How Does Zyra Eat?

FallingMeteor·9/5/2019, 5:34:32 PM·4 votes·6,538 views

She's a predatory plant that has a mouth. Does she eat like humans and other animals would, or is she more along the lines of other predatory plants like the Sundew that trap their pray and eat them via releasing digestive enzymes?

6 Comments

fictitiousfig9/5/2019, 5:50:16 PM4 votes

I'd say trap and break down, probs. At least in her short story, she wraps up her prey in her plants and seems to slowly kill them to eat. Maybe she can do both tho but im betting just the trap and consume.

NotaRobot10069/5/2019, 5:55:29 PM2 votes

If she stands with both feet in the ground she can absorb nutrients from the soil.

Unfortunately for the Kumungu jungle, dead people have more nutrients in them than soil does.

The Iceborn9/5/2019, 6:46:30 PM2 votes

Such a good question! I think that her plants eat for her and she somehow syphons the energy from them to her? ...

The Stripy Bag9/5/2019, 11:03:01 PM2 votes

Her short story goes into detail about how she tricks people into carrying her plants around before they grow large enough to consume every living thing around them. So yeah the latter choice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaPnyVzuiqE

Tailypo9/6/2019, 6:28:47 PM2 votes

Uh photosynthesis ofc.

QMighty9/6/2019, 6:22:15 PM1 votes

She eats through her hooves like an Andalite