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Feasibility of cold-blooded Livestock
The research I have done recently (searching through Wikipedia) has yielded that generally cold-blooded animals (Ectotherms) are able to survive on less food that their warm-blooded counterparts, and ...
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Edible Dinosaur meat
What would it take to have edible non-therapod dinosaur meat in a world where humans and dinosaurs have coexist since human civilization? Or would the human body or creativity find a way to eat ...
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How to feed a vampire blood spontaneously
Suppose a common situation with a vampire occurs. They're short of blood, you want to save them, you need to deliver a moderate amount of blood to them to revive them but you don't want to be ...
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How large could an animal that only eats blood become?
Sanguivores, also known as hemophages, are animals that consume blood. They include obligate sanguivores, like vampire bats, or facultative sanguivores, like the vampire finches from the Galapagos ...
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How much food/drink would it take to properly feed 6 inch vs 72 feet people if the amount they need to eat stayed proportional to normal sized humans?
So say that a 5'6/6 feet person is shrunk down to action figure size(around 6 inches tall/12x smaller) or comes from a human/humanoid species that is naturally that size, how much food and drink would ...
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Could flower heads be a sustainable primary food source for a species of omnivorous lizards?
While they 'technically' aren't lizards, these are very physiologically similar creatures that are pretty small (about the size of a hand) and lead very sedentary lives, mating opportunistically and ...
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Why would a near future society struggle to grow crops on a large level?
I have a world where its mostly in ruins. But its run practically by corporations and smaller factions. A large part of the world is recovering from ecological collapse, massive pollution that travels ...
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Carnivorous humanoids & the quest for a balanced diet
My fantasy world has a species of hominids that evolved to become semi-aquatic - their lifestyle is similar to that of seals & sea lions, spending much of their time in the water.
Now - given that,...
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What type of diet would be needed to sustain the Seadominians and keep them thriving
I created this fantasy race called Seadominians, they are basically merfolk. They are mostly bipedal, have scales covering all over, and live all throughout the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, also the ...
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Food consumption for transparent human body to make feel less odd?
What food transparent humans consume so that others can't see what they have eaten, like what all consumable food is transparent like water.
like how people find it embarrassing when people point out ...
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How could a ruminant become a carnivore?
I have a speculative evolution project regarding giraffes. For those unfamiliar, giraffes are ruminants and rumination is not viable for carnivory according to every site I have wandered upon in my ...
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a chemical component in vampire saliva to assist with feeding
I've been thinking about vampires lately, and I came up with the idea of a vampire's saliva containing some sort of chemical or hormone that assists with feeding. I think it would probably have to do ...
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What evolutionary pressures would result in metabolic INefficiency?
What evolutionary pressures would result in metabolic IN-efficiency being a fitness-increasing adaptation in an animal?
By "metabolic efficiency", I mean "percentage of usable energy ...
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How do animals evolve to have arms
My question is how/why does my creature evolve into having arms when it has none?
Context: I am currently creating a evolutionary tree for the first animals of my planet. My planet is the size of ...
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Could this Asp-Turtle keep itself satiated?
The asp-turtle is a truly huge reptilian whale
Its dimensions are 40m across and 200m long. To achieve this, its bones and tissues are very strong, strong enough to allow it to swim like a smaller ...
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