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Jimbo Jambo
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With the generic separation of the other Pikmin in mind, I felt the need to further separate Bulbmin from the rest of the group, so I created a subfamily for them. | With the generic separation of the other Pikmin in mind, I felt the need to further separate Bulbmin from the rest of the group, so I created a subfamily for them. | ||
===Food and energy=== | |||
Just like animals, plants need food and oxygen to make energy. Unlike (most) animals, plants are able to make their own food through photosynthesis by using energy from the sun to combine carbon-dioxide and water into sugars, but they still need oxygen in order to get energy their cells can use from those sugars and other nutrients. It's easy to imagine that if a plant had some other way of obtaining nutrients, it might not even need to photosynthesize (though if it didn't it would arguably no longer be considered a plant). | |||
I'm sure Pikmin photosynthesize to some degree, which is probably how they're able to grow flowers when left in the ground, but when they're out working, running, and fighting, I highly doubt that the single tiny leaf atop a Pikmin's head is able to collect near enough energy to support such an active lifestyle. Since Pikmin are never observed to eat anything besides the occasional drop of nectar, I would have to guess that the Onion supplies Pikmin with nutrients from food they have brought it, which it breaks down for them so all that complicated digestive machinery doesn't take up precious space in their tiny, agile bodies. Pikmin probably store the energy in their bodies somehow, like how animals use fat tissue, and are "recharged" by the Onion at the end of the day. | |||
Onions and Candypops, too, probably don't photosynthesize much, if at all, given they have no leaves (or very small leaves in the case of Candypops, which live mostly underground and probably couldn't get enough sunlight to survive even if they wanted to). | |||
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See [[User:Jimbo Jambo/notes]] for ship part notes. | See [[User:Jimbo Jambo/notes]] for ship part notes. | ||