Nothing harms the sheep?

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This sounds like a silly thread (and I guess it is), but it is also serious.

I wasn't sure if this needed spoilers or not, so I just put it here as it is essentially a thread about the sheep, and not the story. It might need to be in spoilers though, but I wasn't sure. I've put spoilers in the mild places where I thought they were necessary anyway.


So... Gran Pulse, a land where all creatures struggle for survival at every waking moment of the day... Behemoths are at war with giant wolves, and even the monstrous and huge adamantoise have to watch their backs or they will become breakfast for the ENORMOUS Titan...

So how do the little fluffy sheep survive in an environment like that?

The planet follows survival of the fittest at its most violent, so much so that everything looks really hectic all of the time. Yet the little sheep just hop about, with massive grins on their faces, comfortably baaing at their leisure. At first I thought that they only survive because they hang around by a lake, but I've seen some stood right next to really fierce monsters before. Why don't they get eaten?

I mean if it only takes
Vanille yanking a piece of fluffy wool from a sheep
to make one cry, then how do they survive on Gran Pulse? I must admit that
Vanille
was quite aggressive, and that was really uncalled for, but surely with hundreds of powerful monsters roaming around they should have gotten eaten or suffered terribly? Yet they’re all smiling and acting as if nothing has ever harmed them, the world is pretty and they are free to skip over the hills.


I'm on the side of the sheep, honestly, and I loved seeing them there but it just doesn't make much sense. Even the chocobos
get harmed, and are seen being eaten in a cutscene
, so are the sheep really so cute that no creature (other than
Vanille
) wants to harm them?
 
D: Vanille the sheep killer! lol.
Uhm I don't remember her touching one on Gran Pulse but she did see the ones on Cocoon. I think the sheep on Gran Pulse are more badass in a secretive way on Gran Pulse than on Cocoon.

Vanille did say she wanted to squeeze the sheep in that city in Cocoon.
I don't really remember plucking though. I still say that the sheep is badass. If the sheep go extinct, the animal that eats it starves and it becomes a chain effect.

Blame it on the food web and food chain! D: To be honest though it's kinda like asking how a mouse could survive in the wilderness...or a bunny :hmmm: or an actual sheep :hmmm:
 
I've never actually thought about that before. I mean, I've seen the little things, hanging around with each other while a behemoth races past them, yet the little things aren't running for the hills being preyed on on anything.

Initially I would have said that SE just put them in for a bit of fun or something. It's kind of like an amusing contrast: "HOLY SHIT, AN ADAMANTOISE!!! Oh hold on, what's this........a sheep?!" kind of thing. xD

Or, if some Gran Pulse lore can explain it, maybe the bigger, meaner and scarier monsters on Pulse just don't like eating sheep? Maybe the wool isn't very yummy to them? So instead they ignore the little darlings?

I don't know. :lew:
 
I guess so, but it's just that we never see them getting chased or eaten when pretty much everything else does. I'm sure that the sheep aren't the only herbivores on the planet that would be near the bottom of the food chain.

As for the plucking...

Here it is :D (mild spoilers, but not really):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBrHWgg522U&feature=related

Fleur said:
Or, if some Gran Pulse lore can explain it, maybe the bigger, meaner and scarier monsters on Pulse just don't like eating sheep? Maybe the wool isn't very yummy to them? So instead they ignore the little darlings?

I don't know. :lew:
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Perhaps so. :D Maybe it is because things are so hectic that they don't get eaten... Many creatures are fighting each other all of the time and so can't spare the time to eat a sheep. The sheep however don't attack anything so they survive on their own, nibbling away at the grass. Perhaps there is a message that SE is trying to get out with this? :hmmm:
 
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Well that sheep could take the pain! xD

Maybe Sheep blend in with the scenery which makes them oblivious to giant monsters! They probably look like poofy fluffy flowers
 
LOL I definitely didn't see that cutscene while I was playing.

Maybe the sheep become evil killers in the nighttime and can ward off all predators. Or perhaps they're so small and insignificant that nothing cares to attack them.

Maybe they're in the game cuz they're so damn cute and cocoon is quite terrifying creature-wise.
 
Do you think they make good eating Argor?

For us humans that is.......what is the primary purpose of sheep in our world?

Food

Clothing

Help with Soil Erosion

And somekind of oil is extracted from them I think?

Food chains are an excellent point, they (Sheep) themselves exist outside of the food chain on Pulse .....think about it nothing ,that we are exposed to there, is a herbivore, save th Adamantoise, everything else is a carnivore, the sheep are under the radar a it were, they provide much less nutrition than the other monster, they are not worth hunting because the energy expended eating as Pulse Sheep is not going to be replenished ans then some buy there digestion.

When you can expend a little bit more energy and capture and devour a more filling meal why waste you time on a Freakin' sheep?

Yeah with some nice fried Potatoes and and some Steamed Vegies......that'd work Argor!
 
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As I was walking home tonight I stepped on two snails by accident and I wondered how the hell they could possibly survive as a species when they are slow as shit and they always walk across footpaths. They just do somehow, I can't think of any possible explanation for the snails or the sheep.

Oliver raised a good point with the food web and food chain. But I can't remember any of that hippy stuff that they taught me in high school, so I can't contribute anything on that particular subject.
 
You have to think that the path does not exist in nature.

And is a man made structure that has had no influence on the Snail evolution wise, I think in a damp setting in woods and rainforests snails are able to better disguise themselves and they emit a pheromone to mask there trail......its in the slime they leave on surfaces?

They get killed on the path because they are exposed, usually they dont travel along such lengths without cover and are there fore protected to some degree, but the path represents a block between them and there 1st damp place and there next damp place.......and at there speed its along trek to be exposed.
 
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The sheep are like Tonberry, sure they look cute but they're actually pretty tough i would expect them to have over 10,000,000 HP or something like that.

Perhaps the other monsters find them cute too and so they don't attack them, it's as good as any other guess.
 
Maybe they are like Yan from ff9, get too close and they Meteor your arse into the ground.
 
For a long time I have wondered why they are able to survive in Pulse. I think they have some kind of secret power.
 
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The sheep are 100% Wool, there is no meat on them so other creatures won't eat them. They know they are puny and weak, so creatures wanting to prove their superiority have no interest in fighting them.
 
I wondered about why there were sheep too :D Here are my theories

1. They're actually poisonous. They may look cute and fluffy but deadly inside.

2. I mean look at the size of the Behemoths and those other fierce looking creatures. It probably isn't worth the effort to chew the sheep and spit out their wool and bones when there's meatier stuff around. And who likes Wool balls in their throats?
 
I'm not sure I've seen sheep in my playthrough of the game. I can't even find any pictures of them.

Just shows how vast a game XIII is, I guess,
 
You can see them first during the mini game in the theme park and second at the pond in Gran Pulse. Adorable little things XD

Edit: you can probably find videos on them on youtube :D
 
They are the sole way to get the different types of wool (that you apparently just pull off them) and as a distraction/diversion.

As for their part in the biosphere- it could be that because of selection pressure that their coats have evolved to be poisonous or indigestible to the monsters around them so they are a step up in the "arms race" at the moment and that the monsters have plenty of other sources of food or they are in the process of evolving ways to battle the digestive problem.

Although they are very slow and are not fazed by predators so they show none of the classic "prey" behavior...
 
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