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"known to" That's superfluous, given it's being described from a position of total knowledge.

"as it instinctively believes that the grass is “purpler” on the other side." That doesn't make any sense. How can one instinctively believe something? Certainly, the human brain (and likely other animals' brains) have innate biases in processing certain kinds of information, which can include the optimism bias, but the way this is phrased doesn't seem scientific, and the particular way "the grass is greener on the other side" is used could be taken to mean it mis-perceives color with distance. One alternative is suggesting they are very prone to optimism bias, or are neophilic (in more colloquial terms: "curious") animals inclined to explore.

How does it "use fermentation"? Does it ferment in its stomach? Its gut? A brief mention of what microbes are used would be interesting, though Guttoplaques are surely included. (Speaking of that...they sure have a wide distribution of "all species with a stomach".)

Its body shape reminds me of the Sayront, especially in its scales. It sure would mess people up if I made a grey descendant for this that looked like a Sayront. It'd be like seeing a marsupial that looked like a Triceratops.

That's an interesting background...though of course purple makes sense.

This post has been edited by Coolsteph: Apr 1 2021, 09:03 PM

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I don't really see the similarity apart from them both being rotund and having big scales all over.

I personally feel this should no longer be called a Tamow, seeing how removed it is from the other tamows, but that’s just me.

I mean, it looks a lot like the first tamow.

This creature is really big for something described as being like a cow. 2 or 3 meters would be more cow-like, meanwhile this species is around the size of an elephant.

I shrank it a bit. Though, elephants are bigger than that; 4 meters is about rhino-size.

This post has been edited by Disgustedorite: Apr 2 2021, 04:10 PM