Re: Grendels was: FT-Fighters and SG-aliens

Answer - apparently this is used by a South African Frog - eating it's
young as primary food source.  BUT, I am a Regional
Analyst/Cardiographer
type - ask Beth, she's the biologist type!

On Thu, 05 Apr 2001 13:58:53 -0500 Andy Cowell <andy@cowell.org> writes:
>In message <14l5Ka-1qc5rcC@fwd04.sul.t-online.com>, 
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>> The adult Grendels are vaguely frog-shaped. They are fairly
>> intelligent (somewhere between ape and human) and of an extremely
>> fierce disposition. They will eat Grendel larvae (indeed, that's
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>A species whose primary food source is their own young?  I'm no
>biologist, but this does not strike me as a successful survival trait.
>What about the predator/prey relationship, whereby the predators eat
>lots of prey, the prey become scarce, the predators die off and breed
>less, the prey breeds more, the predators eat more and breed more,
>etc...?  Seems like one low cycle and you're in a downward spiral
>towards extinction.
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