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    10 months ago

    True, but eating them on a planetary level would counteract that, no? They could breed them to bite, even.

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            10 months ago

            As far as I can tell, none have ever been seen moving - they’re just reproduction machines. The lungs would make them, uh, pulsate? Also, I’m 90% this picture is not canon at all. I posted it mostly as a joke.

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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.