Harnessback
| Harnessback | ||
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| (Skitterus espheni) | ||
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| Information | ||
| Creator | Hydromancerx Other | |
| Week/Generation | 25/156 | |
| Habitat | Dass Temperate Beach, Dixon Temperate Woodland, Dixon Boreal, Dixon Chaparral, Dixon Rocky, Dixon Plains, Dixon High Grasslands | |
| Size | 80 cm long | |
| Primary Mobility | Unknown | |
| Support | Endoskeleton (Chitin) | |
| Diet | Carnivore (Serpmander, Xatakpa, Jlindohve, Marine Tamow, Tilecorn, Rainforest Buttpiper, Buttpiper, Tigmow, Ouranocorn, Dusty Spelunkhoe, Xatazelle, Pickaxe Tamow, Desert Tilecorn, Gracilxata, Leafplate), Scavenger | |
| Respiration | Active (Microlungs) | |
| Thermoregulation | Endotherm (Feathers) | |
| Reproduction | Sexual, Hard-Shelled Eggs, Two Sexes | |
| Taxonomy | ||
| Domain Kingdom Subkingdom Phylum Clade Subphylum Superclass Class Clade Subclass Order Suborder Family Genus Species | Eukaryota Binucleozoa Symbiovermes (info) Thoracocephalia Coluripoda Vermitheria (info) Cephalischia (info) Dromeodonta Eudromeodonta Neodromeodonta Placopulmonates Skitteriformes Skitteridae Skitterus Skitterus espheni | |
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The harnessback replaced its ancestor, the spotted sauceback. With so many herbivores around it has become a full carnivore and has grown larger. It is an opportunist with a wide and varied diet of different prey. They are smart, quick and hunt in pack of 5 to 10 members. With numbers they can share kills with the pack or work together to take down larger prey.
On their backs they have a set of spinal plates much like their distant ancestors. The front plate protects its brain like all saucebacks, however the ones behind now house more advanced lungs. These lungs allow it to run down prey without getting out of breath. Each lung can take turns breathing or work together in super charged sprints. Their hearing has also improved to take advantages of this increased oxygen output.
Their tusks now act more like a beak in that it can grasp onto prey as its mouth full of teeth rip out chunks of meat or even swallow prey whole. Like saucebacks they are blind and use echolocation to see. Thus they can hunt just as well in the day as the night. While not completely nocturnal they take advantage of the darkness when they can. Their biggest competition are stride sauceback, roofback and to a lesser extant the tigmow (which they will eat).
The pack build communal nests in which the larva live in. Larva they are basically helpless and look like grubs for the first few weeks. Once they grow their legs and feathers they look much more like a sauceback. Parents regurgitate food for their offspring in the nest, thus making it easier to eat.