Kroque

The kroque split from its ancestor the river shoveltail. It has gotten larger and thus could eat larger prey. It is an ambush predator and will wait until prey gets close enough and will bite them with its front teeth. Its tail muscles have gotten even stronger while its back legs have gotten weaker and are more ore less useless. Even its front fins have gotten more streamline for faster swimming.

It is mostly aquatic but females will come up to shore and lay their eggs in the sand and bury them. When the babies hatch they race into the water to avoid any creatures that might want to eat them. However adults are not above cannibalizing on the smaller juveniles. They are now more solitary creatures and no longer make communal dams. They only meet to mate or during feeding frenzy when large herd cross the river. The larger they get the bigger the prey they will eat. Thus young kroque will eat things like riverundi and river tailhoppers while the adults will eat creatures like the large river chut and snorkelcrest.

Females are slightly larger than males. They have very poor eyesight and must communicate through touch and vibration during mating. They will use their tail to splash the surface of the water. Since they are deaf they cannot hear the splashes but feel the vibrations on their bodies. Thus they can tell the difference between a struggling creature and a healthy one and will attack the weaker one first.