EVOLUTION ATTEMPTS: Better lungs- 5, Attach young to bubblegrove- 3, Better movement- 6, Better hearing- 5, Proof against dehydration- 5+1=6
(they love you again. minus attaching something to a bubblegrove)
The all-terrain flapper is a highly successful animal in the river systems it inhabits. The majority of new species of flapper that evolved became herbivores, feeding on skyglobes in the sky or on the greenweed plains below. This flapper, though, is a predator of pretty much anything that's close enough in size. It has a more aerodynamic shape, two claws on its back descended from its upper fins, and two legs on its underside that lets it travel on land to hunt slitherers. Its lungs have joined into a single horseshoe-shape, letting it keep a constant flow of air through them, like a bird's lungs. It has sensitive hearing to detect animals pushing through the foliage or flapping their wings. Like before, they still live in groups. A pack of flappers and their guidelings hunting a pinhead flapper is one of the most awe-inspiring spectacles the planet has to offer. Thick scales prevent it from dehydrating.
After numerous incidents of baby hives falling off while hanging onto their prospective flapper, the guidelings are now able to glide. The hives are still unable to move out of the water, though.
Our prey is beginning to synchronise its electric sense with ours, effectively jamming our vision. It is also jamming our pressure sense with frilled edges to their wings and a humming noise.This, obviously, causes problems.
GENERATION 17:
All-terrain flapper
A murky green-and-brown tassled fish-like animal that hunts around the riverplains. They swim with their powerful tails and use their fanged tentacles to attack and kill their prey. They can fly. They grow up to 25 centimetres long, and their offspring are called tentaclets. They use two claws on their back to snatch prey from the ground or air.
SENSES: It has a sense of touch that lets it figure out if it's touching food, and an extremely good sense of smell/taste. Symbiotic guidelings help it find live prey. A keen electrical sense lets it find creatures that are close to it, and it can feel vibrations in the water from moving creatures. Its hearing is superb.
REPRODUCTION: It lets out male cells when they meet a mate they approve of, and growths grow inside of the womb. Tentaclets follow their mother until they can be dropped off at their hive. They eat mucus that the hive creates and, when they are large enough, find a suitable guideling to make a nest with.
MOVEMENT: They move by swimming like a fish. Sacs of carbon dioxide keep them buoyant. They also have jets which also function as their gills, which they use to make fine movement. They fly by using their large pectoral fins as wings and their thorachic fins as engines. They have two legs on their underside.
EATING: It impales small animals and digests them by drawing them into the guts. They are able to prey on fast swimmers, and they use venom. Most of their food is from grazing worms and the dense vegetation. Other prey include land-dwelling spearfaced worms (slitherers) and other flappers.
PREDATION: We are mostly unpredated on the land. In the river, larger spearfaced worms are still moving in.
COMPETITION: Dwarf spearfaces are the main competition in the water, but we are dominant on land and in the air.
ENVIRONMENT: An overgrown lake and river. We are the dominant species in the lake, and a highly effective one in the river.
HOME TERRITORY: Massive overgrown lake, Wide river, Greenweed plain
NEARBY ENVIRONMENTS: muddy estuary, fast-flowing river
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