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The Flood - Animals and their minimum food requirement

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Cthulhu

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From: Roe Dyelin

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Message 147 of 239 (346374)
09-04-2006 8:29 AM

Reply to: Message 145 by Bible Backer
09-04-2006 6:32 AM

Re: Query about figures.

As a general rule, giraffes don't eat giraffes. They eat plants.

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Cthulhu

Member (Idle past 5878 days)

Posts: 273

From: Roe Dyelin

Joined: 09-09-2003

Message 148 of 239 (346375)
09-04-2006 8:32 AM

Reply to: Message 1 by CK
06-27-2006 5:43 AM

For those who want to know, there's an actual formula for the daily food requirements of an endothermic carnivore.

It's 0.11(mass in kg)^0.75

For ectotherms, it's generally from 1/10 to 1/6 of that.

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