Salt Phlyer

The salt phlyer split from its ancestor who lived in BioCat River and migrated into Chum Salt Flats as there was little competition for the food. Although competition is low, life in the salt flats is far from easy. To cope with the extremely harsh conditions they now give birth to multiple offspring increasing the chance that some will reach adulthood. The female will tend to the young, they will stay with the mother for two months before leaving to fend for themselves, they reach sexual maturity after only three months. The male will not participate in the raising of the young, as soon as the male has mated he will start looking for the next female which he can mate with. The mating ritual is quite simple, the male display his beak-crest to impress the female and if there are more then one male competing for the female the one with the largest crest wins, or the one with the most impressive tail colouration. They are no longer "night-blind" as they now spend a lot of time during the evening to search for food. They eat chum twine whenever they come across them but their main food source is the thick trunked quilbil. Not only do they get all the food and water they need from the thick trunked quilbil but also protection from the heat of the sun during the day. The beak of the salt phlyer has evolved so that it can dig into the trunk of the thick trunked quilbil and use the trunk as shelter. They also have evolved a thick mucus like substance within their tail breath tube that will capture most of the salt they breath in which then allows the salt phlyer to excrete the salt.They are very conservative of their energy, they never walk against the wind when it can be helped and they always try to keep a fat reserve on their body. The salt phylers active lifestyle results in an extremely high metabolism and relatively short life span. They can't fly but they can glide on a strong wind, they can use this ability to get away from the newly evolved predator, the ambush ghastrett.