What is at the bottom of the food chain?

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What is at the bottom of the food chain?

Post by TheManWithNoName » Wed Oct 07, 2009 5:17 am

Can anyone answer, what is at the bottom of the food chain?
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Re: What is at the bottom of the food chain?

Post by collegestudent22 » Wed Oct 07, 2009 5:19 am

In general, plants. Specifically, plants that don't eat other creatures. (Ii.e. not the Venus Flytrap or other carnivorous plants.)
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Post by StruckingFuggle » Wed Oct 07, 2009 5:24 am

Sunlight.
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Re: What is at the bottom of the food chain?

Post by Deacon » Wed Oct 07, 2009 5:58 am

Your mom.
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Re: What is at the bottom of the food chain?

Post by Rorschach » Wed Oct 07, 2009 7:18 am

Can't be. She eats me.
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Re: What is at the bottom of the food chain?

Post by Deacon » Wed Oct 07, 2009 7:21 am

Oh yeah. I guess that means you're as low as it goes, Rors.
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Re: What is at the bottom of the food chain?

Post by Rorschach » Wed Oct 07, 2009 7:24 am

While that would be true any other morning, this morning it's sausages.
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Post by enisoc » Wed Oct 07, 2009 7:59 am

TheManWithNoName wrote:Can anyone answer, what is at the bottom of the food chain?
Is this a homework question or something? This is an odd first post...
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Re: What is at the bottom of the food chain?

Post by kaiju01 » Wed Oct 07, 2009 8:05 am

You must first specify an ecosystem.
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Re: What is at the bottom of the food chain?

Post by TheManWithNoName » Wed Oct 07, 2009 8:32 am

There is no "bottom" There is no "top" just a cycle. never ending. never beginning.
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Post by bagheadinc » Wed Oct 07, 2009 8:36 am

Whoa...you've like totally blown my mind. You should write a book or something.
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Re: What is at the bottom of the food chain?

Post by Shyknight » Wed Oct 07, 2009 8:40 am

"Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the creatures, from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope ... When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass. And so we are all connected in the great Circle of Life."

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Re: What is at the bottom of the food chain?

Post by JermCool » Wed Oct 07, 2009 9:29 am

Hakuna Matata, baby.
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Re: What is at the bottom of the food chain?

Post by Arc Orion » Wed Oct 07, 2009 4:27 pm

TheManWithNoName wrote:Can anyone answer, what is at the bottom of the food chain?
Well, not anyone. Most people, though. Their answers might not be correct.

Oh hey, TheManWithNoName should be through the desert on AHorseWithNoName.
I need fewer water.
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Re: What is at the bottom of the food chain?

Post by Hirschof » Thu Oct 08, 2009 1:33 pm

Eat me.
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