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Blazing Ownager posted:The movie actually answers this question
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Jun 17, 2015 03:06
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alright OP i just watched the movie so i could answer your question looks like they hibernate for the 22 years then get restless as the eclipse gets close, swarm, and eat everything at first they ate whatever made the huge skeletons and that probably lasted them a while, so they spend a few hundred cycles eating 2 or three hundred space mammoths every 22 years, population gets bigger and bigger, the mammoths die off fully before the human settlers show up so the raptors are hungry and eat them up and then they show up during the movie and hardly get any food so they start eating each other they are pretty obviously high food chain things like Aliens so once food is scarce they eat each other to enforce true natural selection (which otherwise cant happen since even a retarded, crippled raptor could take on most prey) then the few left after the cannibal party go back underground and breed/hibernate, rinse repeat until either more life shows up or the raptors die out/evolve into a spacefaring superdinosaur
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Jun 17, 2015 03:43
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Harald posted:but it doesn't make sense to have an ecosystem where the only trophic level is apex predators. that's like finding an ocean with nothing but Great white sharks. not even any plankton or anything. except it is literally not that, they see giant skeletons of whatever the raptors ate before they went extinct its an ecosystem ruined by the apex predators that are now so hungry that their swarming feeding frenzy involves cannibalization
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Jun 17, 2015 03:45
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Harald posted:but it doesn't make sense to have an ecosystem where the only trophic level is apex predators. that's like finding an ocean with nothing but Great white sharks. not even any plankton or anything. It's not really a fair comparison considering we don't really know anything about the biology of these aliens.
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Jun 17, 2015 03:47
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SweetKarma posted:It's not really a fair comparison considering we don't really know anything about the biology of these aliens. maybe they are just big ants
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Jun 17, 2015 03:48
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TEAYCHES posted:maybe they are just big ants maybe they are literally raptors, which is what they are in the movie where the gently caress did ants come from
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Jun 17, 2015 03:50
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SweetKarma posted:They're sort of like ants. Except they work on a 22 year clock, instead of a 1 year clock. If ants can't find enough food to survive they seek out nearby colonies to steal food from or to just kill and eat, there are probably multiple colonies on this planet. If they can't find a colony they begin to eat each other in order to feed the queen(s). If the queen(s) die a worker becomes the new queen and naturally develops reproductive organs. Every egg she lays is actually a clone of herself. Naturally the colony will eventually die because of a lack of genetic diversity, but if they get a chance to mate with a different colony then genetic diversity is restored and the species lives on. SweetKarma posted:Ants are driven by the seasons. In spring they come out of hibernation, they gather food and breed during the summer, in fall and winter they go back into hibernation. The worker ants will actually form a ball around the queen(s) in order to ensure they are warm enough to survive the winter. SweetKarma posted:Can we just make this thread about ants because that's the only thing I know anything about. I feel like I could contribute to an ant-related thread. maybe if youd READ THE loving THREAD cursed lumberjack, youd see that this was a thread for sweetkarma to talk about ants
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Jun 17, 2015 03:52
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maybe someone could call or email Vin Diesel to get a good answer?
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Jun 17, 2015 03:53
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TEAYCHES posted:maybe if youd READ THE loving THREAD cursed lumberjack, youd see that this was a thread for sweetkarma to talk about ants I'm a myrmecologist. WTF do you want from me?
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Jun 17, 2015 03:58
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I think they are from another planet that came to the one in Pitch Black, and that habitat hadn't evolved to deal with these aliens. Kinda like cats in Australia.
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Jun 17, 2015 03:59
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They seemed active underground. Perhaps there is a whole underground ecosystem. Vast caves with water and fungus and plants. The equivalent of fish and lower order predators. Leading up to the apex creatures we saw on the surface. The eclipse culminating in a breeding frenzy. Or not. Its just a stupid movie with cool creatures that Vin fights
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Jun 17, 2015 04:05
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Weener Beater posted:They seemed active underground. Perhaps there is a whole underground ecosystem. Vast caves with water and fungus and plants. The equivalent of fish and lower order predators. Leading up to the apex creatures we saw on the surface. The eclipse culminating in a breeding frenzy. also space muslims getting eaten
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Jun 17, 2015 04:06
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The monsters are fungivores that eat mushrooms that grow underground and are quite content there. They didn't need to eat the people, they were just pissed off to find them on the surface during mating season because they don't want a bunch of menstruating humans around while they're getting their monster gently caress on. oops everyone already said this next time I'll read the thread gently caress you
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