Recent content by Saproxylic

From a nutrition point of view, I would lean towards an omnivorous centaur with a hefty part of their diet consisting of meat. The reason is simple. An average horse needs around 18 000 kcal (compared to 2000-3000 kcal of a human) which translates in a huge volume of plant food. Even a regular...

Thanks, I'm a total sucker for details as well! About the times spent underwater: Well, let's not make them too extreme. I would say the total upper limit might be around 45 minutes if actively moving, they might get a few additional ones if they just have to stay still underwater. Maybe...

Really depends on who's eating it... If you are a small organism that is used to feeding on bacterial biomass, feces are delicious and nutritios. Generally humans are pretty good at digesting stuff, I would say, the fecal volume compared to the volume of food eaten, as you can see in the...

Hello! Newbie here, greetings! I haven't been seriously writing for a good while, because life happens, but since I have been bedridden for a few days, I picked up a mental exercise of creating a fictional species of merpeople that would seem somewhat believable to me. The whole blob of text...