What did the lions eat?

[LostSheep]

What did the lions, tigers, and bears (oh my) eat on Noah's ark?

[Moksha]

Perhaps they ate all the fresh water fish floating on top of the water.

That at least is what the dinosaurs would have done, had they
not misunderstood that the ark was launching on Tuesday rather
than Wednesday.

[Jamie123]

The animals went in two by two
Hurrah hurrah
The elephant and the kangaroo
Hurrah hurrah

The animals went in two by two
The elephant and the kangaroo
And they all went into the Ark
For to get out of the rain

The animals went in three by three
Hurrah hurrah
The wasp, the ant and the bumble bee
Hurrah hurrah

The animals went in four by four
Hurrah hurrah
The great hippopotamus stuck in the door
Hurrah hurrah

The animals went in five by five
Hurrah hurrah
By eating each other they kept alive
Hurrah hurrah

The animals went in six by six
Hurrah hurrah
They turned out the monkey because of his tricks
Hurrah hurrah

The animals went in seven by seven
Hurrah hurrah
The little pig thought he was going to heaven
Hurrah hurrah

Poor old monkey - that's all I can say!

[Jamie123]

Originally Posted by Moksha

Perhaps they ate all the fresh water fish floating on top of the water.

That at least is what the dinosaurs would have done, had they
not misunderstood that the ark was launching on Tuesday rather
than Wednesday.

According to Kent Hovind, baby dinosaurs were carried on the Ark, but their descendents were later hunted to extinction by Man. (Except possibly a few like Ogopogo, Bunyip, the Loch Ness Monster etc.)

(By the way, Hovind is very much the "soft underbelly" of biblical literalism, so it's no great victory to find holes in his reasoning.)

[mnn727]

unicorns, cockatrices, behemoth's and jabberwockies.

[Dravin]

Tofu.

[Vort]

Originally Posted by LostSheep

What did the lions, tigers, and bears (oh my) eat on Noah's ark?

Three possible answers:

1. Genesis 7:2-3
   "Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth."
   
   Now, how you can take animals "by sevens" by taking "the male and his female", I've never quite understood. Nevertheless, you have an overabundance of "clean" (i.e. edible) animals. If you aren't concerned about genetic narrowing, that might give you some good eats, at least for a couple of days.
   
2. Isaiah 7:11
   "And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox."
   
   The predators put those sharp, pointed, flesh-ripping teeth to good use by going vegetarian.
   
3. Madagascar-ish broken Aesop fish-eating.

[TruthSeekerToo]

More possibilities:

*All the animals went into some kind of hybernation mode during the voyage. I saw this idea on a flood site that talked about how many tens of thousands of creatures would have been on the boat.

*The story is not meant to be understood at a literal level. The message is symbolic. This way I don't have to worry about what they ate or who had to shovel all that poop.



Vort, I think the "seven" number is had by 3 couples and a spare. The spares were all sacrificed when they got off the boat. That's the only thing that makes sense to me.

[mdfxdb]

If God can gather animals into an ark, and see to it that they don't go totally nuts, then surely he can see to it that they aren't hungry. They probably didn't eat otherwise the resulting mess (poop) would have been unimiginable for a small family such as Noah's to logistically take care of.

[john doe]

I think this thread belongs in the humor section.