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Re: MOC: Dewback
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lugnet.starwars
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Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:31:08 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Bill Pfund wrote:
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Dewbacks being local is more logical than Banthas. After all, lizards are
good at adapting to desert conditions. Hairy animals not so good.
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What about camels? Hair is protective against abrassion from sandstorms, from
the extreme cold experienced at night or during the winter (though Tattooine,
being a predominantly desert ecology, probably doesn’t have much in the way of
cold winters, except maybe at those polar caps), and, in certain situations,
probably from the baking intensity of the sun (notice how many residents of the
Middle East still wear full-length robes with some form of head-cloth to protect
themselves from the sun). Lizards do thrive in greater abundance and variety in
desert conditions, since they can basically shut down during the cold
temperatures, and they don’t produce their own heat during the hot temperatures.
Maybe the banthas don’t have as much heat output as we do, so it doesn’t matter
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Indead - they are as big as an elephant, with no savannah grasses or trees to
snack on to keep up their mass.
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Now that could indeed be a problem. Still, dewbacks, tuskens, and jawas manage
to find food sources somewhere, so it’s not inconceivable that the banthas would
be able to as well. Especially those herds that are tied to the tusken culture.
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And the hair - I think the Banthas would be more suited for a wooly mamoth
habitat than for an arid climate.
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The arid climate isn’t the problem so much as the extreme temperature. Polar
regions are also very arid, because the air is so cold it can’t sustain much in
the way of humidity (that’s why your lips get chapped in the winter).
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| (...) Camel hair is not as long and is more reflective than the dark hair of the Banthas. (...) True - if the Banthas lived in a wooly mamoth habitat, it would be more tundra like than polar like. But I suppose the tundra can be arid to. I guess I (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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| (...) Dewbacks being local is more logical than Banthas. After all, lizards are good at adapting to desert conditions. Hairy animals not so good. (...) Indead - they are as big as an elephant, with no savannah grasses or trees to snack on to keep up (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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