Consuming food is, for the most part, straightforward. The meal is put in the mouth, it moves through the esophagus, it winds up in the stomach. Digestion occurs. The most noticeable set of teeth is something like a cross between tusks and the mouthparts of a bug. They would be useful for holding onto large morsels of food for the smaller set of teeth to chomp into. But how would food move further into the mouth? The Predator does not appear to have a tongue.
Nor does it have teeth that would be especially good for ripping or chewing. Just sort of gnawing. A leg of lamb or cow or pig? Sure, I can envision that. A giant bowl of salad? I guess the Predator would just dive in face first and see what can be shoved in by its tusk mouthparts. But what about smaller food? How does it consume sushi?
When busy hunting, the Predators don't have time to cook or prepare any meals. They prefer to hunt and kill the smaller game and eat raw meat. Predators gorging on bloody animal flesh is seen in several comics. In some cases, they skin the animals before eating the raw meat. The known favorite Earth animals of the Predators have been sheep, muskrats, and goats.
The crazed Yautja from Predator: Big Game seemed to really love making a bloody mess out of the sheep, possibly also sending a frightening message to humans. The Predator from Predator: Strange Roux enjoys a quiet snack of muskrat:. The Killer Predators from Predator: Prey to the Heavens feast on raw goat meat in-between fighting humans and other Yautja:. In the Predator: Homeworld comic, an ancient Yautja more than a thousand years old came to Earth to take down a trio of young Bad Blood Predators.
The hunt in Yellowstone park took several days and the elderly Yautja had to find something to eat. Instead of gorging on raw meat like some of his younger brethren, he chose to feast on roots.
The Elder was also very tribal in nature, so the plant diet seemed to fit him well. It is interesting that the comic hints that Earth was the original homeworld of the Predators, so it would make sense that they enjoy eating our flora. In The Predator movie, the Upgrade Predator hunted a group of soldiers in the blackness of night. He was hiding in a tree and pulled an unlucky victim up to the branches.
He bit into his brain and pulled his head off. This is one of the rare instances were Predators bite into human flesh, but probably not so much as to eat it. It is possible that Predators consider humans to be a valuable and respected prey, so they are interested only in trophies. However, there are several cases of humans eating Yautja meat in the Predator franchise.
One such occurrence was in the Predator: Strange Roux one-shot comic. Some Yautja clans display a distinctly tribal structure, including several females and infants living alongside the males. A female named Vagouti accompanied her husband on a hunting trip to Earth. It's been noted that she seems to be more calculative and hesitant to make an attack compared to her partner. Not much is known about the Yautja skeletal structure, as their remains are hard to come across and a full skeleton has never been seen, as far as it's known.
However, a Yautja skull was present in a Super Predator trophy-site. Doctor Miriam Revna noted that Dachande had four cracked ribs [1] , confirming that their chest cavities are protected by a ribcage, probably similar to a Human's. The Predator Scarface collected the skulls of his three brain-washed clan-brothers, and Hunter Borgia had a Yautja skull as a, presumably decorative, part of his own armor.
The Yautja naturally see on the infra-red bandwidth of light, most likely exclusively. This has been shown to be both a strength and a weakness, and has been exploited by some Humans.
Dutch was able to avoid being seen by covering himself with mud while being hunted, and Royce was able to blend in with another heat source, likewise to evade his pursuers. The Predators' vision can be altered or augmented with their masks. Several different vision modes have been seen, but their functions have not been clearly defined. It should be noted that, when the Jungle Hunter removed his mask, his vision changed greatly, but the same hasn't been observed with other individuals.
There are numerous theories as to why this is, the predominant one being that the relative temperatures of the jungle were very high and his mask aided in filtering them. The Predators who call themselves Hish-qu-Ten, or simply Hish, are physically and culturally similar to those who call themselves Yautja, but there are some peculiarities that suggest that they could represent a distinct biological variant of the race; or perhaps even a separate species. The most notable distinction is that the Hish possess what is called a "Kill Gland", a small cherry-red gland located beneath their clavicle, that produces a dangerous hormone that causes the Hish to launch into a homicidal rage.
Another distinction is that the Hish are sequential hermaphrodites, and involuntarily change genders multiple times throughout their lives, which could be triggered at random moments.
The Hish evolved in a swamp planet, and can survive twenty minutes under water because of a gas-sac that holds extra atmosphere. Most Yautja dedicate their lives to hunting, and seeking out "worthy" opponents, singling out the most potentially challenging species of each planet they visit. They're also known to abduct members of other species and bring them to other worlds to be hunted.
In terms of technology, they're most infamously known for their camouflaging system, which renders them completely invisible, allowing them to stalk prey. When they successfully take down a strong creature, they generally take some trophy, and an experienced Predator will have a whole trophy room in his ship to display those.
They frequently employ a particularly brutal practice of killing by ripping off the victim's head along with parts of the victim's spine. As a principle, a Yautja hunter will usually ignore those who are weak, pose no danger to them, and have no means of offering a fair fight.
However, there have been exceptions to this general rule. There is clear evidence that there have been mutually beneficial relations between the Yautja and Humans, with ancient civilizations that worshiped the Predators as deities, as well as performed Human sacrifice so the Predators could partake in their hunts of the Xenomorphs. It may also be said that the Yautja may have held considerable influence over some known Human civilizations, such as the Egyptians and the Aztecs, from teaching humanity about architecture and giving them certain technologies.
Furthermore, despite being much weaker, Humans have been noted by the Yautja as being respectful warriors in their own right. This shows the behavior of the Yautjia when dealing with warriors not of their own kind and when recognized, a notion of respect is given. Yautja are naturally driven to hunt for the most dangerous, cunning and challenging prey available in whatever planet they're in, and whenever they visit Earth, they opt to hunt Humans.
Some Humans have been able to defeat the Predators, even in spite of the latter's clear biological and technological superiority. Yautja often operate in groups with clear leaders, but there is little evidence about how their society functions, although they appear to be ruled by a King. When a Predator ship crashes on an alien planet, there is a quick response to the situation, indicating a governing force that monitors the hunts. The many distinct Yautja clans are governed by the Council of Ancients.
It's been shown that if a clan desires to have exclusive hunting rights to a planet, they must be petitioned. It is also shown that they seem to have exclusive use of atomic weaponry in Yautja society. Fittingly for a race of hunters, many Yautja have been shown to consume the meat of their hunts, but their eating habits vary wildly, from carefully-prepared ceremonial banquets to simply devouring the raw flesh of the prey after killing it.
They don't seem to worry about the potential biochemical difficulties of ingesting food that is alien to their own biology. On Earth, the City Hunter covertly raided a slaughterhouse for frozen beef. It was speculated that he was guided to the root either through instinct or scent. C'ntlip is a fiery Yautja brew that fogs mind and body with pleasure.
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