Are the trollocs picky about the bird-head mating together and the goat-heads etc. or do they just pick one and wham-bam!(?)
If the second is the case then why aren't there goat-heads with beaks, etc. ? I think too much about weird stuff.
Well,my thought on that is cause a goat headed beak head will be more of a mutation than simple genetics. It's like when we get either our father's or mother's hair or eye color. It's one or the other, not a combination. That would just be too freaky.
So you don't get recombination between the beak and eagle face, so they always appear together, and both are dominant over the goat face/mouth combo. Or maybe there are trollocs born with a goat face and an eagle beak, but they just die so all that you see in the adult trollocs are the ones with eagle beaks and eagle faces. Or maybe trolloc chromosomes don't recombine, so you always inherit a full set from the mother and a full set from the father that are kept separate, keeping the eagle traits together and the goat traits together. Or maybe (and ooo, I like this theory) there's a single "master" gene that controls the development of all the "animal" traits, and if the master gene is a "goat" gene, the only the goat genes turn on and develop, and the eagle genes are just left inactive. EPISTASIS FTW!!
Perhaps some Shadow geneticists have this data, but we don't. It's also possible that there are, in fact, these goat-headed, beak-mouthed mutants, but they just die before birth or perhaps that mutation leaves them more vulnerable to various infections, or infertile, etc. Lots of other explanations, too.
EDIT: Oh, you already said that
This message last edited by BlackAdder on 20/10/2010 at 07:05:06 PM
I have a question.
- 20/10/2010 05:28:22 AM
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They have sex like humans
- 20/10/2010 07:32:12 AM
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The thing I wonder about...
- 20/10/2010 12:08:52 PM
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Re: The thing I wonder about...
- 20/10/2010 12:33:53 PM
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Maybe the genes are on a single chromosome with the loci really close together
- 20/10/2010 03:07:32 PM
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Its hard to say without some experimental data
- 20/10/2010 06:42:15 PM
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maybe the Lightsiders should capture Trollocs instead of killing them
- 20/10/2010 07:22:18 PM
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Considering their approach to hygene and diet, I doubt they care who they do. *NM*
- 20/10/2010 03:08:00 PM
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I like to imagine an elaborate courtship, and arranged marriages. *NM*
- 20/10/2010 04:05:48 PM
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Good idea for an outrigger novel - Trolloc Pride And Prejudice *NM*
- 20/10/2010 07:19:47 PM
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Re: The thing I wonder about is... (do they snuggle afterwards) 
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- 20/10/2010 08:21:31 PM
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- 20/10/2010 08:21:31 PM
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Mmmmm, HTS. Haven't seen that brought up in about 8 years or so. 
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- 20/10/2010 01:45:29 PM
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- 20/10/2010 01:45:29 PM
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HTS MMF ATM
- 20/10/2010 06:31:12 PM
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- 20/10/2010 06:31:12 PM
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it's specifically mentioned in the BWB if you want a reference. female trollocs = brood mares. *NM*
- 20/10/2010 05:09:10 PM
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That was the whole point of my HTS thread an age ago on wotmania... *NM*
- 24/10/2010 01:46:11 AM
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