Fish have seizures when they die

[Lee23]

I shot a fully charged stasis rifle shot at a stalker. I hit it like 100 times with my knife. It sank a little, but started flopping around.

Sand sharks are the same, but a little more floppy

Bone sharks seem to still be alive. They shake like crazy and sometimes turn around to stare at you. Really creeps me out

[Wet Socks]

Yep.

[Lee23]

Maybe they don't die, and just get major brain damage.

[Emmagination]

I once had a dead rabbit ray inside my base who died as it collided with my base and clipped through. Every time I passed by it was convulsing...it was actually making me sick after a few minutes. I kept thinking "I'm just finishing building this and will quit the game anyway, no point in reloading right now" but after a while I had to...

[Xautos]

Being alien life, it's possible their neural pathways operate differently than those from earth, sort of like how a cockroach can survive without it's head for a few days before dying of dyhydration or disease. in this case larger predators on this world have a backup brain that sends impulses to the now damaged body but find it can't react and so it looks like it's have siezures, it's possible it could die or able to survive and eventually reawaken after near death when the body of the predator heals itself after a period of inactivity.

whatever the case, it is somewhat interesting to note if it really is dead. xD

[Bucky14]

they get triggered

[PreLife]

Originally posted by Xautos:

Being alien life, it's possible their neural pathways operate differently than those from earth, sort of like how a cockroach can survive without it's head for a few days before dying of dyhydration or disease. in this case larger predators on this world have a backup brain that sends impulses to the now damaged body but find it can't react and so it looks like it's have siezures, it's possible it could die or able to survive and eventually reawaken after near death when the body of the predator heals itself after a period of inactivity.

whatever the case, it is somewhat interesting to note if it really is dead. xD

So the creatures have the potential to have similar nervous systems to Jurrasic dinosaurs?
That's pretty interesting.

[Xautos]

Originally posted by PrehistoricLife:

Originally posted by Xautos:

Being alien life, it's possible their neural pathways operate differently than those from earth, sort of like how a cockroach can survive without it's head for a few days before dying of dyhydration or disease. in this case larger predators on this world have a backup brain that sends impulses to the now damaged body but find it can't react and so it looks like it's have siezures, it's possible it could die or able to survive and eventually reawaken after near death when the body of the predator heals itself after a period of inactivity.

whatever the case, it is somewhat interesting to note if it really is dead. xD

So the creatures have the potential to have similar nervous systems to Jurrasic dinosaurs?
That's pretty interesting.

It's possible. i wish UWE explored more into the creatures themselves.

[Stevcorp]

Earth lifeforms are pretty fragile. All their internal bits depend on each other, which means stabbing one thing causes big problems for everything else.

There's no guarantee that alien lifeforms would work the same way. If they don't rely on blood, for example, they won't bleed out just because your knife put a few holes in them.

[Xautos]

Originally posted by Stevcorp:

Earth lifeforms are pretty fragile. All their internal bits depend on each other, which means stabbing one thing causes big problems for everything else.

There's no guarantee that alien lifeforms would work the same way. If they don't rely on blood, for example, they won't bleed out just because your knife put a few holes in them.

again coming back to the cockroach, its internal systems are different, lots of different animals including humans have pressure points in their circulatory system to push the blood around and when there is a wound we bleed out, but a cockroach doesn't bleed out when it is injured, its body is capable of keeping itself from bleeding at all.

These creatures do bleed, but i wonder if it is sudden blood loss at the point of impact and after that there isn't any more blood coming out despite the fresh wound, possibly due to the pressure of the water and their own internal systems that create a sort of equal pressure point.

[Stevcorp]

Originally posted by Xautos:

Originally posted by Stevcorp:

Earth lifeforms are pretty fragile. All their internal bits depend on each other, which means stabbing one thing causes big problems for everything else.

There's no guarantee that alien lifeforms would work the same way. If they don't rely on blood, for example, they won't bleed out just because your knife put a few holes in them.

again coming back to the cockroach, its internal systems are different, lots of different animals including humans have pressure points in their circulatory system to push the blood around and when there is a wound we bleed out, but a cockroach doesn't bleed out when it is injured, its body is capable of keeping itself from bleeding at all.

These creatures do bleed, but i wonder if it is sudden blood loss at the point of impact and after that there isn't any more blood coming out despite the fresh wound, possibly due to the pressure of the water and their own internal systems that create a sort of equal pressure point.

Not to mention that the water is filled with "bleeders" that latch onto things. So the lifeforms have a strong incentive to evolve to cope with blood loss.

[Xautos]

Originally posted by Stevcorp:

Originally posted by Xautos:

again coming back to the cockroach, its internal systems are different, lots of different animals including humans have pressure points in their circulatory system to push the blood around and when there is a wound we bleed out, but a cockroach doesn't bleed out when it is injured, its body is capable of keeping itself from bleeding at all.

These creatures do bleed, but i wonder if it is sudden blood loss at the point of impact and after that there isn't any more blood coming out despite the fresh wound, possibly due to the pressure of the water and their own internal systems that create a sort of equal pressure point.

Not to mention that the water is filled with "bleeders" that latch onto things. So the lifeforms have a strong incentive to evolve to cope with blood loss.

if this game shows anything is that the common peeper has two evolutions, the Oculus and the Reginald, and you can see how different they are and how they evolved to their new circumstances.

boomerangs and eyeyes have their evolved equivelents down in ILZ as well. it wouldn't be toohard to imagine how malleable the lifeforms are on that world.

[Nyello]

I call it the quib. It rare that I have to knife anything to death though.