I'm working on something, and it made me think about how Animals are in relation to their animal brethren.
- Do they have the same birthrate as animals?
- Do they have the same extended lifespan as their naked ape cousins?
- Do animals benefit the amazing healing factor as Animals and Humans?
Animal BirthrateIt's not stated anywhere that Animals have the same birthrate as their lowercase brethren. I for one think that once the spark of intelligence strikes them, they become much like Humans, and their birthrates drop as much. Humans have a 1/500th the birthrate of normal humans. Animals would experience the same drop. What does that mean then? Let's take Chickens.
A chicken can lay around 300 eggs a year. So for a Chicken, that would mean a reduction to 2 eggs every two years, right? No, chickens lay eggs in a clutch of 5 to 8 at a time. So it's worse. Let's say the average is 6 eggs in a clutch. That's 50 clutches a year. Ah, so a Chicken will produce a clutch of eggs once every 10 years. And since the rate chickens become Chickens is only 10%, chances are that none of the resulting chicks will become Chicks.
But, if you have a 20 or so chickens that you get fertilized about twice a year, you'll get 160 clutches of chicks. That's on average 1,040 eggs, so you'll get 104 Chicks out of that batch. That's a lot of Chickens. They would have their own colonies. It also means when you see population numbers for an Environ, that's the
Human population. Now, these numbers are for farm raised chickens. Feral chickens take about 3 months to raise their brood, so expect them to have no more than 3 to 4 clutches a year. Still, that's a lot of Chickens. Ethical chicken egg farms don't fertilize their chickens because of that. And they source their chickens from ethical breeders. Ethical in that they raise the chicks as though they might become Chicks.
And that's just chickens. What about the other fast breeders, like mice and rats? Yeah, lots of Animals are out there.
LifespanThis one is pretty much a given. Capital "A" Animals get the extended lifespan, living for a very long time. Their lowercase relatives, not so much. Whatever makes them Animals, also extends their lifespan.
The Healing FactorThe final question is whether or not animals benefit from the same Healing Factor that Animals gain?
My answer is no. And not because it would make animals a nuisance, but no, because some folks would take unethical advantage of that. See that prize hog over there? We've pulled 12 prize hams off of him so far. That kind of ethics. And we all know there there are people who would do it to. They would find out how much of the pig could be cut off before you kill it, and just stop shy of that.
So, no, animals don't have the healing factor, but Animals do.
More thoughts about this later.