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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rothe" data-source="post: 2945891" data-attributes="member: 39813">Arravis,  I wish I had the numbers here at work but you might be able to cobble an answer together from the internet.  The dietary needs of almost all mammals can be found from the concept of the Animal Unit (AU), as you might imagine farmers have this stuff down pat.  For a herbivore 1 AU = 1000kg (about 1 steer or goodly cow+calf), Edit 7/17/2006 so not to artificially bump thread, error in AU 1 AU=1000 lbs NOT kg your lizard is about 6 AU edit 12 AU .  I know you can find info on the internet on how much food you need.  Remember this is typically dry matter and good nutrition stuff like, hay, fodder, etc.On meat eating vs plants, grain actually has more calories than meat (ratio of about 1000 to 750) but you can probably use the AU numbers for a carnivore just as well.  As others pointed out, the biggest difference is that this is a reptile = cold blooded, which has many disadvantages (rarely reflected in RPGs) but one big advantage is they require much less food.  You can probably find this info on the internet by searching for cold blooded vs. warm blooded dinosaurs debates.  One key piece of information they use is the ratio of predators (by mass) to prey (by mass) to determine if meat eaters were warm blooded.  That ratio can be taken as the difference in food intake.  I have this somewhere at home as well.  I'll try to find it tonight but no promises.Of cousre this is barring the lizard having some adaptations like bears or camels where they can store up large food and water reserves respectively.  If this is a desert world,  I would suspect many creatures would evolve the camel strategy and also not sweat or move about in the heat of the day.  Another strategy is the Elan which just lets its body temperature rise (to a point) to levels that would cook the brains of most species.My personal suggestion, let the lizard stock up on water not needing much for a week or so.  Rule the food intake is 6 AU worth because the lizard needs extra energy to cool off and to carry all the stuff, etc.</blockquote>

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