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Would the diet described below sustain a human?
In my world I need to feed a colony of Kobolds. I'm modeling my Kobolds' dietary requirements on humans. My question is whether or not the following foodstuffs would meet the dietary needs of human ...
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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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Would a carnivore that can only see in infrared be an effective predator?
I'm trying to design new animals. One animal I came up with is a type of nocturnal & carnivorous predator that is shaped like a very large wolf. This predator sees in infrared light instead of ...
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Humanity is gone. What's the timeline of vermin infestation in an abandoned wholesale supermarket club?
Due to an accident during a transdimensional handwavium experiment, every sentient being on Earth was whisked away into another dimension. Humans are gone in a fiat.
Somewhere, during temperate summer,...
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How do Eagle-Men hunt?
The eagle-men are a race of aquiline creatures found in the wilderness. They are flightless and wingless creatures about 4ft in height, with legs like an eagle, a body partway between humanoid and ...
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Agriculture on a 15th century era Tidally locked Planet
What would humanity's most reliable method for food look like on a planet where the sun never sets, great winds raged across the land, and large-scale storms were commonplace?
I'm curious if large-...
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How Should Cuisine Vary Across a Geographically Diverse Empire?
The Argentolian Empire is a massive land that spans a region roughly the size of the continental United States. Located in the southern hemisphere of its planet, the north is generally tropical, the ...
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What is the minimum viable ecological pyramid a terrafoming project would introduce to world with no life to make it suitable for humans?
An unmanned, AI-controlled, terraforming ship arrives at an earth-like planet (i.e in the goldilocks zone of its star, with a magnetosphere, an atmosphere, plenty of liquid water, earth-like gravity, ...
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How do semi-sapient yeti/ogres live in the wild?
Assume that a species of bigfoot-type animal/person exists. Most of this also applies to ogres or trolls, whatever big dumb giants your particular setting has.
My world's specs:
They range 7-10 feet ...
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Realistic Alternatives to Dust: What Else Could Feed a Plankton Bloom?
Phytoplankton are not to be taken for granted. Not only do they form the core of marine food webs around the world, they also release half of the world's oxygen. But phytoplankton, being plant-like ...
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Could super-sized and intelligent detrivore aliens exist?
For my story I have an alien species who are detrivore. They are also an intelligent species on par with humans. But many people have pointed out to me that intelligent detrivores don't work, because ...
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Would multiple sapient species with similar diets cooperate or compete?
This is connected to a previous question, found here: Realism of a setting with several sapient anthropomorphic animal species
Presume that due to outside interference with evolution, a planet has ...
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Would it be possible for a population of snakes to survive by eating nothing but fruit?
I was thinking of a scenario in which a population of snakes gets stranded on an island in which they are literally the only animals. This hypothetical island does not even have insects for the ...
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