Springneck

The springneck split from its ancestor, the monofoot, and moved to Darwin Tropical Rainforest. Its coloration became more like the trunkplage's color, to be able to hide from predators in its thick bushes. It has developed a small wooden bone on its head, just beneath the ears. This bone is hollow and filled half way with water. It uses this bone to keep its body balanced. Two of its eyes now face backwards, to be able to see predators gaining up on it. Its ears lengthened and broadened, to be able to hear better in the deep forest. To be able to get to the best quilbil leaves, its hands now take the shape of a sharp prowler with which it cuts and digs at the flora. It uses the rainforest trunkplage as a base for its nest, using its leaves and those of its ancestor, the trunkplage as building material. Each nest will hold a female and 3 to 4 young, sometimes in various stages of development. The males do not build nests as they are moving from one rainforest trunkplage to another, searching for a suitable female in heat. It is extremely agile and can jump to the rainforest trunkplage's full height, thus being able to get to the youngest, and better tasting, leaves.