Great Water Hound
Evolved from T.atlantus they became more adapted to living the aquatic lifestyle developing a streamlined body with a broader tail for swimming, larger lungs to hold their breathe, and a larger body to feed on large prey. Their front many leg bones fused until it only left the humerus, radius and ulna to reduce drag when swimming.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 predators to guard their young.
Found in zone 4 and nests in zone E, they get up to 2.5 feet long. They feed on M. pygmybrachium, M. tesla, R. mionsens, S. angelosis, young R.unguladontus, G. makari, F. clamus, D. fruitflotensis, dead carcasses( not main food), D. anokatokarpus, C. communis, R. rotundus, M. conchyluna, M. fungicomendenti, N. spinoyonxii, D. robustus, young D. maritimus, T.pelagicus,young T. therophagus, and R. lunga. They are able to hold their breath for 15 minutes. Due to their better and faster swimming ability(due to their more adapted body) they hunt solitarily but do not mind a frenzy when hunting a shoal of their prey.
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When swimming they rely on the strength of their tail while their arms are folded. Their coloration is usually green feathers and a dark to light blue body. Females however have a duller green and blue.
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 using its ears they are able to hear predators behind them so they are able to defend their eggs when not seeing the egg thief. 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.
