After the flood subsided, what would the herbivores have eaten?

Question

There would have been no plants after the ground had been submerged for nearly a year, correct?

Answer 1

If you'll remember, Noah didn't let the animals out of the ark until the dove had returned CARRYING AN OLIVE BRANCH.

This showed that the plants were repopulating. This is why Noah waited for this sign.

It is well documented that many seeds float.  It is reasonable to suspect that many seeds were floating on the surace of the waters during the flood.  When the flood receded, these seeds germinated, repopulating the plants on the earth.

Answer 2

Logic and creationalism do not mix. The carnivores would have eaten the herbivores on the Ark, and Noah would probably have been their first meal . It's just a myth, and not even an original one.

Answer 3

They didn't just leave the ark after the flood. Noah sent out a dove and it came back with an olive leaf. So according to the bible, there WERE plants. However, they didn't leave the ark right after the dove brought back the leaf, they still waited awhile.

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Genesis 8: 4-19 NIV

4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

6 After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark 7 and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth. 8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. 9 But the dove could find no place to set its feet because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark. 10 He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. 11 When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. 12 He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.

13 By the first day of the first month of Noah's six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. 14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.

15 Then God said to Noah, 16 "Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. 17 Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number upon it."

18 So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives. 19 All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on the earth—came out of the ark, one kind after another.  

Answer 4

They would have all drown.  Your question is in the wrong category.  This is zoology, not mythology.

Answer 5

Scientist believe that they became carnivores. Just out of plain desperation.

A modern example of this can be the African Hippo. Everyone believes that they just eat small fish and vegetables. No one ever believes that they would eat a smaller animal.

Most recently, video was taken of a hippo eating a Zebra in the river. A crocodile had made the zebra it lunch but got scared off by the hippos. The Hippos went right for the fallen meat and practically swallowed it whole.

The lesson is, you eat when you are hungry enough too! And at that point, anything will do.