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my entry for the contest! ^^

Glides, a wonderful specie of the Auvira Forest. While they are indigenous to Auvira Forest, they can be found in any forest in Melauvira!
Their a very popular species, but largely due to their very peaceful which would lead some young Auri to believe them to be pets. However, you shouldn't keep them in captivity even with their very friendly disposition. They actually need trees to survive, so unless you for whatever reason live in a tree, you shouldn't invite one into your home. This has actually sadly lead to many deaths in their population, until this vital note was found out.

Leading from their need of trees, they actually eat the sap of the tree they are birthed on. This is very important, as they cannot drink from other trees and they have a very great sense of direction! (Some Aurillion use them to find their way home, should they live by a tree that Glides live in.) They rarely leave these trees other than to forage for fruits, which they can't take home with them due to their lack of strength. Some Aurillion say they favour fruit from their home tree, but this can't be proven due to some trees not actually baring fruit.

You might be wondering, how do they get around if they only have two limbs and are physically weak? Well the answer is in their name! They use their "wings" to glide on the air to find fruit, years of evolution has lead to them being very adept at reading air currents, either by leaves on trees or just their own senses, it actually very fun to watch them read the air because they pace on a tree branch til ready to take off. Of what we do know, we know they actually teach their babies unlike most bird that just tend to throw their babies from the nest.

It's also important to know they live in huge families, which inspired their plural name "Guilds"! They live in systems based by their birth trees, some more advanced guilds can even take up whole sections of forests. You might wonder how they can tell guilds a part, and surprisingly it's by the appearance of the Glide! Each Glide has the leaves and color of it's home tree, so a maple Glide would look leagues different from a birch Glide! Also, typically, maple Glides would be bigger and more rotund than birch Glides! It's also rather easy to tell females from males, based on the amount of leaves they have and the markings on their face!

Now that you know the difference between the sexes, we can talk about mating! I promise it isn't too graphic, its actually kind of cute. All Glides mate for life, however only males and female, and female and female partners can properly make a seed! Male and male pairings don't have the proper spores to make a child, this is why they live in such big families, so even those who cannot have child can still care for babies! To mate, the two Glides nestle together and shake their "ears" which lets of tiny spores that spawn during breeding season in the spring, these spores connect and form seeds that look a lot like the seeds the tree will spawn normally. After a month or so, they will hatch into babies!

It's also important to note, that Glides have multiple seasons! In chronological order, it's breeding season, then a season of living, a gathering season, and finally an inactive season! The breeding season is in late winter to about a month before spring ends, the living season is when they take care of young and live normally, gathering season is -- where they don't really gather -- but they eat a lot, and then the season of inactivity is much like hibernation but they don't actually sleep. During this inactive season, their ears shed and they rest or remain largely in a state of inactivity. Also, another important note to their living and gathering season, their ears do actually change with the trees, which helps them camouflage into the trees.

As an important note, the size chart contains, in order from left to right, the largest a Glide can be to the smallest and then a baby Glide compared to the size of an average Auri!art & Glides (c) M-adKing aka me!
aurillion (c) @/astragato

Description

my entry for the contest! ^^

Glides, a wonderful specie of the Auvira Forest. While they are indigenous to Auvira Forest, they can be found in any forest in Melauvira!
Their a very popular species, but largely due to their very peaceful which would lead some young Auri to believe them to be pets. However, you shouldn't keep them in captivity even with their very friendly disposition. They actually need trees to survive, so unless you for whatever reason live in a tree, you shouldn't invite one into your home. This has actually sadly lead to many deaths in their population, until this vital note was found out.

Leading from their need of trees, they actually eat the sap of the tree they are birthed on. This is very important, as they cannot drink from other trees and they have a very great sense of direction! (Some Aurillion use them to find their way home, should they live by a tree that Glides live in.) They rarely leave these trees other than to forage for fruits, which they can't take home with them due to their lack of strength. Some Aurillion say they favour fruit from their home tree, but this can't be proven due to some trees not actually baring fruit.

You might be wondering, how do they get around if they only have two limbs and are physically weak? Well the answer is in their name! They use their "wings" to glide on the air to find fruit, years of evolution has lead to them being very adept at reading air currents, either by leaves on trees or just their own senses, it actually very fun to watch them read the air because they pace on a tree branch til ready to take off. Of what we do know, we know they actually teach their babies unlike most bird that just tend to throw their babies from the nest.

It's also important to know they live in huge families, which inspired their plural name "Guilds"! They live in systems based by their birth trees, some more advanced guilds can even take up whole sections of forests. You might wonder how they can tell guilds a part, and surprisingly it's by the appearance of the Glide! Each Glide has the leaves and color of it's home tree, so a maple Glide would look leagues different from a birch Glide! Also, typically, maple Glides would be bigger and more rotund than birch Glides! It's also rather easy to tell females from males, based on the amount of leaves they have and the markings on their face!

Now that you know the difference between the sexes, we can talk about mating! I promise it isn't too graphic, its actually kind of cute. All Glides mate for life, however only males and female, and female and female partners can properly make a seed! Male and male pairings don't have the proper spores to make a child, this is why they live in such big families, so even those who cannot have child can still care for babies! To mate, the two Glides nestle together and shake their "ears" which lets of tiny spores that spawn during breeding season in the spring, these spores connect and form seeds that look a lot like the seeds the tree will spawn normally. After a month or so, they will hatch into babies!

It's also important to note, that Glides have multiple seasons! In chronological order, it's breeding season, then a season of living, a gathering season, and finally an inactive season! The breeding season is in late winter to about a month before spring ends, the living season is when they take care of young and live normally, gathering season is -- where they don't really gather -- but they eat a lot, and then the season of inactivity is much like hibernation but they don't actually sleep. During this inactive season, their ears shed and they rest or remain largely in a state of inactivity. Also, another important note to their living and gathering season, their ears do actually change with the trees, which helps them camouflage into the trees.

As an important note, the size chart contains, in order from left to right, the largest a Glide can be to the smallest and then a baby Glide compared to the size of an average Auri!art & Glides (c) M-adKing aka me!
aurillion (c) @/astragato