Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-216.239.28.98-20140422001233/@comment-25154376-20140716204428

I'd like to throw my hat in the ring in regards to how the Grimm reproduce.

Since we know that all Grimm of a certain type (Ursa, Beowulf etc.) look almost exactly identical to each other, and that we never see a young Grimm with it's parents (like you would with normal pack animals), we have to ask: where do all these Grimm come from? If there is never a record of Grimm seen with young, shouldn't man/faunus hunted them to extinction? And how are there so many if we never see offspring? And why are they all the same looking?

Well perhaps it's because the Grimm, or the ones humans/faunus fight anyway, don't reproduce at all. Perhaps Grimm "packs"(or whatever the vernacular is for a group of Grimm) operate like how a Bee hive does, where one Grimm acts as "Queen", or Brood-mother, and gives birth to all Grimm in a specific area that is controlled by his/hers/its Brood. That would explain the physical identicalness. The Grimm we see fighting are actually just drones, who protect the hive and hunt for food for the "hive". This may also point to a hive-mind in which all Grimm in a Brood are controlled by the pheromones of the "Queen". This explains the aggressiveness of Grimm, much like a Bee hive, when intruding on territory controlled by Grimm causes them to frenzy the intruder to protect the hive.