Mythical Creatures/Folk (Spoilers ALL Books, including Words Like Coins)

[FoolishGirl]

I'm rusty on RWC at the moment, and haven't read any of CoD so I can't really comment, except to note that I'm curious to see

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how all these dragons are really going to be fed, and how they were fed in the past. Gigantic animals need TONS of food, especially animals that need energy to fly. Where is/did all of this living game coming/come from? I know that dragons can fly far afield to find their prey, but there must be some major herds of something out there, unless dragons feasted on...Elderlings?
Zoinks! [Kidding...kind of...I think! Umm, anyway, back to what ya'll were talking about...]

Warm blooded (endothermic) animals spend 90% of their calories just stoking the furnace to keep warm. Cold blooded (exothermic) animals need far fewer calories to survive. Some snakes eat just once a month, for example.

Very good point, Narya. I didn't really consider that point when I originally posted, that the same size warm blooded animal would need significantly more food than a cold blooded animal. What about the following?
1. A very large animal needs more food than a small one
2. Dragons grow very fast so they need more calories/building blocks for that purpose
3. Dragons would expend a lot of energy moving around a larger frame
4. Dragons appear to eat as much food as they are ever offered
5. Dragons seem to me to be much more active than a standard large cold blooded animal, e.g., crocodile
5. Presumably, the dragon population of old was much larger
Taking the above into account, I would say I'm still of the opinion that a lot of food would be needed to sustain this species.