Species Discussion: Taxxons

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Big, black, bloated worms that eat everything in sight. Their hunger never ceases, and they'll even eat each other or themselves. They made a deal with the Yeerks and are voluntary hosts.

My question is, what would make a species evolve to be so constantly, unsatisfiably (is that word?)hungry all the time?

There actually is a gene mutation that can cause a human to be born with hunger like a Taxxon...Prader-Willi syndrome. I find it difficult to imagine life like that, without the mechanism that turns off hunger and never being able to feel full. Food has to be locked up around them, because they also have a degree of mental impairment.

I wonder if the food at the Yeerk Pool had to be kept locked up. Although IDK what a Taxxon's normal diet is, only that it must be something underground, given the digging part.

Do you think they have a sort of hive-mind, like termites or ants were depicted to? The 'living hive' made someone else think so, and it makes me think it might be true also.