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Anonymous Mon Jan 20 03:53:00 2020 No.11316868 [Reply] [Original]

Why aren't photosynthesising animals more common?

Anonymous Mon Jan 20 03:55:17 2020 No.11316873

>>11316868
Because photosynthesis is a shit way of getting energy, you pretty much have to be a stationary creature to get any benefit.
Even the few animals that can photosynthesize that we know of don't rely on it, it's just a handy way to stretch out meals.
The energy an animal needs just to move is huge compared to what a plant expends.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 04:06:09 2020 No.11316890 >>11316868 Super effective to fire type and flying type animals.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 04:07:12 2020 No.11316893 >>11316873 But animals get all that energy from photosynthesising plants, directly and indirectly.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 05:50:39 2020 No.11317081 >>11316893 Animals only move to take advantage of photosynthesizing life forms and to take advantage of those who take advantage. Plant's don't have much need to move, so they don't. Plus they need minerals and shit from the ground.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 06:06:15 2020 No.11317101 >>11316890 Actually double super effective, though they gain neutral resistance against poison

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 06:08:24 2020 No.11317102 >>11316890 Actually double super effective. though they gain an electric resistance

Anonymous Mon Jan 20 06:13:51 2020 No.11317110

>>11316893
yeah but they eat lots of them, relatively. Like a plant will take a year building up energy stores in itself, and a non-plant will come along and munch it for a few days worth of energy at most. Herbivory and the food chain in general is dependent on eating lots of the littler guy

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 07:05:43 2020 No.11317154 >>11316868 Whoa it's almost as if respiration is a better way to get energy for more complex life forms than photosynthesis.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 07:51:53 2020 No.11317211 >>11316873 Not to mention they all have to be out in the open.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 07:58:46 2020 No.11317222 >>11317154 >Whoa it's almost as if respiration is a better way to get energy for more complex life forms than photosynthesis. You're confusing breathing with eating. Plants also breathe.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 08:00:14 2020 No.11317223 instead of photosynthesis we make vitamin D

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 08:23:46 2020 No.11317253 >>11316868 there was no evolutionary pressure for that

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 10:54:01 2020 No.11317486 >>11317222 Photosynthesis doesn't nourish plants. It is breathing. Breathing in higher life forms nourishes muscles and the brain.

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