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some little snapshots of a species from my home planet, Gold Cloud.
about the species:
They are called Gum Eaters, and they eat Gummies. 'Gummies' are a whole clade of soft-bodied animals; their anatomy is something between an axolotl, a sea slug, a velvet worm, and marine proto-insects, lobopods. Little more than a gut with appendages to move that gut to more food. They live in fresh water, and come in infinitely many shapes and sizes. Gummies are the most plentiful life form on Gold Cloud, and a glorious foodsource for life forms that can digest them!
Gum Eaters are themselves a very widely varying array of critters, coming in all shapes and sizes and specialization. They lack any arms, only having long legs to wade in shallow water. As Gummies are completely soft inside and out, their predators also lack teeth, and swallow their prey whole and alive. HOMF--!
Gum Eaters are rather simple-minded and easygoing creatures, quick to run from threats, likely prey to anything. Acquiring their food requires little intelligence, so they ain't got more than what they need.They are relatively sociable, in that they aren't territorial and don't generally kill one another, but they do bicker and squabble in a petty way. They don't keep close ties to individuals other than mates, and groups seen together aren't a clove or family, or anything like that. They tolerate groups of their own kind-- they are not patient and loving.
In this image is a mid-size, 'average' species, but there are exaggerated extremes such as heavy, thick-legged Gum Eaters that root their toes into the soil to persist steadfast in fast-running strips of rivers, small lightweight Gum Eaters which live and breed upon lilypads, and even tinier ones which feast on larvae floating about in stagnant puddles after rainfall.
about the species:
They are called Gum Eaters, and they eat Gummies. 'Gummies' are a whole clade of soft-bodied animals; their anatomy is something between an axolotl, a sea slug, a velvet worm, and marine proto-insects, lobopods. Little more than a gut with appendages to move that gut to more food. They live in fresh water, and come in infinitely many shapes and sizes. Gummies are the most plentiful life form on Gold Cloud, and a glorious foodsource for life forms that can digest them!
Gum Eaters are themselves a very widely varying array of critters, coming in all shapes and sizes and specialization. They lack any arms, only having long legs to wade in shallow water. As Gummies are completely soft inside and out, their predators also lack teeth, and swallow their prey whole and alive. HOMF--!
Gum Eaters are rather simple-minded and easygoing creatures, quick to run from threats, likely prey to anything. Acquiring their food requires little intelligence, so they ain't got more than what they need.They are relatively sociable, in that they aren't territorial and don't generally kill one another, but they do bicker and squabble in a petty way. They don't keep close ties to individuals other than mates, and groups seen together aren't a clove or family, or anything like that. They tolerate groups of their own kind-- they are not patient and loving.
In this image is a mid-size, 'average' species, but there are exaggerated extremes such as heavy, thick-legged Gum Eaters that root their toes into the soil to persist steadfast in fast-running strips of rivers, small lightweight Gum Eaters which live and breed upon lilypads, and even tinier ones which feast on larvae floating about in stagnant puddles after rainfall.
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