Dagger Capiri

The dagger capiri split from its ancestor the rocky capiri and has developed a taste for blood. It is an active hunter, running up to a victim and cutting open its side using the dagger-like ends of its elongated back spines. The beak has a ninety degree angle to its long impaler, giving it a powerful strike that goes deep into the victim. To counterbalance the massive dagger spines the dagger capiris tail has become thicker and longer, it also is spiny to detour any predators attempts to attack from behind. Virtually the only parts left that can change color are the three green crescents on the sail, this ability has very little use beyond showing certain emotions and courtship. The dagger capiri lives in loose family groups that share a territory, there is no particular leader and the group is made up normally of the parents, young, and unpaired adults. These territories are sustained as long as the parent group exists. Sometimes mating pairs stay in one of their birth territories, resulting in an odd grandparent group of the original breeding pair, the two families will eventually have a bloody war over who controls the territory if the grandparents don't die off soon enough. During the breeding season unpaired adult males will mix between territories to search for a mate. During courtship the male will display intricate repeating patterns of colour, this shows mental acuteness to any potential partners in the area, the more complex a pattern, the better chance of being picked.