RE: Exquisite Biome - an ecosystem-crafting game
04-18-2024, 07:02 PM
This apex predator is omnivorous, and much like a bear, requires storing fat and bulk to survive brutal winters.
Thus, spring is the time to begin hunting once more and few sources of food are as plentiful as colonial insects. The inner wrists of this creature each has one looong graspy retractable appendage that can navigate the complex corridors found in these colonies. It lacks pain receptors , but does contain chemoreceptors , and is mostly a tough cartilage that can excrete a mucus to adhere to globs and globs of the little insects. (Think: anteater tounge that shoots from the wrist).
The predator is mostly quadrapedial, although it can also use its mighty girth to knock down large myrmecophytes whose habitants have overgrown the structural supports of their host or whose structure has been damaged by the harsh frosts of winter now recently thawed. This action requires the creature to brace its large flat paws against the side of the structure and tightly grip against it with the three large sloth-like claws attached to the end of each digit. It may do this with its forelimbs or backlimbs, depending on what position best suits the task at hand.
Thus, spring is the time to begin hunting once more and few sources of food are as plentiful as colonial insects. The inner wrists of this creature each has one looong graspy retractable appendage that can navigate the complex corridors found in these colonies. It lacks pain receptors , but does contain chemoreceptors , and is mostly a tough cartilage that can excrete a mucus to adhere to globs and globs of the little insects. (Think: anteater tounge that shoots from the wrist).
The predator is mostly quadrapedial, although it can also use its mighty girth to knock down large myrmecophytes whose habitants have overgrown the structural supports of their host or whose structure has been damaged by the harsh frosts of winter now recently thawed. This action requires the creature to brace its large flat paws against the side of the structure and tightly grip against it with the three large sloth-like claws attached to the end of each digit. It may do this with its forelimbs or backlimbs, depending on what position best suits the task at hand.