Feline Fish Farmer By Imperator-Zor Watch

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As a rule carnivores get a short end of the stick from the laws of thermodynamics when compared to omnivores and herbivores. A cow eats grass and turns it's mass and energy into cow, which a tiger needs to eat to turn it's mass and energy into a tiger. This makes building a civilization more difficult even for a highly intelligent carnivorous species difficult as it takes more effort to get enough calories to support specialists and permanent settlements. Developing animal husbandry is definitely possible, but that would often mean living as pastoral nomads who's possessions are tools in what they can live.



If I was to imagine how a race of carnivores (such as this anthropomorphic feline) developing a civilization it would need to develop some form of intensive breeding of livestock. Between cities and towns dedicated to pastures to raising meat animals, most likely with some crops raised for fodder to feed them (and probably to make up some section of the diet of the largely meat eating population (most likely the poorest sections of that population) to pad out food). Most likely these urbanized cultures would emerge along coastlines and especially rivers to reap the benefit of fishing. Human cultures like the Salish managed to establish largely sedentary communities using fish traps. Ass such I would imagine that the Foundational staple crop of a carnivorous would most likely be fish. Fish like Tilapia breed in large quantities and grow quickly (reaching full size in as short a time in a few short months) while they can be raised in smaller plots of land in large numbers. As such, where possible such a society would probably flood large sections of land to provide fish with ponds and divide large sections of coastal areas to the raising of saltwater fish.

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