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Q&A Wolves and Hyenas--Allies For Life

In recent years, we have found evidence in the Negev Desert of the Middle East of a striped hyena, a solitary carnivoran, tagging along with a pack of wolves. This sort of alliance is found nowher...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by JohnWDailey‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by JohnWDailey‭

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Q&A In a 'Zootopia' situation who's in power, the Elephant or the Mouse?

Imagine a situation kind of like Zootopia with many different creatures all living in one environment, some significantly larger than others. These species aren't necessarily furries like in Zooto...

5 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by dsollen‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by dsollen‭

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Q&A Could an octopus ride a bicycle?

I'm imagining a scenario where there is a conflict between humans and intelligent octopuses. The humans' main mode of transport is the bicycle. The octopuses decide to stage a night raid whereby t...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by chasly from UK‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by chasly from UK‭

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Q&A Would a society with two different species that can interbreed be viable?

One species has two genders, like humans, the other has three(essentially male, female, and one without breeding capabilities that first appears as a genetic quirk but quickly becomes more prominen...

5 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by EnglandsGirl1818‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by EnglandsGirl1818‭

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Q&A What tweaks could be made to a society of intelligent hypercarnivores to allow them to compete with agrarian societies?

The Background On a single fairly sizeable continent live two intelligent species. Regular humans, and a species of intelligent wolf-people. The latter aren't actually descended from wolves, but ...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Ynneadwraith‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Ynneadwraith‭

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Q&A Reasons People Wouldn't Weaponize These Gravity Machines

So when making my space stories I have put them in a technological time in history where gravity manipulators are available to the common creature and you can use it to go to other planets and live...

6 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Amoeba‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Amoeba‭

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Q&A How can I keep sapient species away from each other?

Many other questions, as well as a few online sources, all agree that in order for me to have multiple sapient species in my world, they need to be either separated by a natural landscape or not a ...

14 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Uncle Tres‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Uncle Tres‭

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Q&A What are the implications of multiple cooperating intelligent species with different spectral ranges for vision?

Suppose you had two intelligent species that came together and built a society or whatever. For the sake of example, we'll call them species A and species B. Species A evolved to see some subset of...

4 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Beefster‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Beefster‭

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Q&A 3 species pride, could it work?

1 of my stories involves a pride. But not just any old lion pride. No, my story involves a pride with 3 different big cat species. I don't know if I should put character histories here or whether t...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Caters‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Caters‭

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Q&A Two or more advanced civilizations aren't even aware of each other

Humans have achieved FTL and have colonized several planets in our greater stellar neighborhood. While we have discovered several planets that harbor life as we know it, we have not yet discovered ...

20 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Adam‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Adam‭

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Q&A How do you communicate with antimatter beings?

So aliens have arrived in the solar system. They have faster-than-light travel technology and the ability to handwave away the supposed causality violations that such an invention causes They're ...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Zxyrra‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Zxyrra‭

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Q&A How do you communicate with dark matter beings?

Sister question to How do you communicate with antimatter beings? Defining dark matter for this question According to NASA, 27% of the universe is dark matter - and about 5% of the unive...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Zxyrra‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Zxyrra‭

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Q&A Can multiple intelligent species coexist?

I am considering specifically multiple intelligent species that all evolved on the same planet, and whether it is plausible that they will end up in a multi-species society or whether one species w...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by user289661‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by user289661‭

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Q&A How to deal with a friendly Boghog without hurting it, and maintaining a positive relationship?

In the Hickhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Mostly Harmless, on the planet NowWhat there are the Boghogs, and their way of communicating is to bite each other very hard on the thigh, so my question is,...

1 answer  ·  posted 9y ago by System‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

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Q&A How can an unimaginably huge life form reliably communicate with mortals?

The Starmakers are vast. Stars are their seeds, supernovae their hatching. Unimaginable millennia pass before they even begin to blink at their neighbours, and they do not die, merely pass along th...

15 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Joe Bloggs‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Joe Bloggs‭

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Q&A An equilibrium for competing sapient species

What scientifically, socially and logically plausible mechanisms allow two (or more) sapient land-based species (either closely placed on the phylogenetic tree, such as Homo sapiens and Homo neande...

5 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by rumguff‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by rumguff‭

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Q&A Is it plausible that there could be an alien species that has the capacity to mate with and share genetic material with many other alien species?

Kind of a "universal donor" or "universal recipient"? Aliens that can take on the qualities of several kinds of species and recombine them to make a kind of "super" being?

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by AC_Latham‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by AC_Latham‭

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Q&A If I had an alien race, how would they interpret our numerical characters as being numbers?

So say we discovered aliens through a wormhole near Saturn (Interstellar anyone?). Congratz to us! But we have a bigger issue in trying to communicate with them. They developed in a completely dif...

5 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Anoplexian - Reinstate Monica‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Anoplexian - Reinstate Monica‭

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Q&A Can an 'unadvanced' species accidently uplift another species?

With all this talk of Alien Lifeforms over the past few weeks, I have been pondering a small question. May be a simple yes, no answer. May not. Can a species accidently uplift another species? I s...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by EveryBitHelps‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by EveryBitHelps‭

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Q&A Would a sapient species have to be the dominant species?

There have been countless (literally) stories written that have contained within their pages monsters that are stronger, faster, and bigger than the human heroes. I can think of more than a few wh...

22 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by JDSweetBeat‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by JDSweetBeat‭