Xatakpark

The xatakpark is named such because it is a descendant of the xatakpa and resembles a "parkour goat" in its ability to scale surfaces. It is never found far from a sansheh, which it uses as a kind of ladder to reach food. Xatakparks usually climb a sansheh's feet, using the thick black ridges as "footholds." However, a xatakpark may also climb a sansheh from the tail if the sansheh is standing with its tail. Xatakparks' favorite spot is between the ears of a sansheh. When the sansheh is feeding on an obsidibomb's leaves, the xatakpark between its ears can easily leap onto the top of an obsidibomb and eat its "fruit." Xatakparks can see, but rely mostly on their senses of hearing and smell. They use echolocation, but only to the extent of an Earth shrew, rather than a bat or even its far ancestor, the river tailhopper. Diet It typically eats plants in the Negrocaeus and Negrosolis genera. Though not all plants in these genera are found in its natural range, in laboratory conditions the xatakpark will eat any member of those genera. A xatakpark will also eat the waste of a sansheh, especially the waste of the sansheh it typically rides. When eating the waste of a sansheh, it prefers to eat the parts with more intact leaves. This behavior is especially common in the Barlowe Temperate Rainforest and Barlowe Temperate Woodland populations, for in the Anguan Temperate Beach biome, the xatakpark acquires more salt from its diet. Sansheh waste provides enough dietary Vitamin K that there is less pressure for the xatakpark to synthesize Vitamin K on its own. Consequently, it produces less Vitamin K. The amount it produces on its own is not enough to maintain normal function. Predators Associating with a sansheh protects it from its predators. Its predators include: Spotted saucebacks, which eat xatakpark young, Tyrant gossalizard, Rainforest gossalizard and Woodland gossalizard. If it spots a tyrant or rainforest gossalizard---which can kill sanshehs---it will bellow. It does not need to recognize that the gossalizards are a threat to its sansheh to bellow. It bellows because those gossalizards are a threat to itself. In laboratory conditions, it may mistakenly bellow when spotting a harmless gossalizard.