Geistrat



The norats of the Krakow Rocky and Plains eventually adapted themselves into an offshoot of the species, becoming known as geistrats. Unlike their predecessors, the geistrats' lungs are now significantly larger, and are able to be used in such a way as to inflate their form in order to make themselves bigger to hopefully scare off predators. To aid in this effect, they have also obtained a ghostly white coloring, with three black markings, and their front legs are now significantly shorter than their back legs. Their eyes have also obtained a dark reddish tint, which helps aid in their pseudo-fearsomeness.

When they feel threatened, they will suck in large amounts of air to inflate themselves, while at the same time bending their front legs and extending their hind legs into a sort of four-legged bowing position. This shows off their backside, which with the three markings, form a frightful visage of some unknown creature. They now can also produce a wailing noise that comes out of their posterior ventilation shaft (aka the butt-nostril) to make them seem even more vicious. If lucky, this will scare off their foes. If not, they will try and high-tail it back to their dens for protection.

They also now build their family colonies underneath graveyard trees in the Krakow Rocky, although the geistrats upon the Plains continue to build colonies underground in small burrows. Family units are generally between 5 and 12 individuals. Those geistrats have it somewhat easier than those on the plains, as their den-burrows are underneath strong graveyard trees, and they can feed on graveyard fruit which fall off the branches. However, the two locations' populations are in fact one species, and they have just adapted slightly different strategies in terms of housing.

With their adaptations, they have begun to out-survive the norats in their local habitats; although they did not completely replace them in the plains, those norats who survived in the rockies eventually moved back into the Huggs Temperate Forest, leaving the Krakow Rocky to be inhabited by the geistrat alone, while the Krakow Plains are now shared by both the norat and geistrat populations.