Strange natural defense thought. Ink gland.

Now in Nature defenses against predators come in an amazing variety of forms from practical and expected to the down right weird but surprisingly effective.

I was watching squid girl some and a thought occurred. How effective would an Ink bladder be to esaping a Giant Predator?

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Now against somebody the same size well it's both pointless and excessive.. But Could it work against say a Giant Naga or Harpy? Realistically speaking it would merely be an distraction however you could aim for the eyes and they might drop you as even for a Giant ink in the eyes probably would sting.

Thoughts? Opinion?

Venom would work more effectively on land, and be more useful as well.

Hmm sounds interesting. I think something like this should be in the Chaelana Shaper's good bag on the wiki since I think the likelyhood of land based creature evolving
a defense like this isn't super likely and besides it would benefit anyone who was willing and able to make a trip to see the Shapers.

EvilGenius wrote:

Venom would work more effectively on land, and be more useful as well.

Considering Venon to kill something that large either must be in a very large quanity or be very very potent.

However as long as it's Black stings if gets in the eyes or up the nose then it doesn't need to be a lethal substance at all.

jedi-explorer wrote:

Hmm sounds interesting. I think something like this should be in the Chaelana Shaper's good bag on the wiki since I think the likelyhood of land based creature evolving
a defense like this isn't super likely and besides it would benefit anyone who was willing and able to make a trip to see the Shapers.

Well land based creatures with similar abilities do exist not on the same scale but that's not to say it'd be entirely impossible either. Realistically speaking if an Humanoid species were to have such a mechanism it'd only contain enough of the substance to attempt an escape once before requiring an good amount of time to generate more of the stuff and the bladder to fill back up. In short it wouldn't be able to be used frequently.

An example of an Similarly described species would be the Spitting cobra which has specialized fangs which allow for bite injects or to literally spit it's venom at threatening animals. Though in this case the venom spat is a small amount since it's a fairly small creature it isn't quite on the level I described.

Merku, please use spoiler tags when showing large images.

It doesn't need to kill, venom if squirted in the eyes is going to cause burning and blinding, try looking up the spitting cobra.

Sorry about that Stabs.

EvilGenius wrote:

It doesn't need to kill, venom if squirted in the eyes is going to cause burning and blinding, try looking up the spitting cobra.

I get your point. However the deffense in question is ink not venom spitting. Heck It could be gravy that's spat at the predators but as long as it bother's their eyes enough they let go of you to try to get it out it'd still work.

Course on the downside of a Gravy spitting defense you'd be the prey of choice since I'm sure alot of predator's would love some gravy on their meals.

i do not think ink would be effective on land. It is meant to be used as a smoke screen, but it doesn't hang in the air. In the water it would be far more effective, as proven by aquatic earth fauna.

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i do not think ink would be effective on land. It is meant to be used as a smoke screen, but it doesn't hang in the air.

Ah but what if it could hang in the air? Let's face it Felarya is a weird place that defies pyshics everyday before breakfast. Sandwhales for example. Why not use flying ink or some magical substance that looks and acts like ink only that it floats in the air? Just thinking aloud.

What if instead of ink, the creature just vomited normal fluids, but in huge ammounts?

Stomach acids in the eye would be a bitch XD

jedi-explorer wrote:

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i do not think ink would be effective on land. It is meant to be used as a smoke screen, but it doesn't hang in the air.

Ah but what if it could hang in the air? Let's face it Felarya is a weird place that defies pyshics everyday before breakfast. Sandwhales for example. Why not use flying ink or some magical substance that looks and acts like ink only that it floats in the air? Just thinking aloud.

Well something like that could be interesting, but I don't think we would be able to call that ink anymore xD

PS: that picture just made me want to watch the full serie , hehe