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QUOTE (TheBigDeepCheatsy @ Nov 3 2021, 12:18 AM)

Any updates for this one?

No, not yet, partly because I need to know what level of intelligence and tool use is appropriate, in case I need to adjust the tool-using aspects of its body accordingly.

I think storing a tool is fine, otters do it, birds do it, augmenting a tool is good too, birds do it, primates do it.

I don't know too much about the clade though.

The image does not need to be changed (apart from being finished)

Oh, actually I'm wrong; I don't think waxfaces have the oral ring teeth anymore except developmentally, so those should be removed from the image. They went through a phase where they were liquivores, which would have caused them to lose use of their teeth, and basal jaydoh waxfaces swallowed their prey whole (no chewing). @Coolsteph

I have added the art and slightly updated the description, clarifying it does not have teeth.
I've tried something...different for this art style. Let's see if anyone can tell whose art style I am imitating.

I do not know, but I am curious

Oh it still hasn't got a species binomial name yet

I assume the art is good now and the description just needs a review.

I have corrected the species binomial name and diet.

As a presumed instinctive tool user, wouldn't it be able to pick up and figure out how to use tools it comes across that were made by others of its kind?

If you're asking about kinds of tools it's never used before or seen used before, then I doubt it. I may be an instinctive tool user as a human, but (prior to researching it) if I found a Maori digging stick (kō) on the ground in front of me, I wouldn't intuitively know its use, even if I found it on a farm. It took looking at pictures of it being used and about a minute to figure it out, and Hypnotizer Waxfaces don't have the breadth of tool use experience to consult as humans do, nor pictures to look at. Unlike, say, New Caledonian crows, it has a poor ability to actually make tools, so it may not be able to guess function of unknown objects very well.

If you're asking about minor variants or styles or the same basic tools, then perhaps.

I still need feedback on this:

QUOTE (Coolsteph @ Oct 1 2021, 12:51 PM)

Does this seem more realistic? I could use the crab-eating macaque as the closest intelligence match instead of a chimpanzee. --- For tools, uses only spars of wood. A long, sharpened one is used for hunting big things or repelling would-be competitors. Smaller ones with broader tips are used to uncover food in the sand or silt or to flip over stones. Other than sharpening or narrowing the tips using its teeth, it has little ability to modify tools and often takes them pre-made from local Shrogs. Does not herd Gentonnas or pull down Mangot fruit-leaves for them. It's often associated with them, and Gentonnas do not often fear them. It protects them only inadvertently: predators that would eat it are also threats to its young and have overlapping diets with it. Gentonna flesh is particularly consumed in the winter due to its fattiness, relative safety to obtain, and the fact their body condition worsens less rapidly than some other Fermisaurs. Reduction or removal of spur on braincase.

QUOTE (Coolsteph @ Oct 1 2021, 12:51 PM)

Does this seem more realistic? I could use the crab-eating macaque as the closest intelligence match instead of a chimpanzee. --- For tools, uses only spars of wood. A long, sharpened one is used for hunting big things or repelling would-be competitors. Smaller ones with broader tips are used to uncover food in the sand or silt or to flip over stones. Other than sharpening or narrowing the tips using its teeth, it has little ability to modify tools and often takes them pre-made from local Shrogs. Does not herd Gentonnas or pull down Mangot fruit-leaves for them. It's often associated with them, and Gentonnas do not often fear them. It protects them only inadvertently: predators that would eat it are also threats to its young and have overlapping diets with it. Gentonna flesh is particularly consumed in the winter due to its fattiness, relative safety to obtain, and the fact their body condition worsens less rapidly than some other Fermisaurs. Reduction or removal of spur on braincase.

Seems fine

I didn't change the spur on the braincase, but it has otherwise been updated. It should be ready for review.