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Published: 2016-12-08 04:36:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 2086; Favourites: 99; Downloads: 0
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doodling a lot of random animals on Hup lately, focused a little too heavily on this one (I'm not including the other five pages of mini roughs). Kogbo is a very common prey-like omnivore on Hup that can be found in various places around the world, so I scribbled out some of the more common versions. Mainly, the jungle Kogbo, which exists in most forest lands and is normally the size of our wild boars, but they can grow up to the size of a rhinoceros. These ones have two horns, tusks and wrist spurs and a large dorsal ridge that come off as flexible scales.The plains or desert Kogbo is smaller, and exists mostly in dry lands. It only has one horn, and while it doesn't have a dorsal ridge it's skin is more rough and strong in comparison to other kinds.
Lastly the inter-regional Kogbo, which has a hard stump instead of a horn, and has two pairs of spurs on each leg and a small dorsal ridge. These are generally migratory and can be found in multiple places along rivers and coasts.
I think I might toggle these guys a little more later.
All that is Hup (c) Morgan banks
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A bit unusual to see the plains version to be smaller than the forest version. Are the planet's forests limited rather by the nutrient content rather than the amount of water?
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The plains version is smaller for a few reasons, mainly, they exist in the desert grasslands areas where there are already several species of large grazing animals and large predators that hunt them. Early Kogbo could have either gotten large or small, and in areas rich in dry grasses it is easier to find a variety of food if you are a small omnivore rather than a large one. Nature opted for them to fill a niche of smaller sized animals. They do grow in a similar way to the jungle version, in which the older animals can get particularly larger, but they certainly do not get as large, with the majority of them not really exceeding the size of a boar throughout its life time. There are also more aggressively persistent predators in the plains, in general most kogbo don't last long enough to be a heavy weight.
There's a decent range in water and nutrient depending on where and which forest you end up in and what kind of soil its growing on. Certainly much more nutrients in the wet jungles than in the tall dry tropical forests leading towards the canyons and deserts. The migratory habits of the jungle kogbo as it ages are less inclined by food as it is for the need to hide from predators and the issue of if you can't hide to get bigger. The smaller ones that exist in richer, more entangled jungles have easy access to food and can easily run around the floor and roots to hide. Those that exceed a certain age (I am debating whether it should be a sexual dimorphism trait also but that would make mating a little hard for heavyweights), will outgrow the tangles of the inner jungle and simply move towards more open forest where there is still food to be found and get even bigger rapidly. It's not usually as big a migration as I seem to make it sound, as Hup's jungles sort of grow in a ring or layer formation with majority different tree types in each layer.
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