Impaladiri

The impaladiri split from its ancestor, the wraith capiri, in Nuke Chaparral. It has grown twice as tall as its ancestor, and to avoid predators, became a fully nocturnal creature, nesting in underground burrows during daytime. It feeds mainly on the gem shrub's spores, which it can not reach with its mouth, so it developed a way to bypass that. Its tail grew longer, and the part that used to be its false jaw prolonged and became a sort of needle, with which it punctures the spores, allowing them to ooze their insides over the gem shrub's bark, where the impaladiri can lick it clean. This impaler consists of iron compounds and muscle tissue, converted into a strong, yet flexible, way to get to the food the impaladiri needs. To get the iron its body now requires, the impaladiri started eating the irontangle, which naturally synthesize this metal. To get to this organism, the impaladiri will use its impaler to broaden the vandriswoop's puddles, and when it encounters an irontangle, it will suck it from the puddle and swallow it whole. It has adapted to eating vandriswoops as well, when it can't find irontangles around its burrow. To dig its burrow, the impaladiri won't use its impaler, but rather its long and muscular legs. Its burrows can be huge and will mostly house the male, female, and about 4 of their offspring, in eggs or after hatching.