Water Hyena

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Evolved from T. junglius some specimens were forced off zone C due competition for territory and food cause some to be pushed to the coastal parts which force them to feed on dead beached carcasses.

Found in coastlines of zone C, they get 1.5 feet long. They feed on dead carcasses. Due to a lack of territory of land they do not have territories unless for breeding. When swimming they can hold their breathe for 5 minutes to drag carcass to the shore to feed. They find carcasses by either smell or by sight.

When breeding males would clean an area of land (1 meter in diameter) during winter and attract a female with its bright feathers. Once a female comes it will display its feathers by flaring and jump as high as it can to show its strength and good genes. If the female accepts the males mating ritual they would then mate and the female would run off. The female will then build her nest(build of sticks and bones) on the beach before she lay her eggs the next 2 days. Females would defend their nest territorially with them chasing anything of with a 1 meter diameter range so nothing can eat her 5cm eggs. A female can lay to 2-7 eggs but only 2-5 surviving due to predation by D. katharagnathus. Once the egg hatch in spring 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.

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