Sand Hound
Evolved from T. atlantus specimens in zone E starts to feeding on carcasses in zone E due to competition with themselves, this led to them start to hunt zone E's inhabitants hunting in little packs to kill prey. Their front many leg bones fused until it only left the humerus, radius and ulna to reduce weight from their front arms sinking to the sand and reduce drag. Their broad tail also had became thinner to reduce drag on land. They got bigger to hunt the larger prey. They also developed a pair of simple ears found at the back of the skull with a slight hollow indention just a the eardrum and nerves to hear vibrations of its prey.
Found in zone e they get 2.7 feet long. They feed on dead carcasses, S.mesomasaous, S. katadysius, S. china, S. azurelotus, G. dentroperkus, G. elachistus, G. pidimatreximus. Hunting in packs of 3-6(increase pack size to better increase chance of sucessful hunts) they usually surround its prey and jumping on its back to try to bite its neck, or bite their legs to slow them down for the rest to also start biting. They have no alpha just travel in groups to insure success of a meal with them also nesting together to insure protecting from the much larger predators. As their pigments have a plain sand colour with its feathers being light brown and green mixtures they are able to camouflage in their surrounding however males have a more brighter green feathers and their spots are more yellow.They do not swim at all as they adapted to a terrestrial lifestyle but still can swim in the oasis.
When breeding(not seasonal) males will leave their current group, together, to seek out females that they court in 1:1 sessions, males display to the females with their bright feathers and jump around the female to court it on a 1 on 1 session, the female will select the dominant male in the event two males want the same female. If the female accepts this offering for court they would then mate and packs would meet up in one area to mate done once mating is done they would go off in their own packs to build a nest. Packs stay together to make one large nesting area to insure better protection from raiders like D. pantheropteryx but will hunt separately to raise their young. Males only give up courting females when there is no female left. Males that do not end up mating, stick with the group anyway and help take care of the nest/hunt and given up males help defend other parents' eggs on that ocassion of breeding until the next breeding encounter appears. Females unable to find mates stick with the group anyway and help take care of the nest/hunt. The males and females form a new group together after mating. This group is composed of all of the males and all of the females, even ones that didn't mate. A female can lay to 2-7 eggs but only 2-5 surviving due to predation by D.katharagnathus. Once the egg hatches the female would take care of the young for about 1 year until they grew into young adults.The female would teach her younglings how to hunt when they are sub-adult and then chase them off the nest when they are old enough. This species also mates for life to insure better skill in raising young.
