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[CL82]

Agree with you and CL82. But it does make one wonder what exactly did they all eat during that storm ;-)

File this under "you guys are thinking about this way too much", but my presumption would be since each animal had already entered into hibernation, they would have previously stored the excess calories needed so that they would not need to eat each other during their stay in the hut.

The better "thinking way too much about this" question is why wouldn't they all have frozen to death in a big hut that had an open door? Basically the ambient temperature inside that hut would probably be within 10° or so of the temperature outside the hut. Of course, the robot would've lacked information based upon what's necessary to survive for warm blooded animals. There would be no reason for her to design a winter shelter that would actually be survivable.

For those of you who are now thinking "wait they had a fire", you're not wrong, but with a wide open door, that's only providing radiant heat, so anyone who is not line of sight isn't getting much benefit from it. Also, why didn't the structure fill up with smoke? If the notion is well, there was a hole in the top then wouldn't the heated air exiting outside the top also be drawing in cold air from the wide-open front door? Anyway, where were they getting the wood for the fire? There was none stored within the hut or anywhere anywhere else around and the ground was covered with snow. Who was feeding the fire? Kind of tough for animals that lack a prehensile thumb to feed fire since they have to stick their face in it to drop additional wood. I mean, I guess the opossums and the raccoons could have been feeding it, but their hands are very tiny so they would find it difficult to place wood of any significant size in the fire.

Come to think of it, that movie sucked! It wasn't realistic at all! Oh, wait, it was never intended to be...

 

[CardiacAndre7]

File this under "you guys are thinking about this way too much", but my presumption would be since each animal had already entered into hibernation, they would have previously stored the excess calories needed so that they would not need to eat each other during their stay in the hut.

The better "thinking way too much about this" question is why wouldn't they all have frozen to death in a big hut that had an open door? Basically the ambient temperature inside that hut would probably be within 10° or so of the temperature outside the hut. Of course, the robot would've lacked information based upon what's necessary to survive for warm blooded animals. There would be no reason for her to design a winter shelter that would actually be survivable.

For those of you who are now thinking "wait they had a fire", you're not wrong, but with a wide open door, that's only providing radiant heat, so anyone who is not line of sight isn't getting much benefit from it. Also, why didn't the structure fill up with smoke? If the notion is well, there was a hole in the top then wouldn't the heated air exiting outside the top also be drawing in cold air from the wide-open front door? Anyway, where were they getting the wood for the fire? There was none stored within the hut or anywhere anywhere else around and the ground was covered with snow. Who was feeding the fire? Kind of tough for animals that lack a prehensile thumb to feed fire since they have to stick their face in it to drop additional wood. I mean, I guess the opossums and the raccoons could have been feeding it, but their hands are very tiny so they would find it difficult to place wood of any significant size in the fire.

Come to think of it, that movie sucked! It wasn't realistic at all! Oh, wait, it was never intended to be...

Honestly biggest bugaboo for me…Since when can animals even friggin talk?

 

[CL82]

Honestly biggest bugaboo for me…Since when can animals even friggin talk?

This one was answered in the movie. The robot sat for a day, listening to their various vocalizations and worked out their language. of course that only explains why she could talk to each individual species and not how they could talk to each other.

 

[storrsroars]

File this under "you guys are thinking about this way too much", but my presumption would be since each animal had already entered into hibernation, they would have previously stored the excess calories needed

However, in some cases, particularly the bear's, winter hibernation comes with a significantly lower metabolism due to non-activity. If the animals are awake and doing things, then they'd be burning more calories. And the squirrels would have a cache of acorns, none of which are seen in the film.

Yes, it's perhaps a stupid criticism when a movie is taking poetic license. But I've had this problem ever since being taught about Noah's Ark

 

[CL82]

However, in some cases, particularly the bear's, winter hibernation comes with a significantly lower metabolism due to non-activity. If the animals are awake and doing things, then they'd be burning more calories. And the squirrels would have a cache of acorns, none of which are seen in the film.

Yes, it's perhaps a stupid criticism when a movie is taking poetic license. But I've had this problem ever since being taught about Noah's Ark

Separate rooms in Noah's Ark mitigate the predation issue. I guess one has to presume some amount of grain, fruit, or other survival food for the herbivores and the use of fish to feed the predators.