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Much like their ancestors, the indigallop has a frill on both sexes, with males having bright colors on said frill to help attract mates. Males also not only have a larger cheek spike than females, but also have developed a second cheek spike. Unlike their ancestors, however, males do not use these spikes to fight each other and instead only use the four cheek spikes to show their health, age, and overall fitness to mates or rivals. While females lack the second pair of cheek spikes and their only pair of cheek spikes are slightly smaller, both sexes do occasionally use these spikes to gore an attacker from the side so it has become larger overall than their ancestor.
As the indigallop travels in herds that wander around the landscape as they spend most of their time feeding and watching out for danger, youngsters need to be able to keep up from the beginning. Because of this, female indigallops only typically give birth to one youngster at a time. Though they occasionally give birth to twins, one often is underdeveloped and so only one of them usually survives to adulthood. By having less young overall, the indigallop can give the calf more time and resources to develop, so they can run with the mother within a few minutes after being born. Male indigallops spend less time caring for one individual female and her calf since the baby is more developed and thus needs less intensive care and so they now spend more of their time guarding a small group of females overall. The herds of an indigallop can be relatively defined as an aggregation of small groups which in turn consist of a sexually mature male guarding his group of females and their young. Male indigallops will tolerate one another in these herds as long as none of them try to make a move on the
Due to their adaptations for speed, better defenses like weapons and camouflage, and their more generalistic diet, the indigallop has caused the frilled greenscale to decline in the areas they coexist until they eventually died out. Now the frilled greenscale only persists in the High Deserts of Vivus, where the indigallop does not live due to the arid landscape not providing enough flora for them to make a living. The indigallop also travels into the Vivus Alpine during the warm summer months to take advantage of abundant flora growth such as pioneeroots and crystal swordgrass, but they must head back down into neighboring biomes when the alpine winter arrives since they would not survive the bitter cold it brings with it.
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