![]() ![]() Prey that comes of age will have to prove their sexual maturity by joining in their equivalent of the spanish bull running except getting caught means getting eaten with lots of ritualistic elements. They would want to limit the risk to themselves if there isnt a solid reason why they would fully accept getting hunted. ![]() If your prey population can see this relationship they can fit the predator species into a context wider than the deaths of a few members of their own species.īesides how healthy it is to not let your population out of control you need a reason why the prey would subject them to this type of culling. Reintroduce the wolf, you reduce the deer population, the surviving individuals are the faster and stronger and the habitat has a chance to return to balance. They also become weaker as a species as the slower and less fit can survive. In situations where the wolf has been eradicated deer populations rise out of control and eventually destroy their habitat. This leads to competition within your species for resources and ultimately infighting.Ī classic example of this is the wolf/deer relationship. They can only care for them in a situation where you have an excess of resources otherwise the less fit members of the society consume those resources. In order for a population to remain fit and strong it needs either a way to remove the weaker and sicker members of the society or a way to care for them. The down side of this approach is that your prey species is likely to come across as depressing. ![]() While not exactly the same thing, check out how the "reds" see themselves in Endless Blue. If your prey is suitably fatalistic, maybe they just don't hold it against the predators. Given all the strange things that give people a rush, it's not hard to imagine that your prey species have somehow gotten to where some percentage of individuals want to be eaten. There are humans who, given the chance, might voluntarily be eaten by lions. Maybe there are "good" predators and "bad" predators, and the prey see being eaten by "bad" predators as horrific the "good" predators could protect them from being eaten by the "bad" predators. This could work especially well if the predators do something for the prey in return, besides just "honoring them". Sacrifices could be willing, or otherwise (the latter are usually prisoners of war). Human history has plenty of examples of human sacrifice you could use for inspiration. (Christopher Anvil's Advance Agent may give you some inspiration.) Predators are seen as gods Maybe they're just fatalistic and feel that only the strongest of their own deserve to live. ![]() Maybe your prey's society wants to rid themselves of certain elements. This can go very, very dark, but it's also essentially true in the natural world. What better way to get rid of dangerous criminals? It's eugenics For others - crippled, extremely sick, or just old - being eaten might be seen as a way to die with dignity one last way you can make yourself useful. Some individuals may just be too depressed and desperate for it all to end. Some ideas: Being eaten is voluntaryĪllowing yourself to be eaten is a form of suicide. The most obvious thing is to have your society structured in a way that predation is cooperative. Even with that lowered kill rate, why wouldn't the preyed-on species have any enmity or distrust towards the predator species? Let's say that with meat preservation, these intelligent carnivores can stretch that out to four weeks. Tigers have to kill at least once every two weeks. But they've still got to kill members of the other species somehow. They preserve meat in order to kill less often. The carnivores respect their living prey and have rules to prevent excess killing. The problem is that the predators are obligate carnivores, and they've got to eat the other species, which are equally intelligent and sapient. Mothers will teach skills such as tool use and hunting to their children. Communication is done out-of-person by leaving messages in designated spots, which predators may check from time to time. Predators hold meetings at certain times of the year to conduct rudimentary trade, find a mate, and so on. They live alone unless they have young to look after. The predator species isn't completely solitary. They do not have especially complex societies or technology they live as hunter-gatherers and nomads. In this world, a number of intelligent, sapient creatures exist. ![]()
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