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Plantimals?; I came up with this at 4AM :D
Topic Started: Sep 23 2008, 01:51 PM (576 Views)
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So, I'm an RPer. A roleplayer. I typically do text-based roleplays online (Anybody know Gaia Online? Yeah...like that, but with less illiterate middle-schoolers) A voracious appetite for sci-fi and fantasy is a must, of course, but I recently started a new RP featuring several alien species. They're not meant to be completely feasible (seeing as the majority of them look pretty dern human for no reason) but one of the ideas I had piqued my curiosity, and I was wondering if it was, at all, in the realm of possibility.

By day, a still plant. Unmoving, rooted into the ground, photosynthesizing. By night, an active, oxygen-breathing predator. This would probably require two sets of metabolisms or...whatever, and be invariably complex. But it's an interesting idea, nonetheless, and a bit of a change from the usual plant-alien I tend to see where they're just green people who happen to exhale oxygen.

I guess that their 'animal' systems would have to shut down, during the daytime, but I'm not sure how that would work. Has anybody seen ideas similar to this, or can give me insight and some of the less obvious differences between animal and plant physiology?

The idea's ridiculous, but still a fun one, I know.
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i think this is facinating and a accelent concept maybe it goes through a daily metamorphesis the day form gathers energy and reproduces while the night form eats and finds new places too live as the plant like a type of migration.
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