Answer by Nightrider for Could an ecosystem entirely made up of parasites be...
There cannot be perpetuum mobile. It must be some source of the energy in the system.The possible solutions are:The worm consumes something that can be used to extract the energy out of it. Even inside...
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So nat'ralists observe, a fleaHath smaller fleas that on him prey;And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em.And so proceeds ad infinitum.-Jonathan SwiftWhat you're thinking of is called hyperparasitism,...
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Sure, it has an energy and matter input, it doesn't have to be a biological one. So the original creature gets it's energy and excess from non biological sources, then all the parasites after that can...
View ArticleAnswer by controlgroup for Could an ecosystem entirely made up of parasites...
As some comments note, it is impossible for an ecosystem to be entirely parasitic. Somehow, somewhere, there has to be input to the system - on Earth, that's in the form of stuff like phytoplankton...
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One of the settings for a story I'm writing is gigantic worm-like animal. Being so large it stands to reason that there would be comparatively smaller animals living within and on the surface of it....
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