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Description Female and male Angler Mogs have a similar dimorphism to that of average angler fish. Females are enormous and vicious apex predators. Although they're not as agile as their male counterparts, they're unstoppably terrifying and irresistible to prey. Their colorful textures and tempting lures are extremely hard to ignore. Females also don't have necks, which allows their jaws much more muscle and much more efficient jaw strength. Actually, that's a slight exaggeration. They've got necks, but they're just super short and stocky. Meanwhile males are a lot smaller and lankier with longer necks and often duller colors, but like their lady variants, they can also make their colors less bright at will when they wish to blend into the darkness better. Males are much lankier because they prefer to ambush their prey once it gets close enough. Their jaws aren't as strong as females, but their long necks provide better striking distance and they're still pretty speedy when snapping at prey. Plus their longer and lankier arms and legs allow them to much more efficiently chase around prey, or even sneak around and play with it. Females are solitary predators, and some males like to live alone themselves, but some younger or weaker males prefer to hunt in small packs of three so they can hunt and lure in larger prey, but they can still be very competitive with each other. All Angler Mogs are capable of completely desaturating their colors to help them camouflage more effectively in the darkness of their abyssal home, but their bioluminescent appendages are still visible in the dark, but prey is still far from deterred. Females mostly have a similar build to frog fishes, mostly having a single pair of large front limbs that help them walk upon the ocean floor and maybe even gallop, but admittedly not as graceful or agile as the scrawny males. Like most fishy beasts, females also have a swim bladder to help them propel themselves through the water, which is a little faster than simply ambling, but they like to have the option of just walking around to observe their territory more thoroughly.
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