Tower Diveskunik
| Tower Diveskunik | ||
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| (Triscelimancerxia pomumemanio) | ||
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| 22/?, unknown cause | ||
| Information | ||
| Creator | Clarke Other | |
| Week/Generation | 21/137 | |
| Habitat | Drake Temperate Rainforest, Drake Taiga, Slarti River | |
| Size | 30 cm Tall | |
| Primary Mobility | Unknown | |
| Support | Unknown | |
| Diet | Frugivore (Glass Tower), Filter-Feeder (Cryodome Hydroutine), Photosynthesis | |
| Respiration | Active (Lungs, Gill Chamber) | |
| Thermoregulation | Mesotherm | |
| Reproduction | Sexual, Spawning, Two Sexes | |
| Taxonomy | ||
| Domain Superkingdom Kingdom Subkingdom Phylum Class Superorder Order Family Genus Species | Eukaryota Viridisagania Mancerxa Phytozoa (info) Phylloichthyia (info) Skunikomorpha Skunikia Euskunikia Triscelimancerxidae Triscelimancerxia Triscelimancerxia pomumemanio | |
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The tower diveskunik split from its ancestor, the diveskunik. As competition for the remaining cryobowls left over after larger relatives had claimed them. Some found that they were perfectly suited for life pollinating the cryobowls in Drake Taiga, and as some box cryobowl started their evolution into glass towers, the diveskuniks followed and became tower diveskuniks.
To reach the large "fruit" on top of the male cryobowls easily, the diveskuniks have had to change their body shape rather dramatically. A mutation early on in their evolution has caused them to evolve asymmetry, with the limbs on their left side of their body shifting forward slightly. The limbs have specialized into three types. The bottom three are focused on holding the majority of the diveskunik's weight, helping it walk and hold an upright posture. The next to limbs have adapted to grasp on to the glass towers for stability whilst "picking" the fruit with its front-most limb, which has grown flat and solid to help spoon out and grasp chunks of fruit. Its solid cellulose patches have become more strong, and now cover most of its bottom five limbs to help support its increased size.
They have also evolved more advanced reproductive practices to help increase survival rates of young. Once the females have accumulated enough fat, she will choose a glass tower with a suitable amount of female glass towers surrounding the base, and inject her genetic material into one of the female plants. Males move around the forests and regurgitate their genetic material into the ones that the females have. Two males will often compete for a female with a large glass tower, using their grasping appendage as a club to try to break the other's eye-stalk. The female diveskunik will sit over the female plant, until the larva mature enough to move out of the nest, although they still rely on their mother's help to survive until they are large enough to reach the fruits on their own.
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