Top of the food chain?

[Apokryltaros]

Please don't do that ever ever again, to me, please?
I find the idea of someone coming up to me in order to vomit on me, even symbolically, and in jest, to be abhorrent and grossly insulting.
Someone said

"werewolves are the penultimate rulers of the food chain"

And I said,

"How do parasites like tapeworms figure in, then?"

And the next thing I know, its all

"Let's go puke on the purple lizard!"

If you people don't like my input, fine, I'll stop giving my input.

[Kzinistzerg]

Sorry. Your input is welcome- i was just making a statement. you may bonk me with multiple duckies if you want.

[outwarddoodles]

I thought the blowing of chunks of people was a little inappropeit. So, lets get back on topic here. Back to the placement of werewolves on food chains and webs, and bo parasites.

[Apokryltaros]

Sorry. Your input is welcome- i was just making a statement. you may bonk me with multiple duckies if you want.

Having once fallen down a flight of stairs trying to avoid having fake vomit thrown on me, and having not one, but two people throw up in my lap at the same time, at a demented third's behest makes me extremely unappreciative of vomit humor in general.

[Terastas]

Please don't do that ever ever again, to me, please?
I find the idea of someone coming up to me in order to vomit on me, even symbolically, and in jest, to be abhorrent and grossly insulting.

Obviously that was no man's original intention, so lets just cut out all the parasite crap with this:

"Parasites serve as an example that the concept of the food chain is a load of bull."

Anyway, in terms of the werewolf's position... There's no actual position dictated by nature, so it would entirely be a matter of opinion. An egotistical werewolf or your typical dumbass human would shout "Top of the food chain baby!" in reference to themselves, whereas a human or werewolf with half a brain would either way acknowledge either that there is no food chain, or being "on top" of the food chain is nothing all that special because, when you think about it, all an animal needs to be "on top" is to not be instinctively hunted, which would make humans just one species out of thousands.

[Scott Gardener]

On beating a dead horse:

The hitting of sensitive spots was almost certainly unintentional, and I doubt harm was intended. That it was done is clearly regretted.

On parasites and the "food chain" notion:

You beat me to my point. I've done my rant. A more meaningful concept in describing nature is a niche. Hunters, herbivores, and parasites represent different niches. Creatures that occupy the same niche compete. Not all hunters are in the same niche; for example, an amoeba hunts for other protozoans, but it's not a competitor to a wolf, which hunts mainly herbivorous mammals. Humans take up a bunch of niches and have invented several new ones, causing them to compete with a lot of different species. Some might argue that they compete with all of them.

Lycanthropy would be a very unique niche, but if one opts for a lycanthrope virus interpretation of werewolves, then the virus itself might not be completely unique. The bacterium responsible for botulism is only toxic in strains that have been infected with a virus that turns them virulent. Lichens are a fusion of fungi and algae; the fungus gains by way of internal algae the ability to benefit from photosynthesis like a plant. In fact, nearly all eukaryotic cells contain mitochondria, which are the decendants of symbiotic prokaryotes that carry out certain essential metabolic functions that produce energy. They're kind of like real-life midichlorians. (So, The Force really is with you.)

Of course, the ability of a mammal to mimic in perfect form a different animal is pretty substantial.

[Anubis]

Hi everbody,
Iam new here and was just wondering are ww the top of the food chain, I realize that I probably will be redirected to another room. If so I apologize for wasting everbodies valuable energy in having to click the mouse. That's all i got.

werewolves would be at the top well because LOOK at them. what animal would be stupid enouf the try to hunt a werewolf!

[Figarou]

Hi everbody,
Iam new here and was just wondering are ww the top of the food chain, I realize that I probably will be redirected to another room. If so I apologize for wasting everbodies valuable energy in having to click the mouse. That's all i got.

werewolves would be at the top well because LOOK at them. what animal would be stupid enouf the try to hunt a werewolf!

dragons are much bigger than a werewolf. Did you stop and think about that?

[Scott Gardener]

Humans would be stupid enough. In fact, let me put it this way. Werewolves as far as we can tell are fiction, but there's plenty of evidence that people in the real world have hunted them--and killed. (Peter Stump, Gilles Garnier, and many others, on a Sunday Bloody Sunday...)

[Kavik]

Humans would be stupid enough. In fact, let me put it this way. Werewolves as far as we can tell are fiction, but there's plenty of evidence that people in the real world have hunted them--and killed. (Peter Stump, Gilles Garnier, and many others, on a Sunday Bloody Sunday...)

Though Stump and Garnier may be bad examples (given the practices they admited to, and in theory not under torture at the time), but yes, people, especially those 'inspired' by the Church, have hunted werewolves, falsely accused them of witchcraft and devilry, and burnt them alive, flayed their skin, and other nastiness that makes the parasite conversation seem almosst preferable.