Talk:FAQs/@comment-24751993-20160423173819/@comment-4955085-20160424064446

Eh, I'd say it is actually more equivalent to blood than it is saliva. But you're right, it's not blood. Not technically anyways. Technically, it's slime. As in, the literal matter that slimes are made of. Because Slimes are generally depicted as amorphous creatures, it's generally believed that slimes are made entirely of the same basic substance, that substance being a slime that has a high surface tension or membrane. The slime is generally depicted as acidic to varying degrees, which serves the sole purpose of allowing them to digest food and, once large enough, replicate themselves. Slime Rancher deviates a bit from this by, instead of having Slimes replicate, having them instead expell excess slime not needed by the slime itself into hardened "plorts".

Long story short, they kind of are bleeding, but to them, blood is as easily replacable as drool is to us. To slimes, blood, saliva, and stomach acid are all one and the same.