Andrew wrote:
they manufacture
>SFAs from starches to provide structural support so they can walk around.
>this is why the fat you see on the edge of a rump steak is a) fat and not
>oil and b) visible and solid.

Andrew, you're wrong. The reason the fat on the edge of a steak (or under
the skin of wild animals) appears solid is not because it is saturated
enough to BE solid, but because each globule of fat is encased within
something called a "fat cell". Now, given your apparent depth of
understanding of physiology, I'm sure you understand that "fat cells" have
things called "cell walls", which would (and does!) prevent sloshing of
liquid fat (oil). Even in those animals who do have enough saturated fat
that it is indeed solid at room temperature, it is still liquid at body
temperature within the fat cell, otherwise cell processes would be very
difficult to carry out.
If you are not among those in the world with such tiny deposits of fat on
their bodies that they are unnoticeable, I'm sure you can jiggle a bit and
perhaps notice that your jiggling fat is not and does not feel solid. If it
were, it would not jiggle. Have you ever seen an overweight person or animal
run, jump, or do any activity that requires relatively quick movement? Then
you may have noticed that they jiggle, or as some put it, "slosh".
On to your second point:
>i have no idea about small game. being small, they
>wont affect the overall profile as much as big game. make sense? so >whats
>the typical profile of  big game?
So, you have no idea about small game because you deemed them too small to
be of value in the human diet? What makes you think that people would eat
game in the same proportions as the size of the animal? That is, that people
would eat fewer small animals simply because they are smaller? If you'd ever
done research on extant "paleo-eating" tribes of humans, you may have
noticed that the proportion of animals in their diets do not equal the size
proportions of animals. They eat them based on tastiness and availability.
Small animals, though tastiness varies, are generally much more available
than large animals, simply because of their size. It is much easier and less
dangerous (though perhaps more time consuming, except in the case of a few
species) to catch a bison weight of rodents, rabbits, 'possums, turtles,
birds, insects, etc. than it is to catch a single bison. I don't have
references, just personal experience (I have hunted, never with guns and
sometimes without any weapon at all) and memory of articles that I have
read.

-Ellie

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