Apex Predator

[JimmyAgnt007]

We need a new kind of apex predator, Im thinking a 'Land Shark' of some kind.  Like the thrumbo it would roam through your map after a battle and gobble up the bodies, driven into manhunter madness if it doesnt get enough meat from the dead.

So you have a battle, you rush to clean it up as quick as you can for their stuff.  Or just strip their clothing and take the good bits.  Because there is a good chance that after a day if their are still bodies and blood that the 'LS' shows up and feeds at the battle site.  Eating corpses, drinking blood (technically, cleaning it) but if it doesnt fill its hunger bar (and it should be big) then it goes manhunter for more.  Harder to kill than a thrumbo, maybe a brain blasting psion pulse weapon to catch it prey. 

Of course the size of battle would determine the chances.  A battle with a few people wont be an issue but one with dozens of dead with lots of blood would really draw it in.

Anything to add?  Any ideas for your own apex predator?

[milon]

Agreed.  And skullywag and A Friend are working on a mod to that effect:
https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=17087.0

But it would be great to see Tynan's take on this in vanilla.

[Boston]

A scavenger is highly unlikely to be an apex predator.

All an "Apex Predator" is is an animal that doesn't regularly get preyed on by other animals, and sits at the top of the trophic level.

Bears and Wargs are Apex Predators, Human beings are Apex Predators. Hell we are the Apex Predator. Contrary to popular knowledge, humanity is a regular old killing machine. We drove the Megafauna of the Ice Age to extinction using some sharp sticks.

[cultist]

I'd rather see a dedicated scavenger animal like hyenas (or whatever fits the biome) that consume corpses when hungry and defend their food if you get near. If they consume the corpse, the items on it are lost (chewed to bits). Predators generally don't scavenge as long as they have access to prey.

[Kryc8]

I'd rather see a dedicated scavenger animal like hyenas (or whatever fits the biome) that consume corpses when hungry and defend their food if you get near.

I agree 100%

[JimmyAgnt007]

A scavenger is highly unlikely to be an apex predator.

All an "Apex Predator" is is an animal that doesn't regularly get preyed on by other animals, and sits at the top of the trophic level.

It would kill if it had too, think of a shark in a feeding frenzy, it smells blood, goes to the blood, eats whats bleeding, attacks anything else if it still wants too.