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The sitting dundi is very much like a lazy Manx cat/bear hybrid, which sits in one spot all day and only moves from that spot to eat and excrete. This is untrue; as a plent, the sitting dundi "sweats" its wastes from its skin, and regurgitates whatever cannot be excreted. Thus, it never has to move to excrete. |
The '''sitting dundi''' is very much like a lazy Manx cat/bear hybrid, which sits in one spot all day and only moves from that spot to eat and excrete. This is untrue; as a plent, the sitting dundi "sweats" its wastes from its skin, and regurgitates whatever cannot be excreted. Thus, it never has to move to excrete. |
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This behavior is actually advantageous. Its "sweating" helps to keep it cool if its spot is in direct sunlight, and its regurgitated waste is used to defend itself. The indigestible materials in its diet, such as dartir horns and wing membranes, xenobees' spikes, and cloudswarmer cellulose are assembled in golf-ball-sized pellets and bound with a bodily fluid. A thin, varnish-like shell is applied around the pellet, making it almost totally spherical. |
This behavior is actually advantageous. Its "sweating" helps to keep it cool if its spot is in direct sunlight, and its regurgitated waste is used to defend itself. The indigestible materials in its diet, such as [[dartirs|dartir]] horns and wing membranes, [[xenobees]]' spikes, and [[cloudswarmers|cloudswarmer]] cellulose are assembled in golf-ball-sized pellets and bound with a bodily fluid. A thin, varnish-like shell is applied around the pellet, making it almost totally spherical. |
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These "hornballs", to compare it to cats' hairballs, is launched at the assailant's mouth. If the assailant's mouth is open and the hornball lodges inside, the hornball may momentarily distract the assailant in the following ways: the strong, fermented or fecal flavor of the varnish may disgust the target, the difficulty of spitting out the sizable hornball causes the target to focus on removing it, rather than preying on the sitting dundi, or, if the hornball is in the throat, the target is too preoccupied trying to save itself from choking on the object. |
These "hornballs", to compare it to cats' hairballs, is launched at the assailant's mouth. If the assailant's mouth is open and the hornball lodges inside, the hornball may momentarily distract the assailant in the following ways: the strong, fermented or fecal flavor of the varnish may disgust the target, the difficulty of spitting out the sizable hornball causes the target to focus on removing it, rather than preying on the sitting dundi, or, if the hornball is in the throat, the target is too preoccupied trying to save itself from choking on the object. |
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Their diet of organisms with a global distribution means they also have a wide range. Some populations even live on the Darwin coast and the lower parts of the South Darwin Rocky environment. |
Their diet of organisms with a global distribution means they also have a wide range. Some populations even live on the Darwin coast and the lower parts of the [[South Darwin Rocky]] environment. |
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