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raygungoth — Frost Reaper

Published: 2008-01-29 15:12:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 1798; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 10
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Description Called a "Frost Reaper" because zoos get more visitors if the animals have cool, evocative names, this tundra predator is a fast moving creature native to Canaan's north pole. Its primary prey item is the tundra hog, and the reaper often works in pairs. Armed with a wide array of proto-eyes and having lost all the head tentacles to the ravages of evolution, the frost reaper still retains three of the spikes present on those tentacles, transformed into a rather nasty trap with which to hold struggling prey. It's got an extra sphiracles for funneling more air into the central body, as most predators do.

That vicious-looking "dewclaw," the vestiges of an entire forearm, isn't for capturing prey or stabbing things - its "mouth" is more than enough of a trap for prey - it's for grooming, manipulating rocks during breeding season, and for use in increasing the surface area of the animal that's touching the ground when thick snows are a problem.
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Toobworm [2013-01-06 00:28:24 +0000 UTC]

"Cool, evocative names"

xD

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PeteriDish [2012-05-20 21:20:30 +0000 UTC]

D=

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raygungoth In reply to PeteriDish [2012-05-21 04:55:50 +0000 UTC]

Spoiler: it's old man Jenkins tryin' to scare off Farmer Wilkins so he can take the oil under his barn!

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PeteriDish In reply to raygungoth [2012-05-21 08:03:30 +0000 UTC]

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gokou-sama [2010-06-11 05:45:50 +0000 UTC]

Excellent alien!

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FuzzyNecromancer [2008-01-29 18:18:52 +0000 UTC]

Good shading and pose. You are a masterly hypothetical xenobiologist.

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