Comments on: The Ever Increasing Size of Godzilla: Implications for Sexual Selection and Urine Production

By: Kaiju 101-Where Monsters Meet Reality

Kaiju 101-Where Monsters Meet Reality — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 07:24:32 +0000

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By: neko

neko — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 01:50:12 +0000

*** Film spoilers! *** This film explicitly makes G a radiovore of some sort, or something that feeds on radiovores without eating them.. maybe. Actually it wasn’t clear which from the movie, Actually, almost none of the science in the movie was terribly clear. Which is why it’s a movie. In any case, if like the mutos he’s a radiovore “absorbing radiation from the planet’s core” then he is sort of an autotroph. So instead of animals, shouldn’t the model be a plant or a fungus that does radio-synthesis? Unless he eats mutos. Which seemed implied when they said he was “hunting” them, and that he was the “top predator”, but then again he didn’t eat them, just killed them and took a nap. Which sort of makes sense, if they are parasites he doesn’t like. But then he wouldn’t be “hunting” them as food, then. So back to absorbing radiation from the planets core. Or maybe he does both. Like a venus fly trap. How much do they pee?

By: James A. Stearns

James A. Stearns — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 03:38:19 +0000

Just a minor nitpick, but the Godzilla seen in “Godzilla Raids Again” (1956) and which lasted until the close of the Showa era is actually not the same individual seen in the 1954 Godzilla. So there should be two 50-meter individuals on that graph.

Also, I don’t know how one would count them, but immature Godzilla appear several times as well, and at least Godzilla’s son who reaches adulthood at the end of “Godzilla vs. Destoroyah” (1995) should be included too. That would add another 100-meter Godzilla to the graph.

By: Nevenera

Nevenera — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 03:10:56 +0000

Maybe Godzilla was a teenager in 1950 and is simply getting older, don’t reptiles keep growing indefinitely until they die?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 14 May 2014 16:47:20 +0000

All I know is this is the 29th of these films. This shirt says it all http://smarturl.it/godzillaisback

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 11 May 2014 13:53:33 +0000

I think the 2014 godzilla is a sequel to 2004 godzilla. At the end of it, the building was destroyed including the eggs but one survived. After it grows more it fled to an island which they can provoked by testing nuclear bombs. Due to their testings to kill
Godzilla, it grew even more by absorbing the nuke and therefore the 2014 godzilla started.

By: Cameron

Cameron — Sat, 10 May 2014 03:21:11 +0000

I think you may have already addressed this, but isn’t Godzilla a reptile, since it came from a radioactive marine iguana? And wouldn’t that mean it produces solid uric acid instead of urine? I feel like that difference could affect the volume excreted.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 09 May 2014 19:20:57 +0000

Skyscraper’s are following Cope’s Rule. Skyscraper’s are alive. They’re alive, and making Godzilla bigger is the only way to stop them from reaching the top of the food chain.

By: Nat

Nat — Fri, 09 May 2014 00:15:26 +0000

So what category are the different Godzilla sizes using the Pacific Rim Kaiju scale? And more importantly could Godzilla beat Slattern in a fight?

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 08 May 2014 22:05:13 +0000

It might be like how elephants modify/maintain their environment by knocking over trees. Godzillas knock over skyscrapers, humans build newer & taller skyscrapers – requiring a larger Godzilla to knock them over, but (as you point out) providing a more energy rich diet in the form of more humans in the larger skyscrapers that supports the increased size.

The obvious experiment would be to hold average skyscraper height stable in a number of cities for a few Godzilla generations, but pack more people into them in some cities and leave the density the same in others, and see if there’s any selection effect in one of these environments.