Curazzell

While most, if not all, of Fermi Island's inhabitants are slow moving, sluggish creatures, the curazzell has instead followed a different path. Evolving into a thinner, lankier form with pronounced skeletal features and bony crests, it has become a fast, mobile beast that uses its speed to cross the vast expanses of barren deserts and rocky terrain with ease in search of new feeding grounds. Forming loose herds, they have become a common sight on the island.

One of the adaptions this species has evolved is a speckled throat sac, not entirely unlike the dewlaps of their distant ancestors, that is capable of being expanded with air. This creates an impressive sight, one commonly used by males as a form of intimidation between one another. The sac also serves as a vocal tool, for as air is forced out of it, these creatures can produce a wide range of croaks, peeps, and other various sounds, all for the sake of communication. This has helped them to maintain social structures within their makeshift herds, creating order and creating the groundwork for future social development.

Males are readily identifiable from the females by their much more pronounced bony crests and the presence of a fold of skin hanging off their underbellies. Of bright coloration, they are flushed with blood to further increase this in order to help aid them in their courtship displays.

Young are spawned in open pools alongside those of other herd matings. Not all will survive, as they receive no parental care, but those that do will eventually undergo metamorphosis and enter their adult phase, after which they will go on to form herds of their own.