Stubhead Bounder

The stubhead bounder split from its ancestor, the thornhead bounder. They still eat glass flora like their ancestors but have a broader diet due to the environment they live in. The large, blunt horn on the top of its head acts as a form of defence, when predators approach, groups of stubhead bounders lower their heads and point their horns towards the attacker, if the predator does not retreat they run at high speeds towards them, ramming their horns into the attacker continuously, in hopes of wounding it before running off.

They also use their horns during mating season, females fight for the affection of a larger male, once a female is victorious they use their nostrils to produce elaborate tunes to court the male. Females often looks for males with more vibrant purple spots and larger horns. Each male breeds with 5-7 females during the mating season. During the gestation period of around 7-8 months, females will continue to forage and travel with the herd, generally a female will produce between 1-3 offspring. Once born, females mate again with a different male than before.

In order to reach the chambers produced by obsidibombs, groups of stubhead bounders all ram their horns into the trunks of obsidibomb, eventually causing the chambers to detach and fall to the ground, during the mating season; males do this to display their strength and award the victorious female with the chambers before mating.