• Numhold@feddit.de
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    10 months ago

    Interesting. So, if they can‘t move, they would have to reproduce by sending pollen into the air or something similar. I wonder how they birth their offspring. They would have to eject them at high speeds to reach new areas.

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      10 months ago

      Do you know those animals like bees and some fish that copulate once for life?

      It’s heavily implied that the tribbles do it once in several generations. So I imagine they do it when they get luck to be thrown together.

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        10 months ago

        So they either evolved to be parasitic by nature, or they rely on being pushed along by the growing pile of tribbles or they originate from a very windy world, where they move like tumbleweed.