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Name: Cardicracker (Giraffarursus dixonivagor)
Creator: OviraptorFan
Ancestor: Hearthead (Strutiotherium primis)
Habitat: Dixon Savanna, Dixon Tropical Scrub, Dixon-Darwin Rocky
Size: 4.8 meters long
Support: Endoskeleton (Chitin)
Diet: Herbivore (Fuzzpile, Cragmyr, Bangsticks, Coniflor, Pagoda Crystal, Grovecrystal, Signpost Crystamboo, Fruiting Grovecrystal, Crystal Brambley, Boreal Tubeplage, Feroak, Gecoba Tree, Bloodsap Melontree, Bristlepile)
Respiration: Active (Microlungs)
Thermoregulation: Endotherm (Feathers)
Reproduction: Sexual (Male and Female, Hard-Shelled Eggs)

When the argusraptor complex first appeared, their evolution led to the local extinction of several different species, with the Dixon Tropical Scrub and Savannah being hit hard in particular. In that region, all herbivores over a meter long were eaten into extinction, which left behind an open vacuum for species. While the ancestors of the disasterxata filled the ecological role of grazers, the role of larger browsers remained vacant. When some heartheads wandered into the region, they would fill in that particular niche since the role of predator was already taken by other species such as the argusraptors. This would lead to them rapidly increasing in size and eventually splitting off into a distinct taxon.

The cardicracker is a specialized browser, having grown over 4 times the size of its ancestor due to a lack of competition. At close to 5 meters long, the cardicracker is the largest descendant of the spotted sauceback by the late Bonoian. The much more stocky and muscular legs and the larger toe pads on each of its toes help the cardicracker support its massive size. The elongated tail serves as a good counter balance, as the cardicracker would otherwise topple over and fall flat on its face.

Their mandibles are short and blunt with minor serrations which are adapted to clip off bits of vegetation, acting similarly to a beak or the mandibles of a grasshopper. Their iguanodontid-like teeth located within their mouths help with processing the food they consume by chewing. Cardicrackers are very generalistic in what kinds of flora they consume, eating any parts of purple flora, crystal flora, and glass flora such as branches, leaves, and seeds. Being obligate herbivores, cardicrackers have an elongated "sauce" segment that contains a large gut, similarly to the double-lipped saucebacks of drake.

The cardicracker retains the same adaptations for sight as its ancestor, with the insides of its nostrils being lined with dark light-sensitive pigment, which detect light and shadow. The nostrils still remain in a keyhole shape, to improve the detail of what it can see while also improving its sense of smell compared to many other saucebacks. It still uses echolocation to navigate at night, since their large size means they’re relatively safe from the majority of their natural predators while the “image” it “sees” with it is much crisper than its eyesight in low-light environments. The feathers on their chest have increased in size and developed distinctive markings, allowing cardicrackers to identify other members of the same species as they wander around the landscape.

Cardicrackers are not very social creatures for a vast majority of the time, rarely interacting with one another as they forage though they are not territorial. The one major exception is when it comes to reproduction, where multiple cardicrackers in one area gather together to make one communal nest. Once the eggs are laid, one cardicracker will stay by the nest while the rest forage, with one returning to take the spot every 3-4 hours during the day. Due to their large size, they can’t directly lay on the nest so they simply lay beside it, adding more dirt or removing excess dirt to regulate the nest’s temperature. When night approaches, the cardicrackers stop switching, as their echolocation used to navigate the landscape at night could alert opportunity shrews of the nest’s location. The larvae of the cardicracker are helpless, naked, and legless and must be fed regurgitated food early in their lives.

While the cardicracker originally evolved in the Dixon Savanna and Dixon Tropical Scrub, they would also establish populations in the Dixon-Darwin Rocky biome due to the abundant vegetation. The species also helps spread some species of flora around through defecating their seeds. This has resulted in the cardicracker expanding the range of two flora species into new areas.

* Robust Arid Ferine is spread into the Dixon Tropical Scrub and Dixon Savanna
* Fruiting Grovecrystal is spread into the Dixon Tropical Scrub

In the Dixon-Darwin Rocky, however, the cardicracker is subject to bludbugs being a common pest. To try to relieve themselves of these little kruggs, cardicrackers will often rub against chameleon obsidishanks and employ the help of cleaner ukneuks.


The top view of a Cardicracker head.

Alright guys! Have this giant sauceback! I will say the last paragraph leaves a little bit to be desired, so feed back on that and on the species as a whole is appreciated!

This post has been edited by OviraptorFan: Jul 5 2021, 11:24 PM

Name: Ballichehara (Dolichopakhohippus magnalamii)
Creator: OviraptorFan
Ancestor: Grabnub ("Nubsaur" summa)
Habitat: Dixon Tropical Rainforest, Dixon Tropical Woodland
Size: 3 meters tall
Diet: Herbivore (Obsidiroot leaves, Carnossamer fruit and leaves, Hanging Olshkra, berries and leaves of Mainland Fuzzpalm saplings, fruits and leaves of Tropical Gecoba Tree saplings, leaves of Gargantuan Obsiditree saplings, Branching Qupe Tree fruits and leaves)
Respiration: Active (Lungs)
Thermoregulation: Endotherm
Reproduction: Sexual, Lays Hard-Shelled Eggs, Two Genders

Within the Dixon Tropical Rainforest and Dixon Tropical Woodland, the many species of large flora thrived due to no large browsers feeding on them. This ecological vacuum provided a lot of opportunities for any species able to take such a niche. This led to the local populations of grabnubs to expand their diets and become giants, becoming the ballichehara.

Due to its ancestral eye-hearing method proving very ineffective at actually picking up sound, the ballichehara had to make some important changes. The crests do still provide some help with hearing, as the sound passes through the skin of the crest and resonates with the thin bone core, which is detected by jaw bones adjacent to it, but they now better serve as display structures. The large nasal crest also helps with their sense of smell, allowing them to sniff out potential predators or other members of the same species. The two digits of the hand have become longer with large claws, helping them pull down branches to their mouths. Their two large upper front teeth help with shearing off bits of flora like leaves or berries for their back teeth to then grind up. As they feed on large trees like obsidiroots or mainland fuzzpalm saplings, they open up space for smaller flora like carnossamers to grow.

While the species no longer utilizes echolocation, they still make a wide variety of high frequency sounds to communicate with others of their kind. For protection, the ballichehara travel in small herds consisting of females and their young and one mature male. If not leading a herd, mature male ballichehara live solitary lives. Every spring, males will seek out herds and challenge the alpha male for mating rights. When this happens, both opponents size each other up by holding their heads high up to display their crests, with one of the two often backing down. If neither is willing to give up, however, the two males will then turn to physical violence to establish dominance. These physical fights can be brutal, with each combatant using its large claws to deliver deep wounds on their opponent. While one male directly killing the other is rare, the loser in these physical fights often leaves with torn crests and deep gashes on their chest and flanks, leaving them more vulnerable to predators.

Due to their large size, the ballichehara cannot dig burrows for them to lay their eggs. Instead, the herd will dig out shallow pits to lay their eggs, with the mothers guarding their nests from predators such as the stink shrew for two weeks. Once the young hatch, they take about one and a half years to reach maturity, with females typically staying with the herd they were born in for their whole lives while males are forced out to live a solitary existence. On average, the ballichehara can live for around 20-30 years, with the females usually breeding about 6-10 times in their lifetime(males can potentially breed every year after their second birthday for the rest of their lives).

The ballichehara thrives in the Dixon Tropical Rainforest and Dixon Tropical Woodland due to a lack of competition, replacing their ancestor in these areas. The species was unable to, however, establish permanent populations in the Javen Temperate Rainforest due to the presence of other large browsers such as the westward haglox in the region. This resulted in the grabnub only surviving in the Javen Temperate Rainforest while dying out elsewhere.

Here is my first dweller boi! Do give your thoughts on it!

Name: Gnawsferatu (Alethotripus urgeatamolaris)
Creator: OviraptorFan
Ancestor: Grabnub (Nubsaur summa)
Habitat: Javen Temperate Rainforest, Javen Tropical Rainforest
Size: 1 meter tall
Support: Endoskeleton (Bone)
Diet: Herbivore (Clusterblades, Obsidian Shrub leaves, Olshkra, Osziza, Tusovinda leaves and seeds, berries and leaves of Obsidiroot saplings, Carnossamer, Twin-Tail Orbibom, Hydrabowl, leaves and berries of Mainland Fuzzpalm saplings, leaves and fruit of Tropical Gecoba Tree saplings, Crystal Swordgrass, leaves of Gargantuan Obsiditree saplings, leaves and fruit of Branching Qupe Tree saplings)
Respiration: Active (Lungs)
Thermoregulation: Endotherm
Reproduction: Sexual, Lays Hard-Shelled Eggs in burrows, Two Genders

Within the Javen Temperate Rainforest, the native population of grabnubs began to experience trouble. This was due to the rise of obsiditrees, whose immense size and black leaves covered much of the forest floor in shadow. This resulted in the grabnubs' patterns, once great for camouflage, stick out like a sore thumb to predators. Alongside the rise of competitors such as the hikahoe, the increased predation forced the remaining grabnub population to adapt. The changes this population would make would not only be in coloration, but also in their diet and lifestyle. This would lead to the population becoming a completely new species, known as the gnawsferatu. As the species evolved, they would end up replacing the remaining populations of grabnub, leading to the extinction of their ancestor.

Due to its ancestral eye-hearing method proving very ineffective at actually picking up sound, the gnawsferatu had to make some important changes. In a similar fashion to the ballichehara, the crests work by passing sound through their skin which then resonates with the thin bone core, afterwards being detected by jaw bones adjacent to it. While the crests do help with hearing, with the nasal crest also helping with their scent of smell, their primary function now is for display. The two digits on their hands have developed large claws, helping with digging up the roots of certain flora such as carnossamers and crystal swordgrass. Unlike their ancestor or their close relative, the gnawsferatu will feed on tough flora species such as hydrabowls and the osziza. To properly handle this food, their front teeth now continuously grow in a similar mannar to rodents so they do not wear down from constant use. The gnawsferatu uses these teeth to snip off bits of vegetation, with their larger molars then helping to grind up the food. The large claws and big teeth can also help protect the gnawsferatu from predators such as the terrorbeak, along with another defense. Unlike their ancestor or close relative, two of the three toes on the rear-most leg are permanently raised off the ground, with the claws having become longer and sharp. This adaptation is present due to the fact the gnawsferatu will briefly lean forward and lift up its tail leg to violently kick at any predators coming at them from behind.

While the species no longer utilizes echolocation, they still make a wide variety of high frequency sounds to communicate with others of their kind. For protection, the gnawsferatu travels in small herds consisting of females and their young and one mature male. If not leading a herd, mature male gnawsferatu live in small bachelor herds consisting entirely of males. Every spring, males will seek out herds and challenge the alpha male for mating rights. When this happens, both opponents size each other up by holding their heads high up to display their crests, with one of the two often backing down. If neither is willing to give up, however, the two males will then turn to what can be best described as a series of “attack hugs''. This is when both combatants would turn towards each other and charge with their arms outstretched, colliding with their opponent and trying to use their arms to grapple the other male and tossing them to the ground. While males often get scratched up or bruised from these “attack hugs”, serious wounds are extremely rare.

In a similar fashion to their ancestors, the gnawsferatu lays hard shelled eggs within a burrow, though the species does it in a very unique way. When a herd is ready to lay their eggs, they will dig a large communal den, where each female will then enter to lay their eggs before exiting. After this, the alpha male will then enter the burrow and stay at the entrance, guarding all of the eggs from potential nest raiders. When the male gets hungry, a female will briefly take his place while the male gnawsferatu gets food for itself. This process continues even after the young hatch two weeks later, although in a slightly different manner. When the young hatch, the male will let a single female in at a time to feed her young. This is to prevent the burrow from getting crowded and risking some of the youngsters being accidentally trampled. This continues for another month and a half until the babies are old and large enough to keep pace with the herd. In total, a gnawsferatu takes one full year to reach sexual maturity with both the females and males departing from the herd. For females, they will try to find another herd to join or a male gnawsferatu to start a new herd. Males, on the other hand, will often try to find a female to start a herd with or a different herd to challenge the alpha male for breeding rights. On average, the species can live to be around 15-20 years old, with the females usually breeding about 4-6 times in their lifetime(males can potentially breed every year after their first birthday for the rest of their lives).

Due to their generalistic diet of flora, the gnawsferatu is an important seed disperser since a lot of seeds and spores can make it past their digestive systems intact. This has allowed them to spread several different species of flora and one species of flora to new biomes.

* Carnossamer is spread into the Javen Tropical Rainforest
* Hydrabowl is spread into the Javen Tropical Rainforest
* Mainland Fuzzpalm is spread into the Javen Tropical Rainforest
* Twin-Tail Orbibom is spread into the Javen Tropical Rainforest
* Carnofern Flugwurm is spread into the Javen Tropical Rainforest due to the spread of the Carnossamer, which it pollinates.


And there we have it, the Gnawsferatu has now replaced the last of the Grabnub! What do you guys think of this second species of dweller?

This post has been edited by OviraptorFan: Jul 5 2021, 11:34 PM

Name: Shadow Buttpiper (Pipplentus cryptis)
Creator: OviraptorFan
Ancestor: Buttpiper (Pipplentus piperus)
Habitat: Javen Temperate Rainforest, Javen Tropical Rainforest
Size: 40 centimeters long
Diet: Herbivore (Marbleflora, Pioneeroots, Tusovinda, Twin-Tail Orbibom, Obsidian Shrub leaves, Clusterblades)
Respiration: Active (Lungs)
Thermoregulation: Endotherm
Reproduction: Sexual, Live Birth, Two Genders

With the spread of the obsiditrees, the large amounts of shadow made the buttpiper’s patterns stand out like a sore thumb. This would result in them experiencing high predation rates, forcing them to adapt or die. This led to the evolution of the shadow buttpiper, which would replace the Javen Temperate Rainforest buttpiper population.

The shadow buttpiper primarily relies upon its camouflage to hide from predators, with even their “butt-sacks” having become a light purple to better camouflage with the abundant foliage. When the “butt-sacks” are inflated, however, the stretching thins the skin and density of surface pigments which then makes the bright green underneath from their blood more visible. This, combined with the various vocalizations the shadow buttpiper produces from these sacks, are how individuals communicate with one another.

Much like their ancestors, the shadow buttpiper are social fauna, traveling in small groups for protection. When feeding, they rely on their keen senses of hearing and eyesight to spot potential predators, releasing an alarm signal that tells the rest of the group to flee if they sense danger. When backed into a corner, a shadow buttpiper may try to honk as it can in order to scare off a potential threat, though it usually is less effective for larger carnivores.

Much like their ancient ancestors, the shadow buttpiper gives birth to large litters of small offspring. The young will follow the adults around for around 10 months before reaching sexual maturity.


Alright guys, tried my best to give this guy a good amount of information, considering its ancestors have relatively short descriptions. Do give your thoughts on it though!

This post has been edited by OviraptorFan: May 30 2021, 02:26 PM

Burrowyrm (Densterrae hyacinthocutis)
Creator: Nergali
Ancestor: Squat Limbless
Habitat: Vivus Taiga, Vivus Temperate Rainforest, Darwin Temperate Rainforest, Darwin Temperate Woodland
Size: 40 cm long
Support: Endoskeleton (Bone)
Diet: Carnivore (Minikruggs, Silkruggs, Whiskrugg, Grovecrystal Krugg, Vermees, Xenobees, Xenowasps, Dartirs, Sapworms, Neuks, Exoskelesor, Teacup Saucebacks, Pikashrew, Kehaida, Chasing Twintail, Scrambled Shrew, Barkback, Jongfoll, Umbral Sphinx, Gryphler)
Respiration: Active (Lungs)
Thermoregulation: Mesotherm
Reproduction: Sexual, Two Genders, Viviparous

Splitting from its ancestor, the burrowyrms have spread deeper inland into Vivus and have even gained ground in Darwin itself. While their ancestors along the cold, polar coasts of the continent continue to dwindle in population, the burrowyrms have instead gone on to thrive, having evolved better adaptations to the cold that serve to compliment their semi-subterranean lifestyle. Filling out the niche of a small predator, they help to keep the populations of various small fauna in check, and are in turn kept in check by various larger predators.

One of the most prominent features this species has evolved is their bright colors, a highly visible trait which they utilize to warn off potential predators. The reason for this of their mildly venomous bite which has recently evolved. This poison does not involve the usage of poison sacs connected to fangs and is instead produced by the salivary glands and coats the teeth. While said poison is deadly to small prey items, paralyzing them outright, it can still cause a painful burning sensation for anything larger than 20 centimeters long. Another noticeable feature is the numerous thorn-like spines that form rows along their backs. Anchored in the chainmail-like formation of bony nodules located just beneath the skin, each spine possesses several muscular attachments, allowing them to be flexed about to a limited degree. While individually this achieves little, when done en masse this allows better digging through both leaf litter and soil, especially with the aid of their spade-like specialized tooth.

For most of the colder parts of the year, the habitats that burrowyrms call home are distinctly barren of them. This is because during these times they will burrow several meters underground in small hollows they have dug out, sleeping away the winter in a state of brumation. They await for the return of warm weather, for only that - or prolonged exposure to the body heat of another organism - is what is capable of awakening them from their slumber. In fact, so deep is this state of dormancy that they remain utterly motionless towards most external stimuli, and will not even react to being dug up, at least not immediately so. Once spring has returned, however, they will begin to eagerly return to the surface and gorge themselves on a wide variety of small prey items, utilizing their venomous saliva to incapacitate them so that they may be crushed in their jaws and then devoured.

Besides the seasonal gorging that burrowyrms undergo with the arrival of warm weather, so too do they seek out mates. Intertwining themselves with one another, a mated pair will remain in such a position for hours at a time, after which they will go their separate ways. Burrowyrms choose a new partner every year over their ten year lifespan, and each mating typically produces several tiny squirming offspring for whom the parents show no parental care. The young will need to rely on their venomous saliva and capacity to burrow if they are to survive the numerous predators that would otherwise make a quick meal of such small offspring.

Because of the change in their diet towards small, mouth-sized prey, the size of several of their fangs - outside the large, modified one - have reduced significantly, to the point where they are no longer exposed when their mouths are closed, much like the majority of their teeth.

This post has been edited by Nergali: Jul 6 2021, 03:31 AM

Dinotuga (Gallichelys currentis)

Creator: TheBigDeepCheatsy
Ancestor: Flutuga
Habitat: North Darwin Tropical Scrub, Darwin Tropical Woodland, Darwin Tropical Rainforest, Darwin Temperate Rainforest, Darwin Temperate Woodland, Vivus Temperate Rainforest, Darwin Chaparral
Size: 70 cm Long
Support: Endoskeleton (Bone)
Diet: Omnivore (Vermees, Minikruggs, Silkruggs, Teacup Saucebacks, Dartirs, Sapworms, Bloodback, Umbral Sphinx, Dungshell Fraboo, Corkscrew Krugg, Perfume Krugg, Whiskrugg, Grub Krugg, Communal Janit, Lazarus Soriparasite, Smirking Soriparasite, Eggslurping Sorite, Barkback, Plumottle, Shrubrattus, Chasing Twintail, Gryphler, Brighteyes larvae, Sunstalks, Marbleflora, Supershrooms, Sapshrooms, Tamed Berry Arbourshrooms, Puffgrass, Tropical Puffgrass, Berry Arbourshroom, Fibreflora shoots, Woodland Grovecrystal shoots, Tropical Crystamboo shoots, Caprystal shoots, Gargantuan Obsiditree shoots, Quibil berries, Feroak fruits, Fruiting Grovecrystal fruits, Scrubland Tubeplage fruits, Fuzzpile fruits, Branching Qupe Tree fruits and shoots, Cup Qupe fruits and shoots, Quhft fruits and shoots, Scrubland Quhft fruits and shoots, Tropical Gecoba Tree fruits), Scavenger
Respiration: Active (Lungs)
Thermoregulation: Heterotherm (Basking, Heat from Muscle Activity)
Reproduction: Sexual, Leathery-Shelled Eggs, Male and Female

The dinotuga split from the flutuga and moved out from the crowded Biocat-Huggs River System into the eastern region of the Dixon-Darwin supercontinent. While it already had basic means of handling life on land, its ancestor still depended on water and it was not exactly equipped to handle some of the faster and more powerful predators living on land. To deal with this, the dinotuga had to make several quick evolutionary changes. The first of these is its skin taking on varying hues to help it blend in better with its environment. For those living in heavily wooded areas, they take on different shades of dark blue and indigo, which provides camouflage amongst the forest underbrush; while those living in scrublands have a golden color along with purple spots to provide camouflage in the golden dirt and purple flora.

In addition to its camouflaging skin, the dinotuga has evolved bipedal movement. However, because of it shifting to bipedal movement in a relatively short span of time, it had to start out as a facultative biped. Being a facultative biped means that it sits and walks on all fours, but it can stand up and run on two legs. This comes in handy when keeping an eye out for potential predators and being capable of better endurance running than its ancestor could. In order to make this happen, the dinotuga lost all the shell armor, except for a pair of plates protecting its neck, on the front half of its body to reduce the weight bearing down on its front limbs.

Further helping it with watching out for predators is the dinotuga's enhanced vision that gives it a better chance at seeing predators before they see it. Another anti-predator adaptation it has are that the remaining spikes on its lower half have elongated, which triples not only as a means of keeping the dinotuga from overheating in the obsidian forest or the sun beating down on the scrublands, but also putting more weight on the rear, which helps further maintains its bipedal stance. The dinotuga has also evolved into a heterotherm that basks and uses its muscle movement to help with its body temperature; while it does need to eat more than the ancestral flutuga, the dinotuga can go into torpor when it gets too cold or when food is less available.

Because it does not have a steady supply of water to lay its eggs in, the dinotuga's eggs have become encased in a leathery shell that helps retain water and protect the developing young from the outside world. Not only have its eggs changed, but the dinotuga's reproductive rituals have advanced to a degree as well. While male dinotugas will still butt-fence to some degree, they also include bouts of wrestling into their fighting. This wrestling is specifically wherein the males will stand up on two legs and use their front limbs to push against each other until one of them falls to the ground. The loser is driven out, while the winner mates with the desired female. After mating, the female will dig a pit in the dirt and lay her eggs in it then leave the male to raise the eggs. Similar to Terran snakes, the eggs will be slightly wet and stick together into a clump of eggs as they dry. Next, the male uses its mouth and front limbs to gather plenty of leaf litter, grasses, sticks, and mulch that it uses to form a large mound that keeps the eggs warm in order to allow them to develop safely. The male maintains vigilance over this mound by chasing off potential predators that get too close to the mound and changing the amount of litter to keep a stable temperature to ensure that reduces the likelihood of losing any eggs in the clutch. The young hatchlings are already well-developed, resembling their parents, except with an egg-tooth that helps them hatch and a set of stubbier spines that will grow with time. Once these hatchlings burrow out of the mound with a little help from the father, the father stops guarding them as dinotugas have no parental instincts to care for their young beyond hatching. Fortunately, the young are super-precocial, meaning they can already hunt and run on their own in a matter of minutes. This makes it easier for the adults to reproduce a lot, which means that dinotugas are a fairly common carpazoan that can provide food to all kinds of other organisms such as argusraptors, slitherworms, shrogs, and flunejaws.

Another interesting thing about dinotugas is the fact that they do feed on soriparasites and will even pick them off from larger fauna like the hornfaces and phlocks, which helps rid them of parasites; sometimes these larger fauna will even seek out dinotugas to help pick them off. Ironically, dinotugas will sometimes mooch tamed berry arbourshrooms from darth shroom herders when the opportunity arises. Lastly, in terms of diet, it still feeds 50/50 on fauna and flora, just like its ancestor.

Name: Passarurso (Diatrymamimus rostroutaduratis)
Creator: OviraptorFan
Ancestor: Terrorbeak (Diatrymamimus wilsonus)
Habitat: Javen Temperate Rainforest, Dixon Tropical Rainforest, Dixon Tropical Woodland, Javen Tropical Rainforest, Javen Tropical Woodland
Size: 2.8 meters long
Support: Endoskeleton (Jointed Wood)
Diet: Omnivore (Tropical Gecoba Tree fruit, Twin-Tail Orbibom bulbs, Frayedspikes stems and fruit, Mainland Fuzzpalm berries, Tusovinda stems and fruit, Carnossamer fruit and roots, Crystal Swordgrass roots, Fuzzpile berries, Woodland Grovecrystal roots, Rifamboo roots, Signpost Crystamboo roots, Crystamble roots, Scrubland Tubeplage fruit, Tropical Crystamboo roots, Berry Arbourshroom, Crown-of-Thorns Plyent, Pixy Plyent, Tarawaka , Rainforest Buttpiper, Harnejak, Honey Toadtuga, Umbral Sphinx, Chasing Twintail, Tilecorn, Interbiat, Opportunity Shrew, Xatadeega, Twinpaw Twintail, Brighteyes, Montemsnapper, Hikahoe, Tileobsidian juveniles, Spotted Sauceback, Robynsnapper, Scrub Barkback, Gnawsferatu, Shadow Buttpiper, Ballichehara, Disasterxata juveniles), Scavenger
Respiration: Active (Lungs)
Thermoregulation: Endotherm
Reproduction: Sexual, Live Birth, Two Genders

Overtime, populations of terrorbeak began to feel competition from themselves and their close relatives such as the terronooga. To deal with this, some groups began to take advantage of the abundant fruit produced by the tropical gecoba tree since they were relatively easy to find and consume. As they adapt to get energy from this food source, they would also devour other bits of flora around them(primarily from fruits, berries, and root systems). These would eventually lead to them splitting off into a new omnivorous species known as the passarurso.

The first noticeable difference between the passarurso and its ancestor is its massive head. This allows the passarurso to consume larger amounts of fruit at once, since they lack the ability to chew their food and thus must swallow fruit and berries whole. The large head also means more powerful jaws, allowing it to tackle large herbivores when they do feed on meat, as they are not dedicated herbivores and thus need to supplement their diet with regular amounts of protein. When fruits and berries become scarce, the species will dig out roots and tubers using their feet. To cope with this more varied diet, the teeth of the passarurso have undergone some changes as well. The front teeth have become more rounded, which helps to grab things like fruit or roots, while the back teeth have remained sharp to slice through flesh.

In a similar fashion to their ancestors, the passarurso has an established territory, which is typically in areas where there are high amounts of fruits and berries that they jealously guard from others of their kind. During the mating season, males and females will pair up to breed, with the male then forcing the females out of his territory since he does not take part in rearing the young. A female will give birth to 1-2 offspring, protecting them until they are around 2 years old. Much like their ancestors, the passarurso is able to vomit up the contents of their stomach as a projectile attack though it serves no purpose for the adults. This ability to make projectile vomit is, however, very important for the youngsters as it can protect them from potential predators such as terrorbeaks or terronoogas.


Okay, here is the official post! I accidentally posted it prematurely before when it was not finished so please ignore that one. Do give your thoughts on the species!

This post has been edited by OviraptorFan: Jun 11 2021, 11:42 AM

Cloudgrump (Volantigleba megavesica)
Creator: Disgustedorite
Ancestor: Cloudgrass
Habitat: Atmosphere (Troposphere)
Size: 20 cm thick individual, up to 50 meter wide colony
Support: Cell Wall (Cellulose), Flotation Sac (Hydrogen)
Diet: Photosynthesis, Aeroplanktivore (<2 cm)
Respiration: Passive (Stomata)
Thermoregulation: Ectotherm
Reproduction: Sexual (Spores)

The cloudgrump split from its ancestor. It is the result of ordinary division going wrong, producing huge clonal colonies. Initially disorderly, bilateral symmetry was rapidly lost and the colony members produce an ever-growing mass. Pressure from the hydrogen within forces the colony into a more spherical shape, gradually creating a massive, hollow balloon. The outer layer of living tissue is 20 cm thick, which is usually far, far too thick to support a ballont (aerial balloon-like organism); however, most of this is occupied by the ancestral spongy tissue, which is lightweight and serves to allow holes to be quickly patched and healed without the contents of the balloon blasting outwards. The outermost layer--the skin--is no thicker than one millimeter, though slightly thicker surface tubers may be scattered throughout. Attached to the skin is a mosaic of downfeather-like leaves and hanging aeroplanktivorous tendrils, the former most concentrated on the top of the superorganism and the latter most concentrated on the bottom. The downfeather-like structure of the leaves serves both to increase surface area and to collect any moisture at all, whether from the air or from the cloud the huge plant rests in.

Image Caption: Structure of Outer Layer


As is the case with other contemporary flying flora, metals from captured particles of dust and dirt are incorporated into the cloudgrump’s skin, which is helpful in preventing hydrogen from leaking out between its molecules. Tough cellulose fibers also make its skin very resistant to tearing, so that it does not pop if it is caught in a storm or collides with another cloudgrump, though it most certainly still will if it collides with a mountain. It typically floats at a height between two and five kilometers up in the air, with older, bigger grumps generally floating the highest. Cloudgrump populations are at their biggest and healthiest along the equator--the tropical rainforests that exist along the same region get their namesake rain from the intertropical convergence zone, or doldrums, which is constantly warm and wet, and the cloudgrump can only grow when it has access to clouds, going almost completely dormant except for its collection of aeroplankton the rest of the time. The largest colonies will sometimes be mostly dormant except for a small portion which is touching a small cloud, collecting and distributing water for later use.

Cloudgrumps need surprisingly little water for their size due to them being mostly hollow. All of their water is contained in their outer layer and their interior is incredibly dry. This is because even a small contamination of water vapor, such as 0.1%, inside the hydrogen sac will cause the grump to sink. While one would think this would make grumps prone to exploding in a spectacular ball of flame, this is not the case. While spectacular explosions most certainly do occur, especially in the drier parts of the sky, the most common cause of explosions is lightning strikes, and a healthy cloudgrump is more than equipped to handle these. As mentioned before, its skin contains metals which prevent hydrogen from leaking. However, these are also used to form a passive lightning defense system. Instead of passing through the hydrogen sac, which is protected by cellulose which has low conductivity, the electricity is directed along the exterior and down to the bottom of the organism by the far more conductive metal component, where it then exits out a hanging tendril and strikes the ground far below. Most cloudgrumps are struck by lightning thousands of times in their lives without suffering significant injury, but can still eventually die from one if they are struck while dormant and dehydrated; in this case, there will be no moisture to suppress the fire, so it will rapidly reach their interior and cause a nearly instantaneous explosion. Large grumps exploding can devastate the ecosystems below them by causing a massive wildfire, but most grumps which reside in dry environments where this is possible are very small and their burning chunks only cause a fire as big as one the lightning strike could cause on its own. The cloudgrump lacks the ability to actively move towards humidity, instead relying on clouds to form nearby to it as it drifts in the wind.

Like its ancestor, the cloudgrump reproduces using spores. Unlike its ancestor, it could be broadly described as viviparous. When it collects spores from other grumps, it holds onto them after fertilization, passing cloudbubble cryoutines to the developing embryo. The embryo has a bubble of its own from very early on but struggles to float with it, so the parent provides it with the nutrients it needs to grow long stiff fibers. Though the embryo within is just a few millimeters across, the fibers can be as much as 10 centimeters in length at birth. The fibers are transparent, stiff, and hydrophobic. When released, the juvenile, called a bubbling, drifts downwards and and rolls on the ground or the surface of the ocean and is occasionally swept in the air, all the while collecting water from sea or rain which splashes between the fibers before it rolls off. If they are not gobbled up by ground-dwelling fauna, bubblings increase in size until their hydrogen sac is big enough for them to float more than they roll, at which point they start dividing into a clonal colony to form a young grump. Young grumps are often lopsided, not yet big enough to be forced into their round adult shape. The fibers remain until the grump is big enough that it never falls, at which point they are absorbed for nutrients. Because its ability to divide has been repurposed to form clonal colonies, the cloudgrump can no longer produce independent individuals asexually. The exact amount of time it takes for a cloudgrump colony to reach full size varies, but in the most ideal naturally possible conditions (that is, literal constant humidity and access to a never-ending supply of clouds and aeroplankton), it can shockingly reach full size in only 50 years due to its incredibly low density.

==Etymology==
The “grump” in “cloudgrump” is a combination of “grass” and “lump”. This is because of its evolutionary origin as lumps of cloudgrass that failed to divide properly. It was chosen over other names to be humorous.

Twineshrog (Lutrasorex textor)
Creator: Disgustedorite
Ancestor: Seashrog
Habitat: Dixon-Darwin Boreal, Dixon-Darwin Rocky, Dixon-Darwin High Grassland, Dixon Savanna, Dixon Tropical Scrub, Dixon Tropical Woodland, Javen Tropical Woodland, Javen Tropical Scrub, Darwin Savanna, North Darwin Tropical Scrub, North Darwin Tropical Woodland
Size: 3 meters long
Support: Endoskeleton (Bone)
Diet: Omnivore (Ouranocorn, Westward Haglox, Mudplower, Shroom Herder, Hornboss, Desert Tilecorn, Disasterxata, Cardicracker, Ballichehara, Gnawsferatu, Barkbuck, Cryptic Hornface, Dualtrunk, Supershrooms, Sapshrooms, Berry Arbourshroom, Tamed Berry Arbourshrooms, Grovecrystal, Crystal Brambley, Signpost Crystamboo, Rifamboo, Sklithraderm, Boreal Tubeplage fruit, Feroak berries, Cragmyr berries, Robust Arid Ferine berries, Gecoba Tree fruit, Scrubland Quhft fruit, Bristlepile berries, Fuzzpile berries, Carnossamer fruit, Mainland Fuzzpalm berries, Tropical Gecoba Tree fruit, Scrubland Tubeplage fruit, Fruiting Grovecrystal fruit, Goliath Flunejaw, Long-Tailed Flunejaw, Argusraptor Complex, Tigmadar)
Respiration: Active (Lungs)
Thermoregulation: Endotherm (Fur)
Reproduction: Sexual (Male and Female, Placental, Pouch and Milk)

The twineshrog split from its ancestor and moved inland, its range overlapping with the tyrannical Argusraptor complex. The argusraptors were a nightmare for any other creature to compete with due to their hyper-adaptability; the twineshrog, however, manages to do so as a result of its own hyper-adaptability, powered not by genetic flexibility, but by high intelligence and a very important invention.

==Twine==
Twine is an extremely versatile tool, and one which is very rare to see in the animal kingdom on Earth. On Sagan 4, twine has only been invented three times before, each time by a sophont. It is a tool that one would assume is far too advanced for an ordinary animal to invent. However, while shrogs are far from sophont, they’re far from ordinary either; the twineshrog in particular can be likened to a Terran orangutan, being a highly intelligent, solitary creature with exceptional instinctive tendencies towards tool use. The competitive scene created by the Argusraptor complex pushed the potential of the twineshrog further, which is directly responsible for its invention of twine. The twine-making behavior is technically learned, but it has its roots in natural behavior; it is a modification of flora-weaving behavior which is present in even the earliest tamjacks, which a few other shrogs have also expanded on with using naturally rope-like plant parts. The twineshrog differs in that it constructs twine directly, thus it does not need to spend time searching for pieces which are the right length and strength. The fibers used for twine construction are primarily the bast (or phloem) fibers of purple and black flora, usually either gathered from herbaceous plants in their environment or removed from the bark of logs. It uses this rare tool in nest construction and to hunt large prey--specifically, creatures which argusraptors would struggle to hunt successfully.

===Trapping===
Usually, large predators will target weak prey, such as the sick, elderly, or juvenile. The twineshrog, however, targets large, healthy individuals. It will memorize the patterns of herbivore migration and lay traps along their walking paths, or beneath the trees they feed from. These usually consist of twine stretched over a pit the Twineshrog has dug out, often filled with sharp crystals or stakes, then covered over with dirt and leaves to conceal it. Though weak prey is still sometimes caught, large healthy individuals will be closer to the leading edge of herds, causing them to be caught more often. Some large creatures, such as hagloxes and cardicrackers, can be caught without a particularly massive trap; a bad fall will shatter their limbs, leaving them unable to move. The Twineshrog has been known to eat large disabled prey like this alive, and in the case of a Westward Haglox in particular it will drive a spear through the base of the tail first to paralyze it and prevent it from striking with its thagomizer. Large kills like this can sometimes attract other twineshrogs, and it is more tolerant of its own kind in this situation because the kill is often too large for just one to consume. It will also kill and eat its competitors, such as argusraptors and flunejaws, and if no large prey is available it will also readily eat smaller fauna and test unfamiliar food sources. Though a prominent predator, the twineshrog remains an omnivore, consuming various shrooms, crystal flora, and fruit.

===Nests and Tools===
Like all shrogs and many non-shrog tamjacks, the twineshrog is an instinctive nest-builder capable of using experience and problem-solving to construct sturdy, complex nests. Its namesake invention, twine, allows it to build nests that make those made by its ancestor look like they’re made of paper mache in comparison. While glue-like berries were effective at plugging holes and waterproofing, they were also extremely edible and rotted quickly when not maintained. Twine made of plant fibers, on the other hand, while not as great for waterproofing, is made mostly of cellulose, which is far more difficult for pest organisms to digest. Twine is also considerably stronger and more versatile, and its lack of waterproofing capabilities is made up for by binding wood together so tightly that water cannot easily seep through anyway. The nests are generally dome-shaped and consist of ribs similar to those of their ancestor’s boat nests with the gaps filled in by horizontal logs or planks. Twineshrog nests may also have a basement, but as it is not a natural digger, this is accomplished with tools. Nests commonly have woodyshrooms growing on them in the wooded parts of the twineshrog’s range, despite its best efforts to remove them as they sprout. In the drier open parts of its range, when a wildfire approaches their nests, twineshrogs may defend them by clearing away flora so that there is nothing in between the fire and the nest to burn.

Twineshrog tools are some of the most complex of any shrog. In addition to its use in constructing nests and traps, twine can also be used to attach rocks and bones to sticks to make better spears and variants thereof. Like its ancestor, the twineshrog struggles to use small tools and weaponry, however by tying them to a stick it can use them like it’s a spear. The most common is the stone-tipped spear, an effective variation of the spear which can be used repeatedly or on tougher prey without the tip breaking off. Following this is a tool analogous to a digging bar, where a small flat rock is attached to the end of a stick. This is the tool most often used for digging traps and basements, as it can rip through roots and hard dirt that the shrog would never be able to move with its claws. Rather than using a tool to remove the loosened dirt, the twineshrog will fling it out using its tail. A less common but not rare tool is something best described as a sword on a stick--a long flat stone with a sharp edge tied to a spear, which is used in territory conflicts in regions with less food available. The instinctive spear-thrusting motion is used to slice enemies from afar, rather than stab, disabling them by cutting an important muscle or, when used by an especially skilled twineshrog, sometimes even disemboweling them. This can be more effective than stabbing, as twineshrogs will instinctively attempt to prevent puncture wounds into their vital organs but may not necessarily be able to predict and react appropriately to slicing. However, these weapons do not last forever. Twineshrogs do not have the ability to figure out how to create good rocks for slicing and all the stones they use are ones they simply found that happened to be the right shape, so sword-spears will never take over as their dominant intraspecific weaponry.

The twineshrog's inability to sharpen rocks might come as a surprise, given that it and its relatives readily sharpen sticks and carve up logs. This is because of a distinction in what exactly a shrog has to do in order to accomplish these tasks. Most shrogs have a blade on their tail which is used to cut wood. This is a natural part of their body, a built-in tool of sorts, much like a claw or a tooth. This is quite unlike, say, a Terran ape, which must use an artificial constructed tool such as an ax or a saw to accomplish the same task. To the average shrog, modifying an object is something one does with part of their body. Meanwhile, no part of a shrog's body can modify a rock. The hardest material available on their body is their teeth, which would shatter or wear away if they even tried to use them on stone. While it would be mechanically easy for a twineshrog to do what a human would intuitively do, that is to sharpen the rock with another rock, it never even occurs to them to do so. It is true, of course, that the twineshrog does have the ability to use two objects together, such as tying a rock to a stick to make a better spear. However, while a human might call this a modification, to a shrog, modification and combination are two unrelated concepts. The twine does not edit the stick or the rock nor do the stick and the rock edit one another, but putting them together makes something entirely new, exactly like putting together logs to create a nest. Both of these concepts are also distinguished from using a tool to dig--though the twineshrog would be considered by a human to be modifying the environment with a constructed digging bar, which one would expect to lead into using tools to chip or sharpen rocks, to a shrog this is a variation on yet another unrelated concept. From the twineshrog's point of view, it is "getting" the dirt that's in its way by attacking and loosening it, much like a successful attack on a rival or a prey item. Thus, it does not occur to them to use tools to modify rocks either.

==Other Behavior==
===Territory===
Every individual twineshrog has a set territory, and though twineshrogs are solitary hunters, their territories may overlap considerably if there is a lot of food available. In regions less rich in food, however, territories have strict borders and conflict is common. However, the twineshrog is only naturally uncomfortable with its own kind, not completely intolerant except out of necessity, more like, say, a cat than, say, a badger. A male’s territory will often be very large and overlap with the territories of many females, and the females will allow this because their instincts to reproduce usually overpower their discomfort. When wounded in territorial conflict, mating accident, or by other species, twineshrogs are able to recover and heal, keeping the wounds clean by licking them and avoiding exposure to dirt or irritating flora.

===Reproduction===
Like its ancestor, the twineshrog lacks a mating season, but it has also lost its natural monogamy because it no longer serves any purpose. It has traded its ancestor’s relatively rapid breeding for a slower breeding rate that better fits the capacity of its natural habitat, though females are still almost always pregnant, as whenever they aren’t pregnant or nursing, they will regularly mate with the male whose territory overlaps theirs. Gestation lasts 6 months, meaning that a female will be unreceptive for over half the year, which is why males have such large territories--so they have access to many females and can mate as often as possible. They have only 1-2 offspring per mating, and they stay in their mother’s pouch until they become too large, which happens very quickly for twins but may take as long as 6 months if there is only a single offspring.

====Rogue Reproductive Behavior====
For weaker males with smaller territories, mating regularly is not possible, so they may use their natural problem-solving abilities to find alternative solutions to boost their reproductive success. One is to not have a set territory at all, but instead to wander the borders of other males’ territory, mating with receptive females as they encounter them--effectively “stealing” them from other males. These wandering males generally lack a set nest, sleeping in thickets or building well-hidden makeshift dens along their path and stealing food from traps set by other twineshrogs.

Another solution, used occasionally where food is more plentiful, is for the male to stay in one place but abduct any female which enters his territory. With their tails broken or sawed off and their fangs pulled out, these females cannot fight or escape and become completely dependent on their captor to feed and shelter them. To prevent their scent from deterring other females from entering his territory, the male will not allow his captive harem to free roam, so he may tie the females to his nest or to new nests made especially for them using a sort of thick twine--or rope--harness and leash. The general logical process that leads to the use of a harness is that tying the logs that make up a nest together prevents them from rolling (or "wandering") away, therefore a female can also be prevented from wandering off by tying her to a nest. Though dexterous enough to untie knots, shrogs in general are not as flexible as they look and they cannot reach a knot if it sits between their shoulder blades, so the females cannot easily free themselves.

=====Fate of Harems=====
If the male dies, his harem will usually starve to death, but very rarely a harem female will escape by chewing through the ropes binding her and manage to survive out in the wilderness alone, using crafted tools to replace the functions of her lost tail and fangs. Such surviving escaped females are very rare, popping up about once every few decades across the species' entire population, as for them to survive many factors must come together: they must have not fully resigned to their fate to be able to escape in the first place, they must already be above average at crafting and using tools to be able to find workarounds for their missing tails before they starve to death, and they must be able or willing to steal building material from other shrogs in order to make a sturdy shelter. The latter has more working in its favor than one might expect; as twineshrog nest-making is based on an instinctive blueprint, nearly any piece taken from one nest can be used to construct another.

On rare occasions, some of these females, and twineshrogs in general which have lost their tails in some kind of accident or conflict, may replace their tails in a more literal sense; being mostly bone and keratin with very little non-mineralized living material, shrog tail saws sometimes fail to rot away completely and remain structurally sturdy long after their owners died, so it is possible for a dead, dry shrog tail to be used as a tool or even attached to the tailless individual's tail stump directly like a prosthetic using twine. This is possible because tool use is the act of instinctively using objects as an extension of one's body; these twineshrogs know the tail is not really their original tail, but as they already know what a tail saw does, to use it in its place would seem intuitive to them, even though it requires some practice.

==Behavioral Limitations==
The twineshrog undeniably has what one might call "sophont aesthetic", in that it looks like a sophont when it is not. It is not the first or only shrog to fall into the "sophont aesthetic" category (the drakeshrog famously managed to fool aliens which had been watching over the planet), and one could argue that tamjacks as a whole have this to some extent (the extinct tamustel in particular is even described as living in villages). But the twineshrog's technological advances might make it difficult to see it as an animal, and one would not be shamed for assuming it to be smarter than stated after seeing everything it can accomplish. But tool use is not the only component to personhood, and the twineshrog is actually missing some very important pieces which prevent it from advancing.

The most important missing piece is the complete lack of a language, written or spoken. The twineshrog communicates entirely using instinctive vocalization and body language. Like other shrogs it is capable of attaching meanings to the communication of other species, and it is able to memorize a large number of these, but it cannot reproduce them or comprehend the full complexity of true language. In lab settings it can learn to use a soundboard, but this is a completely unnatural behavior which could never occur in the wild. This means that its ability to communicate ideas is limited to what can be shown, such as the process of making a spear; it is completely locked out of stories or cultural ideas as a result, and without the ability to share and build on old ideas from a variety of sources, knowledge cannot accumulate. This limitation is the primary factor keeping twineshrogs more or less locked in place both technologically and culturally. The only reason they have gotten as far as they have at all is because of their instinctive nest-building, which had been forced into its current state by the need for their ancestors to build large hollow nests sturdy enough to float in the open ocean for months or even years while being constantly battered by storms and oceanic megafauna.

Even in their "hypertrophied" state nearly comparable to the tool use instincts of the Terran human, the nest-making and tool use abilities of twineshrogs still fall short of those of true sophonts. Twineshrogs, and shrogs as a whole, are generally locked into limited, instinctive ways of thinking about their nests and tools, which is most visible in the fact that most shrogs can only use one or two general types of tool and all shrog nests are radially symmetric even across millions of years of separation. They have an instinctive concept of newness, much like humans and cetaceans, which allows innovation to exist, but this is just as instinctively limited to making their existing nests and tools as sturdy and useful as possible without deviating from instinctive blueprints, as in their seafaring ancestors deviating too far from the instinctive nest design could be fatal. Given that the ancestors of shrogs first started making floating nests 35 million years before the Twineshrog evolved, the restrictive instincts have been enforced and reinforced to the point that it may be very difficult, if not impossible, for any shrog to ever gain the ability to intentionally experiment with the shapes of their nests and tools. In a sense, such deviations where they occur are just as much an evolutionary trait as changes to their own flesh. Even the twineshrog's biggest innovation outside of twine, trap-making, has its roots in modified nest-building and food storage instincts.

Outside of the limitations of the characteristics which give twineshrogs their "sophont aesthetic", they also generally fail cognitive tests that a sophont would pass. Being largely solitary, twineshrogs struggle to pass several tests related to recognizing and thinking about themselves and others. Their ability to feel empathy is inconsistent at best across their population, and passing the mirror test is more difficult for them than for more social shrogs. Strangely for a solitary creature, twineshrogs actually do pass some theory of mind tests, such as the false belief test; this is related to their trapping behavior, as they need to trick an organism into not believing there to be a trap by camouflaging it.

==Other Information==
On the twineshrog’s appearance, it has lost most of its osteoderms due to it not having very many predators further inland, though it retains facial spikes because it still finds these attractive; females are more likely to settle in a region if the local males have prominent facial spikes, and the males likewise will be more likely to claim territory that contains females with prominent facial spikes. The twineshrog varies somewhat in color across its range. Populations in more open habitats tend towards a golden color matching Darwin’s naturally yellow soils or off-white matching Dixon, while those in the forests are often melanistic, having jet black fur with only small hints of yellow. Though the twineshrog is not a cat, it is large enough and its appearance is sufficiently cat-like that such melanistic individuals may resemble and even be incorrectly referred to as black panthers.

The twineshrog has caused the spread of the cleaner borvermid and the false cleaner borvermid across its entire range. It defecates outside away from its nest and does a good job of removing rotting food to avoid attracting scavengers, so it does not have a symbiotic shailnitor descendant by its side to clean its nest.

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Hopefully this shrog isn't too ambitious - it has one of the most important inventions humanity ever made, after all. It's not intended to hit every mark for personhood (or near-personhood), but like other shrogs have excessive strength in some areas while being completely lacking in others to create an uncanny, mismatched, but functional smart animal.

Name: Tierracolmillos (Hircumgnathus plumauream)
Creator: OviraptorFan
Ancestor: Spotted Sauceback (Ungulunglus azul)
Habitat: Javen Temperate Rainforest, Javen Tropical Rainforest
Size: 70 centimeters long
Support: Endoskeleton (Chitin)
Diet: Omnivore (Clusterblades roots, Carnofern Flugwurm larvae, Hikahoe, Tusovinda roots, Carnossamer roots and fruit, Twin-Tail Orbibom bulb, Mainland Fuzzpalm berries, Tropical Gecoba Tree fruit, Crystal Swordgrass roots, Whiskrugg, Minikruggs, Vermees, Pioneeroots, Teacup Saucebacks, Supershrooms, Supershrooms, Sunstalks, Neuks, Gamergate Gundis, Tamed Berry Arbourshrooms, Umbral Sphinx), Scavenger
Respiration: Active (Microlungs)
Thermoregulation: Endotherm (Feathers)
Reproduction: Sexual (Male and Female, Eggs and Larvae)

As time progressed and new waves of predators appeared on the scene, along with changes in climate and the evolution of other saucebacks such as the jewel-eyed saucebacks, the spotted sauceback populations found within the Javen Temperate Rainforest began to decline. To survive, the population of spotted saucebacks found in the region had to adopt a completely different lifestyle from other spotted sauceback populations, being burrowers. This led to multiple adaptations developing to better suit this new behavior such as very distinct mandibles and a lower posture, adaptations that eventually led to the evolution of the new species known as the tierracolmillos, once this species evolved they would replace their ancestors within the Javen Temperate Rainforest.

Since it spends much of its time underground, its limbs have taken a sprawling posture to better fit through small tunnels while the claws themselves have become more robust to better aid with kicking soil behind it. The face has undergone the most significant changes, however, with the mandibles becoming giant and buck-toothed in shape which makes them ideal for dislodging soil. To deal with the constant wear on the two big teeth from digging, the mandibles constantly grow throughout their lives. When it is digging, smell does not exactly provide much help and so the nostrils are able to be sealed shut to prevent dirt from getting lodged in them, while the ears have reduced in size to also prevent them from getting covered in dirt. With all the debris being kicked up from its daily activities, the tierracolmillos can seal its spiracles shut on the base of its tail to prevent them breathing in the dust. Though it can go so several minutes of intensive digging without taking a single breath, the tierracolmillos does eventually need to stop to take a break.

In the pitch-black darkness of its burrows, eyesight would be pretty useless for the tierracolmillos while its ability to use echolocation proves absolutely vital for navigating both its own tunnels and those made by potential prey. It will also use its sense of smell when not actively digging into the substrate, allowing it to smell potential prey, threats, or competitors crawling about in its home. While the powerful mandibles can crush small prey to then be eaten, it also helps the tierracolmillos with ripping off small bits of flora to eat for itself. Indeed, the tierracolmillos primarily eats vegetation with meat only making up about 30-40% of its diet. The species particularly has a taste for fruit, which is a readily available source of food that it can take advantage of. The one big problem is getting the fruit, which requires the tierracolmillos to leave the safety of its tunnels to wander around on the surface. When above ground, the tierracolmillos is very skittish and will immediately run back to a hole if it senses danger. Echolocating above ground can alert its position to other carnivores, such as the terrorbeak or its close relatives, resulting in the tierracolmillos instead using its sense of smell to navigate above ground(though it will use echolocation when it is running back to a burrow). To avoid predators on the surface, the tierracolmillos heavily relies on camouflage to avoid being spotted, with white or golden morphs existing in areas with either white or golden soil respectively.

While the tierracolmillos do not live in packs like their ancestor and forage for food alone, the species will form pair bonds. Indeed, the pair will interact with one another by rubbing their faces against each other. When it comes to breeding, the eggs are laid in a special chamber dug out in the deeper tunnels. Here, over a hundred little eggs will be deposited and then covered by decaying flora to help keep them warm. Both parents will often return to the chamber to inspect it for potential nest raiders and to make sure the eggs are incubating properly. Once the young hatch, they are small and legless, being totally reliant on the parents to survive. When the adults find the larvae, one will move into the chamber and guard them, while the other will continue foraging for food. After a period of time, the pair will switch places, with this cycle going on for several months until the young develop legs. Once the juveniles are able to move around on their own, the parents will continue to protect them for about half a year, until eventually the young leave the burrow system behind to find their patch of dirt to dig into.


A top view of the mandibles.

==Note==
* The name Tierracolmillos includes the s when singular and does not change in plural form, much like how you still say deer whether it's singular or plural.

Have this new sauceback! Do give your opinions on it! The reproduction bit may need the most improvement, so do focus on that please.

This post has been edited by OviraptorFan: May 26 2021, 08:08 PM

Gentonna (Canusvibrissae altilis)
Ancestor: Giant Leatherback
Creator: Coolsteph
Size: 2.5 m long
Habitat: Fermi Temperate Beach, Driftwood Islands Temperate Bank (rare), Driftwood Islands Temperate Shallows (rare; foraging), South Temperate Jujubee Ocean (Sunlight Zone) (rare; on rafts)
Diet: Herbivore (Twinkiiros, Twinkorals, Mangot fruit-leaves (rarely), Journeying: Colonial Bobiiro, Lediiro, Ouchiiro)
Reproduction: Sexual, Two Genders, Ovoviviparous (Non-Nourishing Pool Organ)
Respiration: Active (Lungs)
Thermoregulation: Gigantotherm; Blubber
Support: Endoskeleton (Bone)

Gentonnas fulfill a aquatic vegetation-eating role on Fermi Island, similar to marine iguanas. Like marine iguanas, a Gentonna is good at holding its breath: it can hold its breath for about 10-12 minutes. Gentonnas are most common in colder southern latitudes of their temperate range, where dark grey to black “blackflora” are more dominant. Juveniles tend to sleep near large masses of shed Bonegrove leaves. Gentonnas move by waddling, wading and paddling. They bask on warm sand, rocks, and occasionally abandoned seafaring shrog nests. They live in large groups, with juveniles in the interior of the group.

Feeding

In eating Twinkiiros and Twinkorals, it avoids the intense competition for small, tender blackflora (e.g., Sunstalks) in its habitat. Gentonnas forage mainly in the low intertidal zone, though they can forage even deeper or farther from the shore. Rarely, they eat Mangot fruit-leaves that have gotten on the ground.

A Gentonna requires substantial calories to build up blubber, but its metabolism is fairly slow. It can survive without food without any ill effect for three days, drawing upon its blubber for energy, and takes twelve days to starve. (slows down metabolism for feeding?)

Physiology



Gentonnas have tough, leathery skin with a layer of fat underneath. The fat is often an unappetizing greyish color. Older Gentonnas tend to have thicker shoulder-spikes and rougher, somewhat pebbly skin, the former of which reduces their sense of hearing. Unusually for thornbacks, Gentonnas can hear. Its shoulder spikes sit on a primitive tympanic membrane-like structure. The spikes move as vibrations as carried through the air or water, giving it a weak sense of hearing and a sense of wind direction, which gives them some crude warning of poor weather that could send them out to sea. The spikes can also detect eddies in the water, something like that of a sea lion's whiskers, though much less sensitive.

Eggs are laid internally in a non-nourishing pool organ. The young metamorphose from fish-like larvae to reptile-like newborns inside the mother, and are "born" (nudged along by muscular contractions) when about 12-13 cm in size.

Its jaws are fairly weak, but due to its diet of fairly tender vegetation, they don't really need to be strong.

Like their ancestors, they make mating displays using brightly-colored throat patches.

Predator Interactions

Like [[Sayront]]s, they are most active at dusk and nighttime, helping it avoid [[Seashrog]]s and [[Velocidohve]]s. [[Shantak]]s are their chief predators, as they are much faster and also mainly nocturnal. They almost always stay near the water's edge: their predators are slow swimmers, when they have any notable swimming abilities at all. Their thick skulls and blubbery necks grant them some resistance to the skull-cracking swipes of Shanktaks. They are most vulnerable to predators while young and small, with weaker bones and thinner layers of blubber.

[[Snapjaw Sandcrock]]s and [[Stonebeak Phyler]]s are rarer predators. Snapjaw Sandcrocks attack them up on the dunes of the beach, where they rarely venture. A Gentonna typically does not die from the trauma of being gored by its shoulder-spikes, but instead of blood loss when the predator rips out chunks of its flesh.

Stonebeak Phylers only attack them if they wander onto the Fermi Temperate Coast, such as by boarding pieces of driftwood, "rafts" made by Raft-Building Cone Puffgrass, or abandoned Seashrog nests. Occasionally, Stonebeak Phylers lodge themselves into a Gentonna’s thick, blubbery flesh with its claws and try to bite it to death, only for the Gentonna to flee into the water, drowning the predator that can’t extricate itself in time.

As they are nocturnal and Seashrogs are diurnal, Seashrogs are only a rare predator. As adults are so large and blubbery, they often survive one hit from a shrog spear, and are able to flee into deep water where shrogs find them inconvenient to pursue. Mated pair Seashrogs attacking together are more likely to kill them. The juveniles are especially vulnerable to shrog attacks, and thus are even more strongly nocturnal than the adults.

Pirate Waxface Interactions

Pirate Waxfaces do not recognize them as prey, and thus do not harm them. It is fairly common to see Pirate Waxfaces and a small herd of Gentonnas living closely together near an abandoned seafaring shrog nest. Weaned juvenile Pirate Waxfaces may even stand or sit on top of Gentonnas, helping them "see" (echolocate) the environment better. Juvenile Gentonnas who have been pursued by Velocidohves are slower to approach Pirate Waxfaces, due to their vague resemblance to their predators (which prefer targeting the young and small), but lose this fear when Pirate Waxfaces are holding spears, as it drastically changes their perceived shapes. Pirate Waxfaces repeatedly adjusting their grip on their spears with their necks seems to "hypnotize" Gentonnas, but the rapid shape-changes actually just baffle them. Though they sometimes drift out to sea on shrog nests with Pirate Waxfaces, the Pirate Waxfaces don’t defend them from Stonebeak Phylers (who don’t attack Pirate Waxfaces) and may scavenge their bodies afterward.

Driftwood Islands Populations and Effects

Their habit of boarding abandoned seafaring shrog dwellings, including ones newly "abandoned" by Pirate Waxfaces slaughtering the inhabitants, has allowed a small population to spread to the Driftwood Islands Temperate Bank. The journeying Gentonnas eat stored Mangot fruit-leaves, Twinkiiros that may be growing on the ship's underside if it is decaying, and Twinkiiro relatives that are free-floating. Their low metabolisms and ability to go several days without food help them survive the trip. Those Gentonnas that end up on the Driftwood Islands tend to be slightly more tolerant of Pirate Waxfaces (which inadvertently "protect" them from any traveling Seashrogs by killing the Seashrogs) and can go without food for slightly longer, though they appear identical to other populations on Fermi. Those on the Driftwood Islands eat a greater proportion of Twinkiiros than Twinkorals.

Gentonnas' habit of living alongside Pirate Waxfaces in seafaring shrog nests has given Pirate Waxfaces more of a food supply. Though Pirate Waxfaces don't recognize them as prey, they eat what's left when other predators, such as Stonebeak Phylers show up and kill a Gentonna. Predators also include Terrorfang Hafgufa newborns, which aren't large or experienced enough to guarantee killing prey 2.5 meters long and consume them underwater: Gentonnas may escape, board the ship, and die of their wounds. Having a steadier food supply on journeys has helped Pirate Waxfaces get to the Driftwood Islands Temperate Bank. However, once there, they are confused by the geography of the small islands and cannot adapt their prey-finding behavior, and so starve to death. The only traces of their arrival are influences on the genes of local population of Gentonnas and a few microbes from their bodies.

Due to the obstacles of large beach-dwelling and submerged trees on Fermi making it difficult for shrog dwellings to drift out to sea, Gentonna colonization of the Driftwood Islands is sporadic. The rare colonization events mean the Driftwood Islands populations' gene pools have slightly different gene frequencies from a lack of mixing with the main population, though the two populations look identical and aren't even subspecies.

The Fermian population is nigh-indistinguishable from other sea-coast subspecies but for more commonly using "shapechanging" behavior to hypnotize Gentonnas. The more common behavior is simply passed on from parent to offspring, like a wolf teaching pups a locally-distinctive hunting technique.

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These might be able to get to the Driftwood Islands (Driftwood Islands Temperate Bank) by eating Mangot fruit-leaves stored by Seashrog nests and eating Ouchiiros, Lediiros and Colonial Bobiiros on the way through in the South Jujubee Temperate Ocean. However, I am not sure whether this is plausible, or whether Twinkiiros and Twinkorals are able to live on partly-decayed masses of driftwood.

Name: Tyrant Crested Limbless (Alleluiophis cuniculuiapetus)
Creator: OviraptorFan
Ancestor: Crested King Limbless (Loricacollis rex)
Habitat: Drake Tundra
Size: 3.5 meters long
Support: Endoskeleton (Bone)
Diet: Carnivore (Adults: (Shortface Sauceback, Snohawkworm, Warf Gossalizard, Woollycoat, Fuzzcoat, Crested King Limbless, Needlewing, Shaggy Glasseater, Drake Bubbleskin, Gutsy Phlyer, Grazing Gossalizard, Bipedal Uktank, Sprinting Bubbleskin, Feral Tuskent, Steppe Lizalope, Lumbering Pasakerd, Juvenile and Subadult Polar Barons); Juveniles: (Helmethead Uksip, Burroskunik, Uksor, Scaled Diveskunik); Scavenger
Respiration: Active (Lungs)
Thermoregulation: Adults; Gigantotherm, Juveniles; Mesotherm
Reproduction: Sexual, Two Genders, Viviparous

In the cold tundras of Drake, the crested king limbless was not able to handle the cold winters very well, although being underground the majority of the time provided some help. To better adapt to living in the tundra, the ancestors of the tyrant crested limbless would rapidly grow in size as a larger mass means more heat is retained. This led to them also making a change in lifestyle, filling an ecological role unlike anything else in the tundra. By filling a completely distinct role of an ambush predator, the populations of large crested king limbless were able to grow even bigger. Eventually, all of these changes culminated in the populations of large crested king limbless splitting off into a unique species.

Adult tyrant crested limbless spend large amounts of time entirely underground, with only the top portion of its face exposed. If things prove uneventful for about a week, the individual will move to another location by burrowing underground. Unlike their ancestor, the plates of the tyrant crested limbless have become unfused and taken more of a spade shape, additionally having muscles attached to the base of each plate that can be tensed up to lift the individual plates or relaxed to lower them. The species moves underground by using their snouts to push dirt aside, while violent muscle contractions cause their plates to move them forward with decent speed, with the plates covering the whole body aside from the head to make it more efficient. This method of movement is useful for launching themselves out of the substrate to lunge at whatever fauna of decent size is nearby. Once it catches something, the tyrant crested limblesses' powerful jaws and robust teeth can easily crush bone and kill prey quickly.

As an adult, the tyrant crested limbless has very few natural predators as everything around it either is small enough to be considered prey or are specialized towards hunting specific kinds of fauna in the region. Adult tyrant crested limbless will try to tackle anything around 30 centimeters long and longer, even being known to attack subadult polar barons on occasion though these attempts are usually unsuccessful. Young tyrant crested limblesses, on the other hand, are much more vulnerable to both predators and the elements. Unlike the adults, whose gigantothermy means they can tolerate the cold temperatures of the Drake Tundra pretty well, juvenile tyrant crested limblesses are highly susceptible to the cold temperatures especially during the winter. To avoid freezing to death, these young limblesses will spend almost all of their time underground, living in a similar fashion to their ancestor where they burrow after small game such as uksips and skuniks. The only time juvenile tyrant crested limblesses come to the surface at all for the first 4 years of their lives is simply to breathe. By the time they are around 4 years old, they are big enough to spend more time close to or at the surface, which is around the time they transition into their adult lifestyle. Tyrant crested limblesses can live for as long as 60 years, since the biggest risk for the adults is lack of food or the elements rather than predators.

Since the lifestyle of the tyrant crested limbless does not suit cooperation, the species is completely solitary as an adult with the only social interaction between individuals occurring when a male and female mate. Males no longer bite the female’s neck, since their powerful jaws would likely crush the plates and surely kill her and thus end the male’s chances of producing offspring. Young tyrant crested limblesses, however, will still cooperate with one another with hunting and avoiding predators. When it comes to hunting, young tyrant crested limbless individuals will try to herd prey towards other limblesses as it will be likely caught by at least one of them.


A Tyrant Crested Limbless waiting for prey to approach, only the very top of the snout is exposed.


The Tyrant Crested Limbless erupting out of the sediment towards its chosen prey, a Strider Fuzzcoat.

Tada! Had this bad boi planned since gen 163! Do give your opinions on it, since I was having trouble making it fit within the Drake Tundra.

This post has been edited by OviraptorFan: Jun 8 2021, 09:14 PM

Quassagule (Quillotestudo quassa)
Creator: Coolsteph
Ancestor: Quaxaca
Size: 18 cm tall
Habitat: Dixon-Darwin Rocky, Dixon Tropical Scrub, Dixon Savanna, Dixon-Darwin High Grassland
Support: Cellulose Walls, Lignified Stems
Diet: Photosynthesis
Respiration: Passive (Stomata)
Thermoregulation: Ectothermic
Reproduction: Super Fast Asexual Budding, Very Resistant Spores

Quassagules are small, weedy generalist species found in abundance in their habitats.

After millions of years, it adapted to the many herbivores eating it. A Quassagule is less digestible than the Quaxaca: its tissue and especially its side shoots are tougher, more fibrous, and higher in cellulose. Like its ancestor, it has tiny, spine-like thorns hidden among its fuzzy leaves, which aren't long enough to stick out through its fuzz, and gradually wear down the teeth of herbivores. The thorns are particularly hard to digest. The extra cellulose has a metabolic cost: where herbivores are less abundant, its ancestor can outcompete it for resources.

Like its ancestor, root adaptations allow it to use available phosphorus fairly effectively, and hosting nitrocycle microbes in its roots gives it a dependable supply of nitrogen.

The young Quassagules are redder from photoprotective pigments, which are masked by purple pigments as they grow, but still exist. Unusually for most purpleflora, when it dries, it becomes a pastel reddish-purple, like a washed-out mulberry shade, not the typical pink or champagne, due to its underlying red pigments. Pinkish herbivores adapted to the color of dry purpleflora stand out in stands of dry Quassagules.

They are not particularly suited for prolonged dry periods. In their drier habitats, they die out in the dry season fairly often, but their spores grow quickly once the wet season starts.

It photosynthesizes both from its stem tissue and from its long, fine, fuzzy leaves. Undisturbed, Quassagules will grow three shoots. However, in nature, it is fairly common for it to have more, especially if substantially damaged while young. The secondary shoots are somewhat flattened, like blades of grass. Mature Quassagules have faint, thin dark purple stripes on the central stalk.

Their stalks wave gently in the wind of the plains, hence their name being derived from a Latin word meaning “to wave”.

They are most genetically diverse west of Blood Tropical River.

(Trivia: Actually, “Quassagule” is nonsensical, and it’s only a coincidence it sounds like something meaningful. This was originally designed for Generation 158, and never released until now.)


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I noticed a lot of organisms exist across big habitats separated by large rivers, with unclear ways of existing across rivers. Unless there's a good explanation as to how it got across the river, I recommend keeping it west of Blood Tropical River, as a way of making the different sections of habitats separated by rivers more distinct.

Name: Grelag (Vomax omnivorous)
Creator: Coolsteph
Ancestor: Bendohve
Habitat: Jlindy Tropical Beach
Diet: Omnivore (Fuzzweeds, Fuzzpile berries, Mainland Fuzzpalm berries, False Cleaner Borvermid, Minikruggs, Teacup Saucebacks, juvenile Stowaway Harmblesses, juvenile Serpungos, young Kakonat, Silkruggs, Sapworms (swarming), Dartirs (largely incidental when eating carrion)), Scavenger
Size: 60 cm tall
Reproduction: Sexual, Two Genders, Live Birth
Support: Endoskeleton (Jointed Wood)
Respiration: Active (Lungs)
Thermoregulation: Endotherm

The Grelag, in contrast to its ancestor which probed the sand for eggs and tide pools for Scuttlers, seeks out much more visible food. It adapted readily to the new food supply of Shrog-spread organisms.

General Physiology & Behavior

Physically, most of its body has only minor differences from its ancestor: its thicker neck, straighter beak, a knob on its beak, a sturdier, rougher-looking beak, a slightly paler tail, slightly paler eyes, and different proportions when pregnant. Its biggest difference is its muscular, well-defined legs.

It is active in the daytime, and forages in open, sandy beach habitats with white sand in small flocks or two to four. Though it spends more time on the land of the beach than its ancestor, it is still semi-aquatic, with webbed feet which help it swim. As most of its food is terrestrial, it largely goes into the water to escape predators. Though it resembles a wingless seagull or goose, it walks and runs well, like a chicken or Indian runner duck. Usually, it runs away from predators. It has remarkable stamina and agility. Like its ancestor, it can repeatedly make vertical jumps to scare other fauna. Their leg structure is somewhat similar to that of human legs.

Grelags’ default response to threats is running away. If attacked, they make threat displays of beak-clacking and jumping. If further harassed, it will projectile-vomit and snap, bite, and jump forward to attack the predator.

Diet

The many fine serrations on the beak help it grip its small prey. Most of what it eats is one-sixth of its size or smaller. Fuzzweeds are one of the most common, strongly preferred things in its diet: it eats by uprooting them and swallowing them whole. Their destructive way of feeding on fuzzweeds prevents fuzzweeds from dominating the habitat of Jlindy Tropical Coast. Grelags compete somewhat with the Dixon Hookphlyer, due to similar diets. It occasionally scavenges, and is not deterred by any Dartirs or Dartir larvae on the meat. It has some resistance to being poisoned by decaying meat.

Other

As a plent, it mates and gives birth through its mouth. Its throat-womb is at the base of its neck, almost on its upper chest. Birthing is quick and easy: it can consciously control the muscle contractions to some extent. They usually birth two, sometimes three chicks.

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If this is accepted, I recommend "Larusanser" ("gull-goose") as the genus name for this and the Bendohve.)

(Is the plural "Serpungo" or "Serpungoes"?)
This feels a little short, by my standards. Are there things I could elaborate on?

Name: Tenant Phlyer (Sangexorituti inquilinus)
Creator: Clayren
Ancestor: Courier Phlyer (Aveflora tabellarium)
Habitat: Ramul Temperate Beach, Ramul Temperate Woodland
Size: 80 cm Wingspan
Support: Endoskeleton (Jointed Wood)
Diet: Frugivore (Greatcap Baseejie, Weeping Baseejie)
Respiration: Active (Lungs)
Thermoregulation: Heterotherm (Basking, Muscle-Generated Heat)
Reproduction: Sexual (Live birth)

The Tenant Phlyer is descended from those Courier Phlyers which lived permanently on Ramul Island. The large beak and powerful jaw muscles of the Courier Phlyer were well suited to breaking through the hard crystalline exterior of Baseejie fruit. It was therefor a minor adjustment for the Tenant Phlyer to go from living in nests atop Baseejie trees to making their homes inside Baseejie trees. These hollow crystal florae provide an inviting shelter from high summer temperatures and inclement weather, along with a ready supply of fruit year-round. Furthermore, the color and structure of these flora provided superior protection against Press-Toothed Bubbleskins and Finback Flunejaws. Because of the many benefits their trees provide Tenant Phlyers are very territorial and will assault other Phlyers that get too close to their chosen tree. They are even known to swoop at the odd foraging Wolvershrog, despite the great difference in size.

The Tenant Phlyer’s size and morphology are adapted to the sometimes-tight confines of crystal florae. Almost half the size of the Courier Phlyer and much sleeker, the Tenant is able to squeeze into very small entrances it makes with its powerful beak. The tail is shorter and more aerodynamic, with the spikes having moved down to a position which better protects its delicate “fins”. The claws are much the same as those found on Courier Phlyers; useful for carrying fruit back to the nest. Coloration is also mostly unchanged, with males displaying bright yellow and blue skin and females remaining a nearly uniform green. The male crest, however, has shrunk and become more streamlined.

The Tenant Phlyer is entirely reliant on the fruit of Baseejie trees. The Greatcap Baseejie and Weeping Baseejie produce fruit year-round on Ramul Island, allowing the Tenant Phlyer to specialize. Their digestive system is even better at processing the “meat” of crystal fruit, while disposing of the inedible shell. The hard pellets which the Tenant excretes litter the ground around their home tree.

Tenant Phlyer social behavior is greatly adapted to their unique form of nesting. With limited space inside their homes this Phlyer has abandoned both flocking and harems. Indeed, a mating pair of Tenants will actively discourage other Tenants from coming near their chosen tree, swooping and pecking at any that come too close. The only time when Tenant Phlyers gather is in the summer for breeding season, when unattached adults will gather in great flocks on the beach. Males will display their colorful skin in the midday sun, hoping to attract the attention of a female. Tenant Phlyers will mate for life in monogamous pairs and locate a tree of their own. Together the two will chew a hole into the crystal foliage and maintain the entrance, ensuring that it does not shrink too much. When the fruit provided by their home is not enough one Tenant will leave in search of fruit while the other remains at the nest to defend it from other Tenants. New or homeless Tenant Phlyer couples will at times try to “steal” a tree when one Tenant is away, so whichever of the pair that stays put must be on guard. Because of this need to stay at or near home most of the time male Tenants are mostly monogamous. A male that attempts to divide his time between two mates and two nests is likely to lose both and few trees provide enough fruit to support a large nesting group.

This post has been edited by Clayren2:Electric Boogaloo: Jun 24 2021, 04:06 PM