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What appears to be a secondary thumb is in fact an extension of the wooden wrist bone. A dense, rigid structure, it is primarily used in both defense - such as jabbing predators in their eyes - as well as for spreading an oily, musk-like secretion produced from glands beneath their arms. They coat this "thumb" in the substance and then wipe it along the surfaces of large flora and stones in order to establish the boundaries of their territories, as well as to display their overall health.
The feeding strategy of the '''shroom herder''' is, as its name suggests, a fairly interesting one, even if it is unintentional: while more than willing to graze upon existing populations of [[sapshrooms]] and [[supershrooms]], they will also engage in "farming" them. Once they have established a territory, they will dig a shallow pit and bury within it bits of dead flora and fauna they come across, in order
An additional benefit of these pits is that they quickly start to reek beneath the heat of the midday sun, producing a rancid odor that wards off many would-be predators.
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