Alien Life on a Venus-like World?

Trying to consider how a walking, socially-active sapient plant would evolve and the world it would live in. More specifically, how would something which is essentially a walking tree living in a dense-atmosphere planet see the world.

Assuming the conditions were ripe for such a thing to appear, how would it see the world around it? Would it be pseudo-imperialistic, needing literal living-space? Overly pacifistic, as a creature with a pretty varied potential diet? Scientifically curious, being able to stay awake basically all the time for an entire season in what's probably a dense, complex environment and developing a society within said environment? All three?

If I were a betting man I'd say the best type of planet would be like Venus with season-long days and nights- but without the "ultra-dense acid cooker of death" element, more like a much-warmer Earth with less water. Throw in a decent moon, that seems to be the glaring thing Earth has that our rocky neighbour lacks.

Would these conditions be enough to stimulate the development of plant/animals that could become intelligent? The thick atmosphere and slow day/night cycle might be favourable for fully migratory photosynthetic life that kickstarts this process.

posted almost 7 years ago

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