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How are sapient crows utilized if there are phones for communicating?
A shaman society secret to normal humans, in the late 2000s era where phones and the internet exist: why and how would they still put to work their black feathery friends?
They were crucial before all ...
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How would a species with intangibility-powers deal with war and violence? [closed]
I've got an idea for an alien species with intangibility powers, similar to Kitty Pryde from the X-men or Mira Nova and the Tangeans from "Buzz Lightyear of Star Command". They are capable ...
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Could a species be highly apathetic to their brethren yet have a strong pack/herd mentality?
This species comes from a world 1.7x the mass of Earth that is about 75% water.
I would like them to be very apathetic so that when a space-faring species contacts then there is a definite difference ...
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How can bonobo that evolved sapience maintain their 'conflict resolution' strategy without risking spreading of STIs?
If humans die out tomorrow the two most likely candidates to achieve sapience after us are our closest genetic relatives. One of these, chimpanzee, has been discussed quite thoroughly in stories such ...
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How does my primitive species make baby carriers?
The Maruvans (plant/flowerlike species) are a very primitive and use Stone Age level tools. They can make clothes out of tree bark but I’m trying to figure out how they would make a baby carrier at ...
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Turtle Island Size and ecology
Disclaimer
I've had a look and the other Large Turtle posts seems to be world based or assuming the turtle already exists.
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My question is how large could an island sized turtle reasonably get ...
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Selkies with seal behavior
I've been doing a lot of research for my selkie characters and I really wanted to incorporate seal behavior into their society. (Selkies are mythical creatures that are mostly seals but they are able ...
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Would it make sense for animalistic shifters to have mounts?
Would it make sense for animalistic shifters to have mounts when they can shift into a large feral-like form?
That is, not humans that turn into animals, but a species of large humanoids that can ...
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What would cause a sapient race to evolve oral castration as a core cultural part of reproductive intercourse? [closed]
I'm trying to insert a bit of weirdness into the world I'm building, and one of the ideas I'm toying with is to have one of my 3 alien races practice oral castration as a core part of reproduction. ...
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All my species have their languages based on the same few words. How do I keep them from inventing more words through combining existing ones?
What I want this system for:
Language wouldn't be 'the one cool thing' only intelligent creatures have and
all cultures would be as far/as close from understanding each other
as from understanding ...
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What kind of places would goblins live in a fantasy setting with strong states? [closed]
So I got a fantasy setting that left the Medieval era and entered the Renaissance with strong states that can maintain both order and infrastructure across their territories. While there are 'wild ...
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Saving intelligent animals from abuse/large scale breeding
I have created semi-intelligent griffins in my fantasy world.
Semi-intelligent meaning that adult griffins have the intelligence of an average 4 year old human.
Now, I realized that once the ...
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Refined symbiotic species, Environment and life
Taking into account the answer by akaioi to my previous question (Would a human-like symbiotic pair of the same race be possible?).
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Is it okay if we turn it around a bit?
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The noticeability of intelligent animals [closed]
In my world that I'm building, {ha ha, see what I did there?} all animals have a small chance of being intelligent and an even smaller chance of being able to speak.
{Small chance being how much ...
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How would society react to mushroom cities?
Sometime in the near future, a caver gets lost in some caves in Arizona. He stumbles upon a city of what looks like glowing jellyfish underground. He soon realizes that these are sentient mushrooms, ...
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