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What would the natural diet of Bigfoot be?
Mushrooms
We have a few good other options but they overlook the sheer diversity of edible mushrooms the northwest offers: chantrelles, morels, oyster mushrooms, chicken of the woods. The list goes on....
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What would the natural diet of Bigfoot be?
They are omnivorous, with a diet similar to humans
All great apes share similar nutritional needs. Nuts, seeds, leaves, fruits, roots, and meat. Since Bigfoot are almost certainly great apes, and ...
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What would the natural diet of Bigfoot be?
The short answer is, their diet would be EVERYTHING.
At the size and bulk we are talking about, there is very little chance they would be able to survive on plants alone this far north.
As a longer ...
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What would the natural diet of Bigfoot be?
Taking the description from the book a Sasquatch is 7-8 feet tall and weighs in at up to 1000lbs, maintaining that as an active hunter gather needs, ballpark, ~9000 calories a day. Taking into account ...
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What would the natural diet of Bigfoot be?
Bamboo!
You haven't got any bamboo I hear you cry? Well why not? Just add some then.
Gigantopithecus, huge jaws and molars suitable for a hard plant fibre diet, remains found in areas of China .. we'...
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What would the natural diet of Bigfoot be?
maybe more omnivorous than a gorilla/orangutan but less so than a chimp or human given their temperate habitat.
This seems unlikely. I would have your sasquatches living like bears, able to eat ...
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What could be the base source of sustenance in the underworld?
All life is elemental
How could a similar base for a food chain be established in the large world below?
With Science you can't. Underground ecosystems are all massively resource scarce and ...
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What could be the base source of sustenance in the underworld?
Yes, you can just use LEDs to emit light. Problem is only that you need some energy source for these LEDs, although als your light-emitting lichens or so would need some power source.
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Can human based products be used successfully in making foodstuffs without any resulting products being flops or outing them as human based?
By and large, humans are not top cuisine.
Unless you keep your humans in near-pristine, free-range conditions, feed them a specific healthy diet and control for disease at all times, your human's meat ...
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Can human based products be used successfully in making foodstuffs without any resulting products being flops or outing them as human based?
Maggots can be used to recycle almost any form of protein. They seem to break down anything they eat into very basic constituents before turning them into maggot, so you can feed them with all kinds ...
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Can human based products be used successfully in making foodstuffs without any resulting products being flops or outing them as human based?
Frame Challenge
We could talk about regulatory compliance which would be a minefield in-of-itself - but the key issue is one of SUPPLY
In order to have good quality produce, you need good healthy ...
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Can human based products be used successfully in making foodstuffs without any resulting products being flops or outing them as human based?
Can human based products be used successfully in making foodstuffs without any resulting products being flops or outing them as human based?
No, not for long. Testing would out them as human content ...
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Can human based products be used successfully in making foodstuffs without any resulting products being flops or outing them as human based?
If the products are successful then the greatest threat to the CCC's secrecy is probably from their competition. Other food corporations will be buying and testing their food to find out what makes it ...
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How would researchers on an alien planet be able to support their dietary requirements?
Tailored fungi are the best option, per my answer to this question about space travel the best known producer of protein is Fusarium venenatum. As it's a fungus it can feed on the detritus of any ...
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What could be the base source of sustenance in the underworld?
Anything that reduces sulfur, or iron is a good basis if you want to go realistic and boring. Slightly more out there but still based in real biology are thermovores and radiovores, creatures, ...
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Agricultural Innovations of Pachyderms: High-Calorie Food
As another answer pointed out, by far the most efficient crop, that can pretty much cover 100% calorie and nutrient needs of your Elephantaurs, is the humble potato.
Even with primitive, Iron Age ...
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Agricultural Innovations of Pachyderms: High-Calorie Food
Assuming they're all Elephant when it comes to their dietary preferences they'll grow something similar to Oak and Hazel with a sideline in something like Bamboo and Willow. These species all grow ...
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What food plants/algae are viable to grow 9,000 meters beneath the sea, if given plenty of light and air?
Food Plants (and similar) That Grow In The Cold
I've been continuing to research this subject since posting the question, and have found quite a few more species that would thrive in the cold, and ...
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What food plants/algae are viable to grow 9,000 meters beneath the sea, if given plenty of light and air?
It sounds like your real concern is going to be that, at that depth, air pressure has to be much higher (unless you have entirely unreasonably strong building materials), which means that your humans ...
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What food plants/algae are viable to grow 9,000 meters beneath the sea, if given plenty of light and air?
Underwater fungi
If you would call an entity that's using photosynthesis as a means to produce energy for its life a plant, there won't be enough energy reaching that deep for any meaningful ...
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What food plants/algae are viable to grow 9,000 meters beneath the sea, if given plenty of light and air?
Can you exploit thermal vents from volcanic fissures as energy and nutrient sources? They can supply both to your farmed organisms, or at least, insert a trophic level based on sulfur assimilation to ...
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What food plants/algae are viable to grow 9,000 meters beneath the sea, if given plenty of light and air?
Marine snow
A frame challenge. 9000 meters below the sea is dark. Pitch dark. The sunlight does not reach the bottom of the sea here, so there is nothing that can grow. At least not on sunlight.
There ...
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