do Xenomorph's meed to feed?

in the film alien 3! when one of the humans find a dead carcus they also see the alien eating the corpse!
if they do not need to feed, then why did the alien stay with the body, and eat it?

befor berth the creatur will eat with in its host making the host feel sick. sometimes they'll eat normal corpes if there's not enuff hive food.

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they hardly eat at all and only if they need to (usualy they dont see food for year)and they can go decades with out food inhibernation. but when they eat they eat the jelly like succreasion (made of corpses) the wall of the hive. and the wast comes out their mouth in the form of resin.

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lol yup watch the movies they show everything

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I dont think they do need to feed,but maybe when they have woke from hibernation the just need a mars bar I mean meat to eat.

Im the first (prototype) Alien Drone......I didnt come from the queen I was made in a lab by the jockeys,but Im still part of the hive...I just dont go by the orders of the queen.

Usually aliens will go into a COCOON state or HIBERBATION when all food and hosts have been taken and they will wait or only awake until new host or fresh meat arrive.

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No way, anything that uses that kind of energy would have to eat. Being reptillian they prolly dn't need to eat very often, so they prolly spend allot of time when not fighting stalking very slowing or lying still to conserve energy. And while they kill humans but do not feed off them (or at least don't kill humans to eat) maybe killing them is merely the first part in sustaining themselves... maybe they eat bones after the corpse rotts...

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if you play the game, aliens get food/energy from hive nodes. hive nodes get food from the soil, and aliens can absorb food from them. The queen would have to continue to get food from something to continue laying facehugger eggs.

i dont think aliens need to eat they just kill for fun or just to prove them self to the queen. like predators do

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EVERYTHING that is alive needs to eat, maybe they dont eat much but they definitly eat. they get their energy from food just like we do, they just dont need as much.

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the chestburster eats corpses for drones i dunno

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duh havent u guys seen A3 it maynot eat the whole body but it still eats

what do you get with a toxin that re-animates dead bodies and a dead xenomorph

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*Cracks knuckles* time to bust some chops as only a future Zoology major can...

Aliens HAVE to eat. And, based solely on principles of energy, they have to eat A LOT. Anything that remains that mobile with that many limbs would require a LOT of energy to remain functioning over such an extended period of time.

Just because you see the xenomorph in Alien 3 eating a corpse in one scene does NOT mean that it doesn't eat more.

Xenomorphs are predatory creatures, organisms of instinct, cunning, and stealth. ANY creature which expresses those traits HUNTS FOR FOOD. If they didn't have to eat there would be NO point for the aggressive actions the Xenos displayed in Alien and Alien 3.

They would NOT hunt and kill for the fun of it, they are too smart for that. They are also linked to a hive mind, so a lone xenomorph would never take prisoners to serve as hosts for a non-existant queen.

Every predatory organism known to man eats its prey. Otherwise, there is simply no point.

yes aliens have to eat but not like we do proble a lot like ants and only have to eat like once a year and very little bit at a time


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That too is incorrect, and for the following reasons:

Ants are extremely small and live extremely short life spans. They do not grow much beyond their larval form, and die within a matter of days.

Ants need to eat very little simply because their size and lifespan are so short that they do not require the nutrients for a prolonged period of survival. This is also why they never sleep: once their energy is expended, they die. There is no recharging.

However, xenomorphs are much larger and more complex creatures. The bigger the animal, the more nutrients it requires, plain and simple. Being bigger means more energy must be expended to move and to function, and the energy necessary for such actions scales appropriately with the amount of food required to survive. Having additional limbs, such as a tail, and sharper senses and an advanced nervous system, as xenos do, greatly adds to this toll.

It is also very obvious that xenos are capable of some sort of stasis or hibernation. How long this lasts, however, cannoy be determined. They could do it for months, like mammals, or decades, like Water Bears.