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290 MPE

A descendant of the leopard-like sphinx, the fanguar is a large griffon that is now among the apex predators of the longdark swamp 290 million years post-establishment. Weighing as much as 400 pounds and stretching up to ten feet nose to tail tip, this powerful, solitary hunter takes a very wide diet, from small scamps to trunkos many times its size, and it is even competent at capturing prey that dwells in the water, snatching it from the shore with its raptorial claws and very elongated hooked beak. Though it is longer legged and less arboreal than its ancestor, it is still a capable climber, and often rests out of sight in the forking branches of the largest swamp trees, even dismembering its prey and carting them up to store there in relative safety from thieves that stalk the shadows below. Most fanguars are melanistic year-round, the tawny spots of their plumage only visible in bright light, though lighter colored individuals with patterns more like the sphinx do exist. This species has also evolved paired ear-like tufts of bristles on their heads that serve as crests to make them appear larger in confrontation, but may also help improve the focus of their hearing.

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Description

290 MPE

A descendant of the leopard-like sphinx, the fanguar is a large griffon that is now among the apex predators of the longdark swamp 290 million years post-establishment. Weighing as much as 400 pounds and stretching up to ten feet nose to tail tip, this powerful, solitary hunter takes a very wide diet, from small scamps to trunkos many times its size, and it is even competent at capturing prey that dwells in the water, snatching it from the shore with its raptorial claws and very elongated hooked beak. Though it is longer legged and less arboreal than its ancestor, it is still a capable climber, and often rests out of sight in the forking branches of the largest swamp trees, even dismembering its prey and carting them up to store there in relative safety from thieves that stalk the shadows below. Most fanguars are melanistic year-round, the tawny spots of their plumage only visible in bright light, though lighter colored individuals with patterns more like the sphinx do exist. This species has also evolved paired ear-like tufts of bristles on their heads that serve as crests to make them appear larger in confrontation, but may also help improve the focus of their hearing.

Full entry: sites.google.com/site/worldofs…