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Subject: Elite Food

Ignore my gamertag. It's actually Dragonzzilla.

How can Elites eat? Do they attach a Metal Jaw? Drink liquid-foods?

  • 11.16.2010 9:12 PM PDT

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They have teeth for biting/ripping food apart. Then they probably swallow the chunk they tore off whole. That's my guess at least.

Why would they need a metal jaw?

  • 11.16.2010 9:20 PM PDT

I don't care. I really don't.

Probably the same way they talk: wierd and absolutely gross looking that doesn't resemble the way we do.

  • 11.16.2010 9:22 PM PDT

Ignore my gamertag. It's actually Dragonzzilla.

They have no bottom jaw or tongue. Well, they have a tongue, but its in there throat.

  • 11.16.2010 9:24 PM PDT

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Posted by: Dragonzzilla
They have no bottom jaw or tongue. Well, they have a tongue, but its in there throat.


They probably don't need a jaw, they don't chew more than likely, and if they do it would be horizontal.

How would one wear a metal jaw? This suggestion isn't working for me.

  • 11.16.2010 9:26 PM PDT

I don't care. I really don't.

On a more serious not, how about using the lower two jaws to hold the meat in place while the upper two chew it into mush and then after chewing the whole thing use all four to shove it down their throat, the toungue and throat muscles doing the rest.

  • 11.16.2010 9:32 PM PDT

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Posted by: Venator82
On a more serious not, how about using the lower two jaws to hold the meat in place while the upper two chew it into mush and then after chewing the whole thing use all four to shove it down their throat, the toungue and throat muscles doing the rest.


What I just read was absolutely repugnant.

  • 11.16.2010 9:34 PM PDT

I don't care. I really don't.

Hey, I never said it looked or sounded pretty.
Look at them talk and tell me you'd kiss that face, male or female (depending on your preference). They seem to want to.

[Edited on 11.16.2010 9:43 PM PST]

  • 11.16.2010 9:36 PM PDT

they prboly either just shove it in their mouth at the back or stick their face in their food and just use their pincers(or what ever you call it) to push the food in their throat.

  • 11.17.2010 1:26 AM PDT

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Posted by: CommieNick
they prboly either just shove it in their mouth at the back or stick their face in their food and just use their pincers(or what ever you call it) to push the food in their throat.

They are called Mandibles. and the tongue of an elite actually extends and fills the space between their lower jaws, think of it this way. the tongue of an elite is rolled into a snake like shape when not in use and stays in the back of their throats, when they eat, their tongue extends and unfurls into a plate like shape.

  • 11.17.2010 9:46 AM PDT

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Posted by: hannible II

They are called Mandibles. and the tongue of an elite actually extends and fills the space between their lower jaws, think of it this way. the tongue of an elite is rolled into a snake like shape when not in use and stays in the back of their throats, when they eat, their tongue extends and unfurls into a plate like shape.


And people thought my description sounded gross...

  • 11.17.2010 9:55 AM PDT

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With a spoon.

  • 11.17.2010 10:02 AM PDT

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Posted by: BC 742617000027
With a spoon.

dude, you didn't understand anything I typed dide you?

  • 11.17.2010 10:26 AM PDT

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Just look at the anatomy of their mouths. All of their teeth are needle like. They clearly do not chew. They hold up their food, rip off a chunk, and their tentacle like mandibles push the food back into their very wide throats, aided by the tongue, and they swallow. Anything not small enough to be torn apart probably just gets hand fed directly into the throat.

I don't think they would have a very good time with rice though.

  • 11.17.2010 10:42 AM PDT

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I've come up with a theory. . .Here ya go!

The Sangheili, being carnivorous in nature, will use their powerful mandibles to tear up the carcass before proceeding to devour. Their mandibles are not flexible enough to push the food into their mouths, thus disabling them to eat as a human would. They must first use their mandibles to tear up the food into large chunks as the carcass lay on the ground. Then they must manually use their hands to pick up the chunks from the ground and carcass and place it in their throat/mouth. The large chunks of meat will be forced down the throat by muscular contractions similar to the esophagus found in humans, keeping the food in their stomachs. The Sangheili have no need to chew their food as their bodies have evolved to digest large chucks of meat. Similar to how a snake devours its food completely whole.

  • 11.17.2010 11:19 AM PDT

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Posted by: GhostRyderCA941
I've come up with a theory. . .Here ya go!

The Sangheili, being carnivorous in nature, will use their powerful mandibles to tear up the carcass before proceeding to devour. Their mandibles are not flexible enough to push the food into their mouths, thus disabling them to eat as a human would. They must first use their mandibles to tear up the food into large chunks as the carcass lay on the ground. Then they must manually use their hands to pick up the chunks from the ground and carcass and place it in their throat/mouth. The large chunks of meat will be forced down the throat by muscular contractions similar to the esophagus found in humans, keeping the food in their stomachs. The Sangheili have no need to chew their food as their bodies have evolved to digest large chucks of meat. Similar to how a snake devours its food completely whole.


So, they eat like a T-Rex except there are hands involved? Cool.

  • 11.17.2010 11:52 AM PDT

I find you rather shallow and pedantic.

Eat like savages!

  • 11.17.2010 11:52 AM PDT

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posted by: Venator82

So, they eat like a T-Rex except there are hands involved? Cool.


It would seem so.

By the way forum-goers, Sangheili do kind of have a bottom jaw. It wasn't until Halo: Reach that Bungie was able to render the extra geometry necessary to show the Sangheilis' small lower jaw. You can see the jaw when they roar. e.g. The World Premier trailer

  • 11.17.2010 12:16 PM PDT

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This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
/slow clap for respect


:)
The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.

They have an underjaw.

  • 11.17.2010 12:32 PM PDT
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A better question would be, how would it look like if a Sanghelli vomited?

  • 11.17.2010 1:43 PM PDT
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Posted by: chotato
smart, interesting, seems out of place.


Official fan of Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty, (Problem with that?) Halo, and Bungie, also a total gaming junkie.

I've been wondering this since day 1. Maybe they eat with a spoon or something, then they just put their head up and dump it in?

  • 11.17.2010 2:04 PM PDT

Maybe they eat through liquid food in a tube? It's the future.... everything has been made very efficient, and this would be the most efficient method anyway, I guess
MP

  • 11.17.2010 3:09 PM PDT

"It is done. By my hands. The pyrrhic solution is ignited. All I have left is the quiet of space to lull me to sleep.
I will dream of you." - The Didact

Maybe they eat through liquid food in a tube? It's the future.... everything has been made very efficient, and this would be the most efficient method anyway, I guess
MP


Why would it be this way for the Elites if it wasn't for the Brutes? The brutes have a very ritualistic way of feeding. Nothing but carcasses of various animals are eaten. I believe it was Contact Harvest that discussed this? Yes the Elites are far less barbaric, but why would they give up their carnivorous nature?

  • 11.17.2010 5:17 PM PDT