Almost every lion is carrying worms and eating grass is how lions, chimps, house cat deal with it

Added: 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]Almost every wild lion is [music] carrying worms right now.

[00:00:03]Researchers checked 112 lions in Tanzania. 97 of 100 carried parasites.

[00:00:08]Hookworm, tapeworm, three or four kinds at once.

[00:00:12]Grass is how they handle it.

[00:00:14]Plant fibers scrape the gut and push worms out.

[00:00:17]But cats aren't the strangest animal doing this.

[00:00:20]Chimpanzees swallow rough leaves whole.

[00:00:22]They come out with worms hooked on like Velcro.

[00:00:24]This behavior predates cats entirely.

[00:00:27]Your cat eating grass is deworming itself.

[00:00:30]Did you know that?

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