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For questions about animal life in general.
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What is the smallest animal you can train to shoot a pistol or similar ranged weapon?
Insects are trainable, and since you're allowing "other activation mechanisms", I'd suggest that you could stimulus-response train an ant or tiny beetle to walk onto stimulus = YES triggering mechanis …
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What ways could flight evolve besides the wings of bats, birds, and bugs?
Wikipedia misses one other kind of animal that engages in (longish spurts) of actual powered flight: the flying fish.
Watch the slow motion segment carefully, you can see that the fish dives out of t …
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Could I actually have an RPG-like animal companion?
"Dogs" is definitely the best answer from the primary world.
This question, as written, really is not about worldbuilding, even with the "to clarify" tag. It is, however, one of those "well obviously …
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Could an animal benefit from plant-like vascular tissue?
Neither Plant Nor Animal...
Some preliminaries:
Typical animal vascular systems are active -- some kind of muscular body pushes fluid throughout the animal's body via some kind vascular system
Typica …
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For what reasons would an animal species NOT cross a *horizontal* land bridge?
One obvious answer is that the land bridge itself lacks food.
Nothumans can cross the Bridge because they're smart and pack a lunch. Nothorses can't cross the Bridge because that region lacks fodder …
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How effective/plausible is vibration sense in the air?
YES
The sense of hearing is exactly what you're describing! Although, a different sort of hearing, as you're not specifically interested in the primary sense of hearing through the ears.
Vibrations i …
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Could a non sentient land animal evolve an innate knowledge for making boats?
NO
I'd argue that beavers, e.g., do not innately how "how to build a lodge". Rather, they innately know how to cut down trees, move them and shape them into dams, lodges, etc. I do not believe they a …
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What adaptations would help an animal feed on mucosae that grow on the ground?
Nothing special, really.
What you're describing is essentially a static prey animal made of something that resembles gum tissue: its a mucous membrane, and it's pretty tough.
Your predator is pretty l …
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