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This is for the Wayne barlowe competition

300 years jesus christ

They usually die before that.

But they would make great pets.

What do they do for that long? Don't they have to worry about competing with their own offspring?

Eat food, make babies, watch babies run off and get eaten sometimes because they're not poisonous yet.

Get in a deadly fight at age 143 maybe, after losing their territory 20 years prior.

Have a tree branch fall on them at 45.

They live on a continent, lots of room in my opinion for something that only lives 300 years and sticks to one chunk of woods.

Is there some evolutionary justification for such an exceptional lifespan? Something like 83 would be notable enough.
I'll look over the rest later.

Holding a territory for a long time would be due to greater fitness, when producing 6 young a year at the most then being able to produce young for a long time is helpful to increase your genetics in the gene pool.

After that I'm curious why there are parrots that can live up to 90, and why giant tortoises on an island live for 200, suspected maybe 500 by some people.

There are some things I could tweak though given low offspring numbers.

Seriously, how many more of these things are you going to do? I mean, even for me, this would be a bit excessive . I don't know. I like this one... it's very unique and weird, even for one of your critters. Good Barlowe resemblance too.

Edit: Also, this is basically the needlewing lineage's equivalent to the Phantom Capiri, isn't it?

Edit 2: Just out of curiosity (and I really am just curious), what exactly was it that drove you to evolve so many of these? Is it because you created the ancestor of the Needlewing and feel some kind of kinship? Or is that your strategy, jsut to pick out a single organism and evolve it a bunch of times in different directions to create diversity?

I have at least one more that I'll be making.

I wanted make a biennial plent and this clade was suggested.

Approval Checklist:
Art:
Art Present?: Y
Art clear?: Y
Gen number?: Y
All limbs shown?: Y
Reasonably Comparable to Ancestor?: Y
Realistic additions?: Y

Name:
Binomial Taxonomic Name?: Y
Creator?: Y

Ancestor:
Listed?: Y
What changes?:

• External?: Coloration, Wings, Front limbs, Wrinkles
• Internal?:
• Behavioral/Mental?: Nocturnal

Are Changes Realistic?: Y
New Genus Needed?: Y

Habitat:
Type?: 1/2
Flavor?: 2/3
Connected?: Y
Wildcard?: N

Size:
Same as Ancestor?: N
Within range?: Y ( 40 cm -> 50 cm)
Exception?: N/A

Support:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: Y
Other?: N/A

Diet:
Same as Ancestor?: N
Transition Rule?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: Y

Respiration:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Does It Fit Habitat?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: N/A
Other?: N/A

Thermoregulation:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Does It Fit Habitat?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: N/A
Other?: N/A

Reproduction:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Does It Fit Habitat?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: N/A
Other?: N/A

Description:
Length?: Y
Capitalized correctly?: N
Replace/Split from ancestor?: Split
Other?: N/A

Status: Approved

Removed from species hold - dependent on a species not yet approved, therefore cannot be approved yet nor put in the hold on the off chance the species it depends on is rejected (thus requiring this species to be edited to fit)

It relies on the Chickenpear, specifically, which may still have some writing mistakes that need to be dealt with.

I also want to change a few words in this ones description as well.

QUOTE (colddigger @ Nov 9 2021, 02:35 AM)

It relies on the Chickenpear, specifically, which may still have some writing mistakes that need to be dealt with. I also want to change a few words in this ones description as well.

Yeah, admittedly noticed some grammar errors in the Chickenpear.

QUOTE (TheBigDeepCheatsy @ Nov 9 2021, 02:09 AM)

QUOTE (colddigger @ Nov 9 2021, 02:35 AM) It relies on the Chickenpear, specifically, which may still have some writing mistakes that need to be dealt with. I also want to change a few words in this ones description as well. Yeah, admittedly noticed some grammar errors in the Chickenpear.

Could you point them out to me?
I don't always catch my mistakes.

Installing Grammarly for Google Chrome, pasting the description into an email, and then correcting the things Grammarly has highlighted should reduce the number of grammatical errors in the description. I checked, and it can still help significantly simply by highlighting things in the email form: signing up isn't necessary to make some use of it. For comparison, LibreOffice (which is similar to Microsoft Office) only highlighted one error. Other text processors may have similar error-detection capabilities to Grammarly, however.

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"day time": Daytime.
"arsenic based"
"it's availability"
"over all larger"
"bowing.The" (needs a space)
"otherwise the air" (needs a comma)
"trade offs"
"females territory"
"However it also" (needs a comma)

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Manually-inspected errors:

"to take on". That suggests purposeful action and an aim, which is discouraged.

"entire visible surface area of their eyeball" That's a pluralization error. It does seem unlikely the pupils would take up nearly the entire area of the eyeball at all times, as the phrasing suggests. Now, tarsiers do have very big pupils at night, but whether that's "nearly the entire area" is subjective.

"Once captured" "One captured,"

"their body" Its body.

The "mucus environment" needs some elaboration.

It's a large description, so I'll have to go over the rest later.