Misinterpretation happens a lot, unfortunately. For the sake of becoming better-capable of detecting misinterpretation and making species that are not easily misinterpreted, I'd like to propose an exercise of misinterpreting species on purpose to explore the different ways it could happen.
You can also meme about it with a backwards shrew if you want, I guess.
This post has been edited by Disgustedorite: Feb 1 2021, 02:55 PM
You can also meme about it with a backwards shrew if you want, I guess.
This post has been edited by Disgustedorite: Feb 1 2021, 02:55 PM
Is this an exercise on misinterpreting a single species, or building a new species off a misinterpretation of a previous one? The following is the latter. I may have gone overboard in the sheer intensity of misinterpretations.
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Wrong Xenobee Descendant
It reproduces through protrusible, tongue-like extensions of the cloacal walls, typically tucked behind "lips". It uses its small mandibles to eat leaves, as a supplement to its diet of nectar.
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Wrong Whipswarmer Descendant
It has a very laterally flattened, lentil-like body, with one black eye each on either side of its face. Its many tail-hairs give it an unpleasant texture, deterring predators from eating it.
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Wrong Meiouks Descendant
Its large eyes are embedded within their transparent bodies to protect them from harm.
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Terribly, Terribly Wrong Xenowasps Descendant:
Their long, narwhal-like tooth is used like a snake's fang to inject venom when they sting. Their moist, yellow chemoreceptive patches give them a keen sense of smell. They guard nests of meat slurry, preserved with plant sap that solidifies to a honey-like consistency; the following product is called "meat honey".* The long hairs and claspers on their rear ends are important in mating. Much like lovebugs, they can fly while mating.
*Yes, I know about vulture bees, but I'm going for as many misinterpretations as possible for that one.
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Terribly Wrong Roygus Descendant, Did You Even Read the Description
Using acid secreted from pores on its tongue, it hollows out small brown rocks to make a home. It grasps prey using its large tongue and starts to digest them with its acid. Its four-pointed growths are gills, and wave gently in the slow-moving streams of its habitat. It spawns through a small hole it makes at the the top of the rock it lives in. Though its outer skin is green, its inner tissue is grey. This organism is delicious with a soft, smooth texture.
This post has been edited by Coolsteph: Feb 1 2021, 03:35 PM
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Wrong Xenobee Descendant
It reproduces through protrusible, tongue-like extensions of the cloacal walls, typically tucked behind "lips". It uses its small mandibles to eat leaves, as a supplement to its diet of nectar.
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Wrong Whipswarmer Descendant
It has a very laterally flattened, lentil-like body, with one black eye each on either side of its face. Its many tail-hairs give it an unpleasant texture, deterring predators from eating it.
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Wrong Meiouks Descendant
Its large eyes are embedded within their transparent bodies to protect them from harm.
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Terribly, Terribly Wrong Xenowasps Descendant:
Their long, narwhal-like tooth is used like a snake's fang to inject venom when they sting. Their moist, yellow chemoreceptive patches give them a keen sense of smell. They guard nests of meat slurry, preserved with plant sap that solidifies to a honey-like consistency; the following product is called "meat honey".* The long hairs and claspers on their rear ends are important in mating. Much like lovebugs, they can fly while mating.
*Yes, I know about vulture bees, but I'm going for as many misinterpretations as possible for that one.
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Terribly Wrong Roygus Descendant, Did You Even Read the Description
Using acid secreted from pores on its tongue, it hollows out small brown rocks to make a home. It grasps prey using its large tongue and starts to digest them with its acid. Its four-pointed growths are gills, and wave gently in the slow-moving streams of its habitat. It spawns through a small hole it makes at the the top of the rock it lives in. Though its outer skin is green, its inner tissue is grey. This organism is delicious with a soft, smooth texture.
This post has been edited by Coolsteph: Feb 1 2021, 03:35 PM
That's one way to do it. I was just thinking like, for example, when I was first working with saucebacks the scent pits being called nostrils mixed me up a bit, and the description originally described sniffing. Hearthead's weird music note-shaped spiracles are a remnant of that confusion.
Wrong Shrew sauceback- inspired bye a double take mis interpretation of mine
running down small prey with its tiny, but significant eyes, laid around its snout in a near conical shape. It hunts prey with its beak, lacking jaws much like darwins sauce backs, plunging its horns into prey and lapping up the blood with a long tounge. Its larvea crawl defencless along the forest floor until they discover a suitable plant food or carcass, and consume it. Its great ears, built from its previous species, jut out to the side when perched like a fennec fox , eerily scanning the desert sands for the faintest rustle of prey
running down small prey with its tiny, but significant eyes, laid around its snout in a near conical shape. It hunts prey with its beak, lacking jaws much like darwins sauce backs, plunging its horns into prey and lapping up the blood with a long tounge. Its larvea crawl defencless along the forest floor until they discover a suitable plant food or carcass, and consume it. Its great ears, built from its previous species, jut out to the side when perched like a fennec fox , eerily scanning the desert sands for the faintest rustle of prey
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