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What do xenomorphs eat?

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maganaj16

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This must seem like a very random question but jokes aside really what do xenomorphs eat? To me the appear carnivorous because lets see...they have sharp nails, fangs, a inner mouth(with sharp teeth), and a spear tail. However most every time they kill they never even nibble on the bodies. Although maybe they only eat organisms native to their home planet,if they have a home planet. The only time i ever seen one do anything to a human, was after the human was dead in Alien 3. Another theory i have (though i think it is unlikely) is that maybe some how they provide their own energy, maybe they soak it in their skin or something. thank you for your responses.
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What ever is on the menu at the time.
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A lot of discussion over this subject has happened on the site, here are a few links that might help you get your answer. If ever you need to find something try the search function up top. :) From what I understand they eat anything and everything. There is a scene in the Alien novel where Ripley finds a locker that the Xeno broke into, apparently it ingested everything from snack cakes to batteries. O_o Click-->[url=http://www.prometheus-movie.com/community/forums/topic/5547]what do xenos eat?[/url] Click-->[url=http://www.prometheus-movie.com/community/forums/topic/4181]Does anyone actually know the life cycle of the xenos[/url]

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Well i don't know about the Necronom in Alien but the Xenomorphlol in Aliens, is a giant alien bug. So it probably eats other bugs or rotten meat.

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Or maybe, with them being bio-mechanical, they are more like androids so they don't need to eat?

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I would say they could probably eat about anything especially pulse rifle rounds
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Hahahaha!

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All I know is that they don't eat cats...mmm...that's weird, maybe there's something sinister there o.o
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but no one here has said something about space waffles
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maybe they work in the juggernaut factory [img]http://i1157.photobucket.com/albums/p589/jokerdeldesierto/tumblr_loma1jgSSy1qbqt8go1_400.gif[/img]
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not 'what do xenomorphs eat' I think this is a redundant question but HOW THEY EAT might be more relevant, and if I was a 'xenomorph' that might not be a fixed form entity, I'd eat like bacteria eat. And this is what Giger saw in his visions, TOTAL BODILY INGESTION.
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Well in Alien 3 one f the prisoners caught xenomorph 'munching' another prisoner and in the canon AVP:R xenomorph ate Mollys dad so they do like human flesh. . . Map made good point that cats and so on animals (in Aliens there was a hamster in a cage) don't interest them at all.

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I'd think they would inherit some of the host species 'tastes'. For example, a chestburster from NCC would love beer, one from Freeze or Cypher would love BACON or they may just love Waffles as Map said!

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Lol. Wonder what would they like if bursted ? ? ?

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So basically its been established that xenomorphs are like trash can sharks they eat whatever they get a hold off. And the taste of a xenomorph varies from creature to creature. Map did indeed make a good observation in the movies i always wondered why the Alien left Jones alive? Why not kill the cat? Thank you for answering my questions.
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Listen to the scientist: [b]Anything and everything.[/b] [img]http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/cleolinda/1427760/419007/original.jpg[/img]
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I always thought they might not eat, that maybe they are born with enough nutrients for their lifespan, which seemed to be short. I think their mouths are made purely for killing. I always felt the scene of it eating, in Alien 3, was a huge mistake. Killing out of a need to eat might make it seem too sympathetic, I like the idea that it has nothing to do with hunger, just the inability to tolerate other species.

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