Mostly Purple Snoa

The mostly purple snoa has a range of adaptations to desert life.

One adaptation is similar to sweating or the phenomenon of vultures urinating on their legs to keep themselves cool. As plents excrete their wastes from their skin, is a sense they sweat urine. (any waste too large to be excreted from the skin is regurgitated) The liquid wastes of a mostly purple snoa are green, like its blood, if to a lesser extent. The green wastes makes its mostly purple skin brownish. Most of its liquid wastes are excreted from the legs, and secondarily from above the eyes. Patches of dried plent-urine above its eyes can make it appear to have doglike eyebrows. Only adult mostly purple snoas have such patches.

When young and small, mostly purple snoas have more surface area in comparison to volume. Therefore, they are better able to lose heat. The adults have less surface area in proportion to volume, so sport specialized structures for removing heat.

The mostly purple snoa has turbinates in its tail, which are more prominent in the adult. The turbinates reduce water loss. The purple color of the mostly purple snoa is from anthocyanins, which protects its DNA from UV light damage. This is especially useful because the mostly purple snoa is active during dawn and dusk, and not only nighttime.

When it rains in the desert, they eat free-living adult keryhs that emerge from wet soil. They may even pick through the excrement of hump-backed xatapurs for any adult keryhs that passed through its digestive system. Sometimes a mostly purple snoa incidentally consumes keryhs eggs. Mostly purple snoas have greater parasite diversity than their ancestor, but usually not heavy parasite loads.