On 28 July 2015 at 21:50, Traveller <xxxxxx@btinternet.com> wrote:

> On 28 Jul 2015, at 07:52, Greg Chalik <mrg3105@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I would also suggest that what counts for land for Aslans in terms of value is utility for meat animal herding in the first place. Hotels can be built anywhere. Aslan population pressures is what drove their expansion. An Aslan female can potentially birth 12 kittens per year, and an Aslan male is likely to maintain two-four breeding age females while capable of reproduction. That is a lot of mouths to feed, who it seems are not as omnivorous as Humanity.

Since having your population more than double every year is scoutship to pop A in a lifetime, nothing like those birth rates could actually occur or the Aslan would never have survived - you just can't settle the galaxy fast enough.

​ See below​

 

In much the same way, a human female could have 30 children in a lifetime and a male could have hundreds, the average is about 2.

​ The average NOW is less than two in the United States caucasian population.

It had been about 12-15 before the Civil War.

Child mortality rate was fairly horendous​, and had been that way since ancient times.

The problem isn't population growth, it's the variation in child gender that occasionally creates third or fourth sons with no role.

​ I'm not sure if canon says so, but it seems to me that in felines female kitten outnumber male kittens

Still your point about demographic pressures is well made.

same pressures may have been those that forced the reach for the stars among the Aslans.
Earth may come to that one day when our curiosity is replaced by unsustainable demographics. First floating colonies on the seas, then orbiting colonies, and eventually...

GregC ​

 

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