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Does prey necessarily have to be bigger than predator when it comes to larger animals?
I am trying to create various fictional animals and monsters to inhabit my world. Many of the animals I am creating are huge, and some are even bigger than elephants. Some of these include the ...
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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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Viability of a predator that uses clubs to hunt (blunt hit attack)?
I think there are no predators that use clubs to hunt, maybe the closest thing is the mantis shrimp, but I think the killing factor are the waves produced and this happens in a very little size scale.
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Size of a litter for a carnivore with a high rate of death
So, I'm designing an alien race/civilisation of carnivore.
I was thinking of a very aggressive specie, who is both the alpha predator of his world and his own main cause of death.
Basically, a lot ...
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Anatomically Correct Carnivorous Tree
How might a carnivorous tree look or work?
The following conditions must be met:
Consumes members of the biological kingdom 'Animalia'
Possesses something resembling a trunk or stem of any kind
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Designing a creature with jaws to crush iron bones
In my most recent question, I asked for a material other than calcium and collagen that could form skeletons in alien creatures. My favourite answer was bio-steel; "Iron with a small percentage of ...
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Can I have a carnivore with large canines that kills by crushing the skull of its prey?
For this question, I've got a pretty large carnivore. I haven't quite decided on their hunting style, but am leaning toward them being an endurance hunter. They're comparable in size to a large ...
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Designing a carnivorous plant
Planet Swamp. As the name suggest, it is a planet fully covered with swamps.
A new kind of carnivorous plant has been discovered on this planet: when its leaves are touched by an animal or moved by ...
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How often must carnivorous grassland eat?
Don't go into the bonegrass. Seriously, unless you want to be dead. You go in there, brush the grass with your clothes, start to feel sleepy...
Before too long your limbs will go numb, then you're on ...
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