River Capiri

The river capiri split from its ancestor the rocky capiri and now inhabits Ittiz River. Its most noticeable adaptation is a large magenta dewlap. This is used for mating purposes along with its back sail. During courting, the male capiri will hold his head up high displaying the dewlap and slowly pulsate blue circles on his sail. The Female also has a dewlap, but it doesn’t really serve a purpose.

Another major adaptation of the river capiri is the diet. It eats cnidusa as a main food source. The capiris liver is specially adapted to dump Iron if there is an excess amount in its system. The capiri also has a longer neck so that it can wade deeper into the water to find more food.

The river capiri live in herds of about 20-30. The males in the herd love to play fight by ramming each others heads, which also impresses the females. The herd communicates in the same way as their ancestors, by pulsating circles on their sails, but the colors and speed mean different things. As mentioned before, blue in slow cycles is to attract a mate, but red in quick cycles means food, green in slow cycles means relaxed, and yellow in quick cycles means danger. The danger one is rarely used because there are no natural predators of the river capiri as of now.