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The species has thick, shaggy feathery coats, which become still longer as winter approaches. Its chest is deeper than its ancestor's, allowing greater capacity for its intestines, and therefore the ability to extract nutrition from even tough flora material. Its feathers are longer and shaggier around its neck and chest, exaggerating its slightly top-heavy proportions.

Falsegloxes will eat almost any kind of flora tissue, even if it's thorny, tough, acidic, bitter, odd-tasting, or mildly poisonous. The acidic taste of [[Alpine Hedgelog]] fruits do not deter it at all, and it simply ignores any dermatitis from the rare snack of [[Alpine Cirrus~~|Alpine Cirruses~~]], like a human eating fresh pineapple ignoring the sting of the fruit's enzymes. Oddly, it has no interest in eating [[Pagoda Crystal~~|Pagoda Crystals~~]]. Their appetites are so broad they will happily eat [[Supershrooms]] or [[Sapshrooms]], although they rarely comprise a significant part of its diet because of its sheer size and those species not as common and easy to acquire as other flora. Falsegloxes eat twigs, shoots, and saplings of Alpine Hedgelogs, [[Frigid Vesuvianite~~|Frigid Vesuvianites~~]], [[Vesuvianite Tree|Vesuvianite trees]], and [[Towering Grovecrystal~~|Towering Grovecrystals~~]]. In the winter, Falsegloxes will even gnaw on the trunks of its chosen boreal tree species to access more tender layers inside. Much like Earth's deer, it can girdle trees in this way, seriously hindering their survival. In leaner years, the effects of Falsegloxes are obvious in the early spring: nearly all the trees growing in the upper altitudes of Drake Boreal are girdled, killed, or look chewed on up to a certain height, except for Pagoda Crystals. Were it not for their reduced appetites during the first two weeks of laying eggs, incubating young, and feeding their offspring, their appetites might be a bigger threat to Alpine Hedgelogs, a necessary shelter for their young.

Falsegloxes will eat almost any kind of flora tissue, even if it's thorny, tough, acidic, bitter, odd-tasting, or mildly poisonous. The acidic taste of [[Alpine Hedgelog]] fruits do not deter it at all, and it simply ignores any dermatitis from the rare snack of [[Alpine Cirrus]]es, like a human eating fresh pineapple ignoring the sting of the fruit's enzymes. Oddly, it has no interest in eating [[Pagoda Crystal]]s. Their appetites are so broad they will happily eat [[Supershrooms]] or [[Sapshrooms]], although they rarely comprise a significant part of its diet because of its sheer size and those species not as common and easy to acquire as other flora. Falsegloxes eat twigs, shoots, and saplings of Alpine Hedgelogs, [[Frigid Vesuvianite]]s, [[Vesuvianite Tree|Vesuvianite trees]], and [[Towering Grovecrystal]]s. In the winter, Falsegloxes will even gnaw on the trunks of its chosen boreal tree species to access more tender layers inside. Much like Earth's deer, it can girdle trees in this way, seriously hindering their survival. In leaner years, the effects of Falsegloxes are obvious in the early spring: nearly all the trees growing in the upper altitudes of Drake Boreal are girdled, killed, or look chewed on up to a certain height, except for Pagoda Crystals. Were it not for their reduced appetites during the first two weeks of laying eggs, incubating young, and feeding their offspring, their appetites might be a bigger threat to Alpine Hedgelogs, a necessary shelter for their young.

==Reproduction & Maturation==

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==Anti-Predator Adaptations==

As a large herbivore, it is unable to limit itself only to habitats dominated by particular flora. Consequently, its dark grey coat is a compromise between its habitat’s frozen brown soil, dark bluish-green and very dark green [[Larachoy~~|Larachoys~~]], dark purple Alpine Hedgelogs, and dark brown Alpine Cirruses.

As a large herbivore, it is unable to limit itself only to habitats dominated by particular flora. Consequently, its dark grey coat is a compromise between its habitat’s frozen brown soil, dark bluish-green and very dark green [[Larachoy]]s, dark purple Alpine Hedgelogs, and dark brown Alpine Cirruses.

Their thick feathers and the layer of fat along their "necks" (technically sensory proboscises) and chests offer a degree of protection against shallow injuries to these vulnerable locations.

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 The species has thick, shaggy feathery coats, which become still longer as winter approaches. Its chest is deeper than its ancestor's, allowing greater capacity for its intestines, and therefore the ability to extract nutrition from even tough flora material. Its feathers are longer and shaggier around its neck and chest, exaggerating its slightly top-heavy proportions.
-Falsegloxes will eat almost any kind of flora tissue, even if it's thorny, tough, acidic, bitter, odd-tasting, or mildly poisonous. The acidic taste of [[Alpine Hedgelog]] fruits do not deter it at all, and it simply ignores any dermatitis from the rare snack of [[Alpine Cirrus|Alpine Cirruses]], like a human eating fresh pineapple ignoring the sting of the fruit's enzymes. Oddly, it has no interest in eating [[Pagoda Crystal|Pagoda Crystals]]. Their appetites are so broad they will happily eat [[Supershrooms]] or [[Sapshrooms]], although they rarely comprise a significant part of its diet because of its sheer size and those species not as common and easy to acquire as other flora. Falsegloxes eat twigs, shoots, and saplings of Alpine Hedgelogs, [[Frigid Vesuvianite|Frigid Vesuvianites]], [[Vesuvianite Tree|Vesuvianite trees]], and [[Towering Grovecrystal|Towering Grovecrystals]]. In the winter, Falsegloxes will even gnaw on the trunks of its chosen boreal tree species to access more tender layers inside. Much like Earth's deer, it can girdle trees in this way, seriously hindering their survival. In leaner years, the effects of Falsegloxes are obvious in the early spring: nearly all the trees growing in the upper altitudes of Drake Boreal are girdled, killed, or look chewed on up to a certain height, except for Pagoda Crystals. Were it not for their reduced appetites during the first two weeks of laying eggs, incubating young, and feeding their offspring, their appetites might be a bigger threat to Alpine Hedgelogs, a necessary shelter for their young.
+Falsegloxes will eat almost any kind of flora tissue, even if it's thorny, tough, acidic, bitter, odd-tasting, or mildly poisonous. The acidic taste of [[Alpine Hedgelog]] fruits do not deter it at all, and it simply ignores any dermatitis from the rare snack of [[Alpine Cirrus]]es, like a human eating fresh pineapple ignoring the sting of the fruit's enzymes. Oddly, it has no interest in eating [[Pagoda Crystal]]s. Their appetites are so broad they will happily eat [[Supershrooms]] or [[Sapshrooms]], although they rarely comprise a significant part of its diet because of its sheer size and those species not as common and easy to acquire as other flora. Falsegloxes eat twigs, shoots, and saplings of Alpine Hedgelogs, [[Frigid Vesuvianite]]s, [[Vesuvianite Tree|Vesuvianite trees]], and [[Towering Grovecrystal]]s. In the winter, Falsegloxes will even gnaw on the trunks of its chosen boreal tree species to access more tender layers inside. Much like Earth's deer, it can girdle trees in this way, seriously hindering their survival. In leaner years, the effects of Falsegloxes are obvious in the early spring: nearly all the trees growing in the upper altitudes of Drake Boreal are girdled, killed, or look chewed on up to a certain height, except for Pagoda Crystals. Were it not for their reduced appetites during the first two weeks of laying eggs, incubating young, and feeding their offspring, their appetites might be a bigger threat to Alpine Hedgelogs, a necessary shelter for their young.
 ==Reproduction & Maturation==
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 ==Anti-Predator Adaptations==
-As a large herbivore, it is unable to limit itself only to habitats dominated by particular flora. Consequently, its dark grey coat is a compromise between its habitat’s frozen brown soil, dark bluish-green and very dark green [[Larachoy|Larachoys]], dark purple Alpine Hedgelogs, and dark brown Alpine Cirruses.
+As a large herbivore, it is unable to limit itself only to habitats dominated by particular flora. Consequently, its dark grey coat is a compromise between its habitat’s frozen brown soil, dark bluish-green and very dark green [[Larachoy]]s, dark purple Alpine Hedgelogs, and dark brown Alpine Cirruses.
 Their thick feathers and the layer of fat along their "necks" (technically sensory proboscises) and chests offer a degree of protection against shallow injuries to these vulnerable locations.

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