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Could alien species with blood based on different elements eat the same food?
In my Science Fantasy galaxy, I have several humanoid alien species with blood based on different elements, including iron (essentially human blood), copper (like Vulcans from Star Trek with green ...
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How would researchers on an alien planet be able to support their dietary requirements?
A group of scientists travels to a newly discovered planet shown to support life in the form of plants and animals. Obviously they can only bring so much food with them so at some point they would ...
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Insectoids and the concept of 'eating well' [closed]
In this project of mine a species of sapient, spacefaring insectoids exists among humans and humanoid species. The insectoids are puzzled by something in humanoid cultures- specifically the idea of ...
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How can a species be fine with digesting poisons and toxins?
I have an alien species of roughly earthlike anatomy and biochemistry (so they can consume earth food, and humans would be able to digest their foods as well)
These species have a trait that allows ...
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Would an animal whose diet consisted solely of sugary foods taste sweet?
These animals are nectarivorous in nature, eating sap, nectar, and honey (Though they are not bees, they are vertebrates.), but as they became more intelligent and advanced, they also incorporated ...
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What would a nectarivorous animal do with waste it can't expel?
I'm reading about these species of aliens that survive solely off of nectar, honey, sugar, and sugar-based products. It's not mentioned whether or not they drink water, but it is mentioned they ...
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What adaptations would herbivores have if plants had soft cells without walls?
The plants are organisms with soft cells that don't have walls. Their flesh is soft, with a gelatinous-seeming texture (rather than the fibre-based texture common to vegetables and herbs). Most ...
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An alien species that doesn't need to drink liquids?
Nearly all life on Earth needs to drink water to survive. But what if my alien species only needs to eat to get by?
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What are viable chemicals that could replace caffeine/catnip for alien species? [closed]
There's a fairly well known trope of Alien Catnip where some unassuming chemical is actually an alien's version of coffee, catnip or some other stimulant.
Examples include catfood from District 9, and ...
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How would you run and operate an interstellar, multi-species cantina?
Out on a small planet called Vernar IV located in the Ghan’Shi sector of the Galaxy, there’s a small restaurant and bar called “Tuang’s Taphouse”, which serves food and refreshment to many species, ...
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Pre-Spaceflight Alien agriculture Part II Predators and carnivores [closed]
This is part two of a question (link to Pre-Spaceflight alien agriculture part I: herbivores and grazers) last time I asked what would Agriculture look like for sentient herbivores, trying to figure ...
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Pre-Spaceflight alien agriculture part I: herbivores and grazers
One of the most important developments in our history as a sentient species was the development of agriculture. When our ancestors decided to grow their food instead of gathering it, it allowed us to ...
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What kinds of diet/intake changes would be possible for a race with extensive DNA modification abilities?
I'm building some alien cultures for my fictional universe. One race has advanced technology and culture enough to have accepted, regularly occurring, DNA modification available (EDIT: regularly ...
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Can a human eat alien food for the tastiness? And vice versa [closed]
Would it be plausible for a human to eat an alien's food (and vice versa) not because said being needs nutrition or such but purely to enjoy alien cuisine. Assuming the species is fairly compatible; ...
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Is it possible for a creature to exist that uses lye instead of acid to digest food?
As far as I could gather the digestion relies on enzymes which in turn set requirements for pH.
Is it possible for an alien creature to have a different set of enzymes that require basic environment ...
