What do dragons drink?

Silentiea · Post by **Silentiea** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 11:53 pm

In response to you question, what, the consensus seems to be fairly complete that dragons do, indeed, drink water, and that this will not damage or inhibit their fire-breathing ability, if such an ability is possessed.

Airis_the_Great · Post by **Airis_the_Great** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:57 pm

Mostly water

Silentiea · Post by **Silentiea** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 1:59 am

The chalkboard agrees with you.

silver drake · Post by **silver drake** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 2:21 am

i read a book once that said that dragons drink a mix of milk and blood for nutriense. there is also a dragon that lives in ireland that drinks just blood. maybe orange juice

King Hoopla · Post by **King Hoopla** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 6:10 pm

How would a dragon get milk? They're reptiles, and only mammals can produce milk.

Silentiea · Post by **Silentiea** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:56 am

If you look over at the thread about classifying a dragon, most of us have decide that dragons aren't reptiles, but a different class all together, so they could have mammary-like glands and make something like milk.

King Hoopla · Post by **King Hoopla** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:43 am

Well, dragons at least have a reptilian ancestor, and most studies of dragon anatomy I've seen show no signs of mammary glands or anything of the sort. The only way I see one drinking milk is if it farms cows or something.

Silentiea · Post by **Silentiea** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 1:22 am

You can't say that dragons have a reptillian ancestor until you can produce a dragon, and all you can speak of so far as anatomy is theories.

King Hoopla · Post by **King Hoopla** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 11:21 am

All dragons have either scales or feathers. The only landdwellers with scales are reptiles and birds, so the dragon would have to be either a reptile, or decented from one.

Silentiea · Post by **Silentiea** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 2:01 am

A lot of dragons of myth had leathery skin. Moreover, many dragons are not ever purported to dwell on land, so why should we confine our anscestors to that?

Post by **vampirehunter42** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 2:25 pm

Hey the real thought is once most mammals reach adulthood they no longer need milk. And most of them can not digest it. The only reason we humans can do so is most of us drink it throughout our lives. But I don't, can't stand the taste.

And I have been thinking on this one, it fits into the same area as what do you call a 300 pound gorilla with a machine gun. What ever it wants.

siverdrake · Post by **siverdrake** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 6:20 am

dragons milk is if you take chinese dragons seriously dragons blood and they have a small gland on the reveresed scales under its neck that produces milk/blood

Post by **vampirehunter42** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 2:27 pm

Would you mind giving a reference for that. All I can find about "Dragon's milk" is a book about to come out, a perfume, and a really good sounding beer.

But I have found something on the use of "dragon bones" in China. This may be from the lack of milk in ancient China, and they used "dragon bones" ground into things (like tea) for the calcium.

http://www.itmonline.org/arts/dragonbone.htm

Silentiea · Post by **Silentiea** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:05 am

Truly intriguing, that.