spring", "Ox Licking the Ground to Produce Salt", "Monkeys Licking the Ground", and "Sheep Licking the Soil" in ancient China all illustrate this point.

    In the 50s of the 20th century, there are artifacts unearthed in Fujian Province that have salt decoction utensils, which proves that the ancients learned to decoct sea salt in the Yangshao period (5000 BC and 3000 BC) at the latest.

    With the passage of time, people are no longer satisfied with the naturally occurring salt obtained only by relying on the gifts of nature, and have begun to explore the production of salt from seawater, salt lake water, salt rock, and salt soil.

    Purpose:1Salt seasoning can relieve greasy and freshness, remove the fishy smell, and keep the original taste of the raw materials; 2.

    Brine has the effect of sterilization, freshness and antiseptic; 3.It is used to wash the wound to prevent infection; 4.Sprinkled on food can keep it fresh for a short time, and it can be used to marinate food to prevent spoilage; 5.

    Salt and water can remove keratin and dirt on the surface, so that it presents a fresh and transparent sense of beauty, which can promote the metabolism of the whole body, prevent and treat some diseases, and play a better role in self-care.

    Therapeutic effect of salt, salty, cold, into the stomach, kidney, large intestine, small intestine meridian; It has the effects of nourishing the heart and moistening dryness, diarrhea and laxative, detoxifying and inducing vomiting, nourishing yin and cooling blood, reducing swelling and relieving pain, and relieving itching; It is mainly used for the treatment of food stoppage, abdominal distension and pain, phlegm in the chest, obstruction of stool, bleeding gums, sore throat, toothache, eye puff, sores, poisonous insect stings and other diseases.

    Animal salt is ingested from nature, and salt is widely distributed in seawater, salt lake water, salt rocks, and salt soils.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-12

    Animals don't eat salt, but people can't do without it? How did primitive man survive without salt?

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-11

    In ancient times, there was no ready-made salt, but they would eat salty things, and people could not live without salt, in order to maintain the body's electrolyte balance, and the electrolyte balance was for normal cell survival, so that they would have normal physiological functions.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-10

    No salt? Salt is obtained by drying seawater. There are official salt and private salt. In ancient times, Shanxi was famous for its salt. So there is a TV series about salt: Blue Blood Salt Owl.

    In the past, there was seawater rice.

  7. Anonymous users2024-02-09

    I'm dizzy, in ancient times, there was a profiteering industry called the salt merchant ......There is also a kind of official salt....Ancient human mineral salts may have sea salts....

    In the interior, there are salt brine lands....

    Because the salinity of the blood is related to the dialysis pressure of the blood vessels and cells, and sweat will take away a lot of salt, so it should be replenished.

    Animals seem to need less salt than humans and are basically supplemented by food.

  8. Anonymous users2024-02-08

    In ancient times, there was no salt like this, but at that time they absorbed iodine! At that time, there was no such pure tap water as it is now, and basically I drank salty water. Everyone knows that salt is raised from seawater, but the ancients lacked a procedure and drank seawater directly, and the effect was almost the same!

    Animals are not short of salt!

  9. Anonymous users2024-02-07

    Many people are wondering if dogs should eat salt too?

  10. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    Animals also need salt and other trace elements, of course, they do not eat these as spices, because of physiological needs, specific to a certain animal, such as monkeys catch lice with each other, they are not just to catch lice, they also evaporate the sweat on the body to form salt particles to pick up and eat, cats often add their own fur, in order to obtain vitamin D from the fur and so on. Therefore, animals also have to eat salt. Adopt it.

  11. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    Yes. The main component of salt is sodium chloride, and animals may need sodium chloride.

    Salts refer to a class of compounds in which metal ions or ammonium ions (NH4+) are combined with acid ions or non-metal ions. Such as sodium chloride, calcium nitrate, ferrous sulfate and ammonium acetate, etc., such as calcium sulfate, copper chloride, sodium acetate, generally speaking, salt is the product of metathesis reaction, salt and salt reaction to form new salt and new salt, salt and alkali reaction to form new salt and new alkali, salt and acid reaction to form new salt and new acid, such as sulfuric acid and sodium hydroxide to produce sodium sulfate and water, sodium chloride and silver nitrate reaction to form silver chloride and sodium nitrate, etc.

  12. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    Humans can't live without salt, so why don't other animals eat it? After reading the knowledge.

  13. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    Because the human body is indeed very special, it needs to supplement many vitamins and minerals to maintain normal functioning. Therefore, humans need to supplement sodium chloride, and although wild animals do not need to eat salt, they also need to ingest sodium chloride to maintain the normal functioning of the body. Salt is a very common condiment, and without salt our food would become very unpalatable.

    Although everyone advocates eating less salt now, we have to admit that foods high in oil and salt will make people more appetizing. <>

    Because eating too much salt can cause high blood pressure and can also lead to many physical diseases. But if you don't eat salt, your body will also have some diseases, so you still have to eat a little salt every day. Many people may find that in nature, only people add salt when eating, and animals cannot eat salt, especially wild animals, whose food is completely dependent on luck.

    So many people are very curious, why in nature only humans need to eat salt? <>

    People can't do without salt, mainly without the sodium chloride in salt. Sodium chloride contains sodium, which is also an indispensable trace element in the human body. That element not only boosts our body's metabolism, but also maintains blood balance.

    If you consume too little of the big elements, you will experience loss of appetite, headaches, nausea and other phenomena. So although we are advocating a life with less oil and less salt, we must also make sure to eat a little salt every day. Just because animals don't need to eat salt doesn't mean they don't need to consume sodium.

    Animals don't rely on salt to get sodium, but they can replenish their bodies with sodium in other ways. Many animals like to eat grass, and grass also contains sodium, so animals can also eat grass or other plants to supplement the sodium needed in the body. Moreover, most animals eat relatively coarsely, and there is no need to refine sodium into salt as a condiment like humans.

    The reason why wild animals don't need to eat salt is better understood, because wild animals drink sea water when they drink outside, and sea water contains salt, so they will replenish the sodium needed in their bodies by eating sea water or other animals.

  14. Anonymous users2024-02-02

    It is because some of the things that wild animals usually eat contain some colors, and the genes of their bodies are not the same as those of humans, so they can live well without salt, and the human body is very special, and it is not possible to eat salt at all.

  15. Anonymous users2024-02-01

    Most wild animals also need to eat salt, but they can ingest salt in other ways, such as on rocks, and the same is true for humans, not very special.

  16. Anonymous users2024-01-31

    This is because the structure of the human stomach is different from the external structure of wild animals, as is the sense of smell and taste. The human body is relatively special.

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