Night Slasher
| Night Slasher | ||
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| (Nyctophoneus gigadont) | ||
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| 22/140, Habitat Loss (Snowball) | ||
| Information | ||
| Creator | Xenomoose Other | |
| Week/Generation | 17/115 | |
| Habitat | Huggs-Yokto Savanna | |
| Size | 45 cm Long | |
| Primary Mobility | Unknown | |
| Support | Endoskeleton (Bone) | |
| Diet | Hemophagus (Tasertongue, Trowelhorn Gulper, Gringlo) | |
| Respiration | Active (Lungs) | |
| Thermoregulation | Ectotherm | |
| Reproduction | Sexual, Two Sexes, Live Birth, Pouch | |
| Taxonomy | ||
| Domain Kingdom Phylum Superclass Clade Class Subclass Order Family Genus Species | Eukaryota Carpozoa Spondylozoa Anisoscelida Pentapodes Soricia (info) Hemogorgonia Formidulomorpha Deinoscoriidae Nyctophoneus Nyctophoneus gigadont | |
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The night slasher has split from its ancestor and moved onto the Huggs-Yokto Savanna. It is larger with massive serrated fangs. Its head is longer with its fangs deeply rooted. It can open its mouth for even a wider gape. The lowermost eye can now see images again, while the eye furthest back is still heat-sensing. Its back teeth are slightly smaller and are rarely used. Its tongue has smaller bristles, but much more of them, giving its tongue a sandpapery texture. Its body shape is basically the same but with a shorter tail, longer limbs, and longer front claws. It has a slightly darker coloring to withstand sunlight at dawn, and shade. However it can't be in direct contact with sunlight. During the day it hides behind large objects or in an empty burrow, resting in a squatting position.
It comes out at night to attack prey off-guard, or sleeping prey. It retains the same hunting methods as its ancestor, but uses its darker back for camouflage. It goes looking for prey late at night when daylight creatures are sleeping. It hunts in the same methods as its ancestor, but uses a variation when hunting larger prey like the gringlo. It can't attack the whole gringlo pack while they are sleeping, so it attacks single individuals that stray from the sleeping group. It waits until the gringlo moves far enough from the pack that the attack won't be heard. It then creeps slowly from the side, using its back coloring to confuse it. When within range, it sprints up to the prey, stabs its foreclaws into the prey's side, and slashes its throat with its fangs. The attack is quick enough that the gringlo is dead before it can signal the rest of the group. It then drinks the blood, using its tongue to rasp the wound deeper as it goes. It also attacks trowelhorn gulpers by quietly digging into the burrow and cornering it. It attacks smaller prey by impaling them and squeezing them in its mouth to drain the blood.
The night slasher no longer uses milk to feed its offspring. They are now fed entirely on blood clumps. The pouch is kept only for carrying its young. The rest of the rearing process is the same as its ancestor.