Nolaguru
| Nolaguru | ||
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| (Eocaudagraditherium devortemus) | ||
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| 18/122, Replaced by descendant | ||
| Information | ||
| Creator | Mnidjm Other | |
| Week/Generation | 18/120 | |
| Habitat | Huggs Temperate Rainforest | |
| Size | 28 cm Tall | |
| Primary Mobility | Unknown | |
| Support | Endoskeleton (Jointed Wood) | |
| Diet | Frugivore (Sweetfruit Pondroot, Temperate Spade-Leaf, Beribarbos, Tannenbaum Carnofern, Oval-Trunk Fruitail, Forest Demonshroom, Grailshroom) | |
| Respiration | Active (Lungs) | |
| Thermoregulation | Endotherm | |
| Reproduction | Sexual, Live birth, two sexes | |
| Taxonomy | ||
| Domain Superkingdom Kingdom Subkingdom Phylum Class Subclass Order Family Genus Species | Eukaryota Viridisagania Mancerxa Phytozoa (info) Chloropodia (info) Phyllauria (info) Xylodonta (info) Neoheteroures Murimancerxidae Eocaudagraditherium Eocaudagraditherium devortemus | |
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The nolaguru have replaced their ancestor in the Huggs Temperate Rainforest. They have doubled in size and evolved a facultative upright posture. While they have lost the ability to swim and are now comparatively poor climbers, this newer body plan allows them to hop up to twice their body height, a trait they use for foraging fruits from native flora and evade predators like black gringlos or ghastrett. In addition to their more modified hindlegs their tails have also specialized, growing larger to not only provide balance when upright but can even act as a third limb. If threatened and unable to flee, they will kick with their back legs, using their tail to keep themselves upright. When unable to find readily available fruits, they will utilize their much improve dentition and bite force to attempt to gnaw at the flora to bring it down. If this proves unsuccessful, they will attempt to search for larger herbivores, piggybacking off of them to grab scraps loosened by them or even hopping on them to reach the fruit, though this is not without risk. Their new hopping bipedalism allows them to quickly cover farther distances than their ancestors, and their freed front limbs are now utilized to carry foraged fruit back to their group, which is referred to as a "feld".
They typical feld will consist of 2 to 7 mating pairs, their young, older nolaguru that have aged past reproduction. Within these groups, females that are not currently breeding and older members of both sexes assist in raising the offspring of others. Leadership of the feld is determined annually through competitive engagements among males, with the victors having first choice at a mate, forming the "dominant" breeding pair. These combats are rarely lethal, typically meant as shows of strength or skill to impress females or will be displays of preferred traits, such as large tail size and strength being attractive qualities. Dominant pairs are responsible for protecting the young and elderly, keeping watch for predators while the others forage for food to bring back. This arraignment tends to lead to the dominant pair's young getting preferential treatment and attention, resulting to them being the most likely to survive that season and reproduce. When the victor chooses his mate, the others will pair off and will forage this season, though pregnant females will stay within the safety of the feld when near term. Nolagurus are prolific breeders, producing approximately 10 to 12 offspring per year, leading to felds often being well above 50 individuals. However, the survival rate of these offspring is low, with most not surviving past their first year due to predation. Once the next breeding season comes around the dominant male, if still the previous victor, will choose a different female from last season. If the group is too large or two males are too evenly matched as to risk injury, the group will split and form new felds so as to not compete. Individuals not joined to a feld will look for smaller felds to join and will act as caretaker until the next breeding season, which is readily accepted by the feld as it means more protection for the offspring. If an adult is left without a partner after pairing or it is their first breeding season after reaching maturity, they will either stay with the group or leave to find a different one, with newly mature individuals and especially males more often than not favoring the later.
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