EVOLUTION ATTEMPTS: Echolocation- 2+1=3, Intelligence- 3+2=5, Communication between pack- 5+1=6, SNIPAH NEUROTOXIN- 2+2=4, guideling milk- 5, Change frequency- 3
(seems that the random number gods don't like you today.)
The pack flapper is a highly social species of flapper. These animals coordinate their hunts with expert precision, using fields of electricity, loud calls and infrasound and ultrasound to communicate. The ultrasound also gives it the ability to echolocate. The jets on its side can now build the neurotoxin to a high pressure, before 'sneezing' it out. It usually ends up as a spray, but it gives at least a little precision. However, this has hindered its breathing ability in the water, and the animal generally stays in the air now.
Hives are still underwater. The guidelings are now expert gliders, and can easily find their way back to the hive. The cattle caste, however, is now able to produce fatty globs from its mouth, so it can continue to grow without having to be eaten.
The land below us is continuing to evolve. Herbivores are growing, carnivores are growing, and plants are growing. The carnivorous spearfaced worms are now being pushed into smaller niches by the strong-boned, strong-jawed leggedgrinder, a powerful predator.
GENERATION 18:
Pack flapper
A murky green-and-brown tassled fish-like animal that hunts around the greenplains. They use their fanged tentacles to attack and kill their prey. They can fly. They grow up to 30 centimetres long, and their offspring are called tentaclets. They use two claws on their back to snatch prey from the ground or air.
SENSES: It has a sense of touch that lets it figure out if it's touching food, and an extremely good sense of smell/taste. Symbiotic guidelings help it find live prey. A keen electrical sense lets it find creatures that are close to it, and it can feel vibrations in the water from moving creatures. Its hearing is superb, and it can echolocate.
REPRODUCTION: It lets out male cells when they meet a mate they approve of, and growths grow inside of the womb. Tentaclets follow their mother until they can be dropped off at their hive. They eat mucus that the hive creates and, when they are large enough, find a suitable guideling to make a nest with.
MOVEMENT: They fly by using their large pectoral fins as wings and their thorachic fins as engines. They have two legs on their underside.
EATING: It impales small animals and digests them by drawing them into the guts. They are able to prey on fast swimmers, and they use venom. Most of their food is from grazing worms and the dense vegetation. Other prey include land-dwelling spearfaced worms (slitherers) and other flappers.
PREDATION: We are mostly unpredated on the land.
COMPETITION: We are dominant in the air.
ENVIRONMENT: A lush plain of greenweed surrounding the lake and river.
HOME TERRITORY: Greenweed plain
NEARBY ENVIRONMENTS: Near-barren mountain, Rocky shore, Cool uplands
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