Shovelbill
| Shovelbill | ||
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| (Neodromuflora kryoftyari) | ||
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| Information | ||
| Creator | HethrJarrod Other | |
| Week/Generation | 27/167 | |
| Habitat | East Morokor Subpolar Beach, West Morokor Subpolar Beach, Morokor Subpolar Coast, Wind Polar Beach, Wind Polar Coast, Voyager Barrens Archipelago, Voyager Archipelago Polar Beaches, Darwin Barrens, Darwin Tundra, Badger Subpolar Beach | |
| Size | 30 cm tall | |
| Primary Mobility | Biped, Erect Legs | |
| Support | Endoskeleton (Petrolignin) | |
| Diet | Omnivore (Beach Bubbleweed, Rockshellion eggs, Vermees, Scuttlers, Dartirs, Cleaner Bovermid, False Cleaner Bovermid, Flamboyant Fan Bloister, Boneweed, Pioneeroots, Fuzzweed berries, Sunstalks, Marbleflora, Mainland Fuzzpalm berries, Stowaway Harmbless, Kakonat), Scavenger | |
| Respiration | Active (Lungs) | |
| Thermoregulation | Endotherm | |
| Reproduction | Sexual (Live birth, Male and Female) | |
| Taxonomy | ||
| Domain Superkingdom Kingdom Subkingdom Phylum Class Subclass Superorder Order Family Genus Species | Eukaryota Viridisagania Mancerxa Phytozoa (info) Chloropodia (info) Pterophylla (info) Rostrophylla Dromeophylla Dinodypta Neodromidae Neodromuflora Neodromuflora kryoftyari | |
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The shovelbill replaced its ancestor, the shorelance, in its range, along the southern coast of Wallace. Like its ancestor, the shovelbill is omnivorous. It has the same wooden spines that run along its back for protection, as well as a skeleton reinforced with petrolignin. Its dominant phenotype has become purple splotches instead of blue, allowing better camouflage among the local purple flora.
The biggest adaptation it has evolved involves its beak. The end of its beak has become spoon or spade shaped, and gives the shovelbill its name. It uses this spoon, sticking its beak in the ground. It grabs everything; sand, pebbles, and eggs of the rockshellion. It will swallow all of it whole. What the shovelbill can't digest, it regurgitates back up later.
The shovelbill is still social, like its ancestor, forming groups of 5-6 called "meanders". In addition to using the sun and moon to navigate, they are able to use the magnetic field lines. Like the shorelance, the shovelbill are crepuscular, sleeping together in groups.
