12-20-2020, 12:26 PM | #71 |
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Would Attribute Substitution (Tactics based on Per) and Attribute Substitution (Leadership based on Will) be appropriate for animals? I think those two perks would allow for some of the instances of more clever pack hunters without giving them unrealistic levels of IQ.
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12-20-2020, 12:33 PM | #72 |
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12-20-2020, 12:41 PM | #73 | |
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I had a cat that would steal hot peppers and sauce rather than the meat nearby, and his sister would steal my prunes. But from what I've heard, many strict herbivores won't say, "no" to free meat. I believe there's even footage of a wild giant panda and hippos eating carrion.
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12-20-2020, 12:45 PM | #74 |
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Carrion is an interesting case because the decay makes it easier to digest, and herbivores can benefit from the minerals contained in the flesh. Some herbivore though do find animal flesh toxic (donkeys come to mind).
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12-20-2020, 03:36 PM | #75 |
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Now that is bizarre. It's often fatal to donkeys but not nearly as bad for horses.
I was going to make a joke about imagining if potatoes were toxic to chimps. But then I saw that they're also toxic to donkeys. Famous for being able to eat what horses can't subsist on, this is some ironic news to me.
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Like for example if we had to fight a guy with a knife, we know to try to get hold of the knife arm and not let go. A wolf may go for the legs and ignore the knife, allowing the human to gut the animal assuming they can tough out being mauled during the process. I've seen videos and read accounts of humans being attacked by large, dangerous animals such as big cats, bears etc. Often the animal doesn't go for the kill in the same way that a human would when facing a potentially lethal foe. It may injure the human and then retreat before returning or snack on a limb and then leave; it may be driven away by shouting and loud noises; a bear with human intelligence would never maul a human but leave them alive given they will certainly come back with several heavily armed humans who will hunt down and kill that bear. Last edited by mr beer; 12-20-2020 at 04:47 PM. |
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12-20-2020, 07:09 PM | #78 |
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Many years ago my family went camping to the same campground every summer for most os a decade. For several years there was a team of a raccoon and a skunk that worked together. You would hear a noise at night and when you went to investigate the raccoon was trying to open food storage and would knock some of it on the ground for the skunk. The skunk would stand between your tent and the raccoon and make I'll spray if you come closer signs.
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12-21-2020, 02:10 AM | #79 | |
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Some species of ants do use phalanx-like formations, for instance. In turn, the tactics that the phalanx is ideal for defeating is the cavalry charge. You could say this relies on, well, a horse. But if you see the basics of it, it relies on speed and turning momentum into energy, which you might achieve with anything heavy that you can move quickly. A buffalo charging uses the same basic device of a cavalry charge. Granted, a cavalryman is more versatile and has other tactics up his sleeve; but if we are looking at the charge alone, then the buffalo does it. If you see things in this way, then the basic components of some human tactics are used by different animals. Animals can't build a ballistic missile, true, but monkeys do use thrown objects as weapons, and so on. |
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12-21-2020, 03:20 AM | #80 | |
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Ants don't use close-order formations: they fight in dense crowds, but there's no formation there. And a phalanx isn't just any close order formation: it's one with moderately to very long spears, and possibly shields. Some modern animals can approximate short spears... The charging quadrupeds I'd suggest is actually something of the reverse case - they have a fairly decent analogue to the 'weapon' of shock cavalry, but little use for the associated tactics because buffalo don't care about breaking infantry lines...
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