Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDT March 2015
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: KOK on 18 Mar 2015, 23:07 ---That's Struthio ridiculencis. Species names should not be capitalized.
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I work in a science building of the University of Oxford; they got that wrong in the murals in the stairwell, and I've been grinding my teeth as I pass them for seven years now.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: mikmaxs on 18 Mar 2015, 21:36 ---Why are they so huge, is the question. They have no natural predators, they don't seem to need their size to hunt or gather food... it just doesn't add up.
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Size allows them to reach higher branches and gives them the height to see potential threats at a greater distance Muscular necks give them the strength to tear roots out of the ground. As herbivores, they probably are roamers; they'd need strong legs to travel miles to find food. They probably have more endurance than sudden bursts of speed and strength.
Form follows function though. I'm pretty sure that Jeph designed them to be ridden.
Loki:
Also, have you seen some of the flora? There are probably nuts and berries as nutritious as pure protein somewhere.
KevxD:
As adults they have no natural predators, likely still have to protect their chicks from predators.
Wildroses:
--- Quote from: mikmaxs on 18 Mar 2015, 21:36 ---I appreciate the attempt at science, but it doesn't seem to add up to me. Creatures don't grow that big for no reason (defense, needing to be large to feed from high areas, etc), for one, but more importantly it's (to my knowledge) nigh impossible for a creature of that size to survive on nuts and berries.
Why are they so huge, is the question. They have no natural predators, they don't seem to need their size to hunt or gather food... it just doesn't add up. Is there an actual anthropologist here who can plausibly explain this, or is it as nonsense as it looks?
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I'm not ruling out the possibility that those birds didn't occurred through the science of natural selection and evolution, but the science of genetic engineering because some idiot scientist thought: "Hey, wouldn't it be funny to have some big friendly herbivorous birds?" Some of my theories for Alice's world include it having a history of idiot scientists which so traumatised the people of history they now have Alices to keep it and people in perfectly balanced harmony, or that Alice is cleaning up the mess made by said idiot scientists, or Alice works for those idiot scientists who don't want their world to get out of harmony.
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