Pudgy Ketter

The pudgy ketter split from its ancestor. It moved with the stoutplage to the colder southern biomes. Because it has moved to a colder climate, it has gained a layer of fat on its body for warmth; its ears have decreased in size to help prevent heat loss.

It has become more bipedal, its back legs getting stronger while its front legs getting weaker. By combining its better hopping power with its ancestor’s leaf-gliding technique, it can get around much faster, especially in large tracts of snow.

It has developed a mutual relationship with the stoutplage. The pudgy ketter not only uses the stoutplage as a food source, but also for shelter. When the stoutplage produces fruit, the pudgy ketter is the primary pollinator and herbivore. In order to keep their stoutplages clean, these ketters will journey a short distance (usually about a meter) from their “home” stoutplage to excrete. Thus they have helped spread the stoutplage by spreading the seeds. When they are unable to get stoutplage fruit/sap, they will use photosynthesis, going up to the upper parts of their stoutplage to do so.

An individual lives for about 5 years, reaching maturity at 1 year. They mate for life; females give birth to 1 to 2 babies every half year. Babies are born with smaller leaves and weaker limbs, and so are dependent on their parents, who will provide regurgitate stoutplage fruit and/or sap for the first few weeks until they are strong enough to get around; when food is scarce they will bring their babies up to photosynthesize. When the young reach maturity they will travel away from their parent’s stoutplage to find their own homes, they can tell which stoutplages are occupied by tooting with their butt-nostril. Males tend leave first; they will find themselves a stoutplage and then try to attract passerby females with hopping and tooting displays, if the female is impressed she will mate with him.