Rainforest Slitherworm

The rainforest slitherworm replaced its ancestor the slitherworm. Its pink and purple coloring help it hide within the purple and pink flora. It is an ambush predator and will wait for food to come by. It will hide in trees or underbrush waiting for prey to pass by. They are not above scavenging or eating the eggs either.

It keeps watch with its 3 eyes as well as feeling vibrations in the ground with its body. Behind their heads are their blue "air-gills". They are blue in color because they have blue copper blood like all anipedia species. Since they are cold-blooded they must regulate their heat by either sunning themselves or cooling in the shade. In the tropical rainforest they most active due to its high temperature and humidity which warm its blood and keeps its "air-gills" moist.

They can also last for weeks without food. They are constantly growing and will frequently shed their exoskeletons. When attacking prey they will bite it with their 4 jawed mouths and then use their bodies to constrict and crush it prey. They eat their prey whole and if threatened will regurgitate up their meal in order to escape faster.

They make their own nests underground and will lay hard shelled eggs. They will mate in the spring at the small area of land where Barlowe and Dixon meet. This massive mating migration is so they can find all 3 genders of their species. The 3 genders are; male who gives the sperm, the female who gives the egg and the third gender who gives the hormone that allows the sperm into the egg. Thus both the male and the third gender have to mate with the female in order for fertilization to occur.