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Apr 2 2016, 05:16 PM
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What about a terrestrial bird that had a long thin beak and long tongue like hummingbirds but instead it raided insect nests and fed like an anteater
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An herbivorous dog that hunts down other herbivores and predators to lower the competition.
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Apr 2 2016, 05:21 PM
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* I am fed up with dis wuurld *
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- Apr 2 2016, 05:19 PM
hunts down other herbivores and predators to lower the competition. That's carnivorous.
Herbivorous: Eats plants.
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hunts down other herbivores and predators to lower the competition.
That's carnivorous. Herbivorous: Eats plants. He never said it eats them, it just kills them.
Either way, sounds incredibly anatomically and energetically inefficient.
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What about a terrestrial bird that had a long thin beak and long tongue like hummingbirds but instead it raided insect nests and fed like an anteater
Amusingly that's an idea our founder proposed I believe.
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What about a terrestrial bird that had a long thin beak and long tongue like hummingbirds but instead it raided insect nests and fed like an anteater
Amusingly that's an idea our founder proposed I believe. Who founded this forum anyway? I'm not too sure
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Calls itself Will. Last time I heard it used the moniker "Livyatan", but it's been so long and it changes usernames on a whim. It? Does nobody know the founder's gender? Or if it's even human lol.
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Have you ever been bitch slapped for lack of listening? lack of doing what your told? cuz i'm not far from slapping you
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hunts down other herbivores and predators to lower the competition.
That's carnivorous. Herbivorous: Eats plants.
He never said it eats them, it just kills them. Either way, sounds incredibly anatomically and energetically inefficient. It doesn't eat them, just kills them. Do you think I'm an idiot?
I also imagined them eating eggs or another small amount of meat or protein to help with their mainly plant diet. I assume it would arise to help when meat is low.
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Apr 2 2016, 06:11 PM
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hunts down other herbivores and predators to lower the competition.
That's carnivorous. Herbivorous: Eats plants.
He never said it eats them, it just kills them. Either way, sounds incredibly anatomically and energetically inefficient.
It doesn't eat them, just kills them. Do you think I'm an idiot? I also imagined them eating eggs or another small amount of meat or protein to help with their mow oh plant diet. Did you mean to quote his post instead? Because I said exactly that.
I just said the idea didn't make much sense. It would have to have the anatomy to be able to chase down and kill other herbivores, which is going to conflict with its herbivorous adaptations. In particular, I can't begin to imagine how the skull anatomy, particularly the dentary, would function. Omnivores can eat both, yes, but they aren't adapted to kill large animals, so they wouldn't compare.
Additionally I question how worth it is long term in terms of energy. Hunting like that requires investment of time and energy, and I'm skeptical that investment is worth eradicating competition. If it is, why has nothing evolved to kill its competition like this? Such a phenomenon is only seen in predators, tellingly enough. Why don't hippos or rhinos kill competition? They're damn well powerful enough. Even in predators, killing the infants of unrelated members of their own species is more prominent from what I know, which might also discredit the underlying concept you have.
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totally not British, b-baka!
You like me (Unlike) I don't even really like this song that much but the title is pretty relatable sometimes, I guess.
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Yeah, and even if you don't agree with creationists on that concept, that doesn't mean they can't be decent people. I have friends who are creationist (possibly even young earth) that I get along with fine in general life. I don't think they're right of course, but that doesn't make them intellectual degenerates. ~~The Words of forbidden3
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When freaky aliens give you lemons, make freaky alien lemonade.
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But Souls are delicious. They're like bacon - they taste good on anything. But if you eat them, you completely remove them from existence! They can't move on or... or be reincarnated! Huh. I never really gave it much thought. Besides, what do you mean by reincarnation anyway? You know, being reborn as someone or something else. Which means different body, different memories, different experiences, yes? So isn't being reborn as "something else" the same as being "removed from existence"? I... I... eating souls isn't right! That depends on your definition of "right". All living things survive by eating other living things. So what? You're a god. You should be above all that! Gods are above living things, which doesn't necessarily mean we care about them.
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What about a terrestrial bird that had a long thin beak and long tongue like hummingbirds but instead it raided insect nests and fed like an anteater The Northern Flicker isn't too far from this already-- it can fly, but it largely forages on the ground, and it does eat ants with a sticky tongue: http://www.wallowa.com/20140305/bird-watching-flicker-a-feathered-anteater https://books.google.com/books?id=QBzgBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA41&dq=anteater+bird+flicker&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi88N_2ifHLAhWBWCYKHbM5D50Q6AEIJzAC#v=snippet&q=flickers&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=gy-TAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA78&dq=anteater+bird+flicker&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi88N_2ifHLAhWBWCYKHbM5D50Q6AEILDAD#v=onepage&q=anteater%20bird%20flicker&f=false I think "anteater" is also an older name for the Flicker, but I cannot find a source just now. The Green Woodpecker or Yaffle is similar.
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Apr 2 2016, 07:07 PM
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Have you ever been bitch slapped for lack of listening? lack of doing what your told? cuz i'm not far from slapping you
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hunts down other herbivores and predators to lower the competition.
That's carnivorous. Herbivorous: Eats plants.
He never said it eats them, it just kills them. Either way, sounds incredibly anatomically and energetically inefficient.
It doesn't eat them, just kills them. Do you think I'm an idiot? I also imagined them eating eggs or another small amount of meat or protein to help with their mow oh plant diet.
Did you mean to quote his post instead? Because I said exactly that. I just said the idea didn't make much sense. It would have to have the anatomy to be able to chase down and kill other herbivores, which is going to conflict with its herbivorous adaptations. In particular, I can't begin to imagine how the skull anatomy, particularly the dentary, would function. Omnivores can eat both, yes, but they aren't adapted to kill large animals, so they wouldn't compare. Additionally I question how worth it is long term in terms of energy. Hunting like that requires investment of time and energy, and I'm skeptical that investment is worth eradicating competition. If it is, why has nothing evolved to kill its competition like this? Such a phenomenon is only seen in predators, tellingly enough. Why don't hippos or rhinos kill competition? They're damn well powerful enough. Even in predators, killing the infants of unrelated members of their own species is more prominent from what I know, which might also discredit the underlying concept you have. I meant to quote his. I sort of imagined they would only hunt down other herbivores and predators when food is low. Sort of like a last resort.
I kind of just thought of the idea. That's what this area is for, not really a super in depth creature analysis.
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It's far easier to evolve defensive traits to protect what little food there is than it is to develop traditionally carnivorous behaviors to kill the competition.
This is the reason why you see herbivores clad in armor and in possession of weaponry.
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SSU:NC - Finding a new home.
Quotes - Steve Irwin
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I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.
- Satoru Iwata - Heart of a Gamer
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Even if we come from different sides of the world, speak different languages, even if we eat too many chips or rice balls, even if we wave different tastes in games, every one of us here today is identical in the most important way: each one of us was the heart of a gamer.
- The Writing on the Wall
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You should not have come here. This is not a place of honor. No great deed is commemorated here. Nothing of value is here. What is here is dangerous and repulsive.
- Parasky | 2015
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You can't be 100% certain Barack Obama is currently the US president, or that the nation of Canada even exists.
- Dan Avidan
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See, what I like to do now as an adult is take all that anger and frustration and push it down deep inside of me, until it becomes a seething white core of pure hate.
- Dan Avidan
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Follow your stupid fuckin' dreams.
WAA
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Apr 2 2016, 08:14 PM
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Aquagrabbers:
A aquatic Posthuman that has adapted to a Europa like world. It is short, and slimy. They still retain their five fingers/ toes, but one thing makes them completely alien. They have no eyes. Due to the absence of light of their world, they gradually lost their eyes, as they never had a need to do so. They are 3 foot 2, with a mouth filled with sharp, conical teeth. They have a streamlined appearance, with a short fin on the top of their backs. Males are more territorial than females. Territories cover the surface areas of the endless sea. They have had their lungs gradually reverted back into gills. Females seemingly spend their lives wandering the ocean, only occasionally coming to males to mate with them, who then leave the responsibility of caring for the youngsters to the males. Once reaching the age of 10, females tend to join the next group that passes on by, whilst males tend to find their own territory in the open ocean, unaware of the cosmos above.
Huh, might use this idea for my upcoming Posthuman projec... oh wait, was I supposed to say that? Oh well, I'll post it sometime.
 I thought of these guys when you described your Aquagrabbers.
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Apr 2 2016, 10:24 PM
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Hey, it's fine. That post actually gave me some rather pleasant and interesting dreams.
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Travel back through time and space, to the edge of man's beggining... discover a time when man, woman and lizard roamed free, and untamed!
It is an epoch of mammoths, a time of raptors!
A tale of love in the age of tyrannosaurs!
An epic from the silver screen, brought right to your door!
Travel back to A Million Years BC
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Proceedings of the Miskatonic University Department of Zoology
Cosmic Horror is but a dissertation away
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