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At long last, I finally made a new page to my Centauri series. This part focuses on the Understory of the Frame tree rainforest, below the canopy and just above the undergrowth. Here are the species featured.

Copter fruit: The fruiting bodies of the Creeping vines, copter fruits are suspended by specialized vines to decrease the distance between them and the ground, so the planet's high gravity won't damage the seeds within. These fruits are a favorite among many herbivores and are usually eaten upon ripening. However, if a Copter fruit remains uneaten it will be released from it's fine and specialized will slow it's descent in a helicopter-like fashion, hence their name.

Brachiating hexapods: Evolved from eight limbed ancestors, four of the hexapods' limbs fused into a pair of powerful arms for efficient locomotion through the trees and maintaining a powerful grip on vines while feeding. The remaining four limbs end in grasping hands which can bring food such as copter fruits to their mouths. Like many earth primates, Brachiating hexapods are social, living family groups that travel together and watch over each other while feeding.

Pecking Griffin bird: The woodpeckers of Alpha Centauri Ab, Pecking griffin birds feed on invertebrates that bore into Frame Trees.

Disclocus: Predatory relatives of Quadralocuses, Disclocuses can flatten their bodies under the cover of a singular wing membrane. Blending in with the bark, they can sense the vibrations of anything within 3ms of them, from predators such as Griffonbirds, to tiny prey such as bark mites, which they capture with clawed limbs. If food becomes scarce or there's immediate danger, Disclocuses launch themselves and fly to other branches using their wing membrane to undulate in a manner similar to jellyfish.

Hopefully the next piece won't be too long.

Comments and critiques are welcome

Description
At long last, I finally made a new page to my Centauri series. This part focuses on the Understory of the Frame tree rainforest, below the canopy and just above the undergrowth. Here are the species featured.

Copter fruit: The fruiting bodies of the Creeping vines, copter fruits are suspended by specialized vines to decrease the distance between them and the ground, so the planet's high gravity won't damage the seeds within. These fruits are a favorite among many herbivores and are usually eaten upon ripening. However, if a Copter fruit remains uneaten it will be released from it's fine and specialized will slow it's descent in a helicopter-like fashion, hence their name.

Brachiating hexapods: Evolved from eight limbed ancestors, four of the hexapods' limbs fused into a pair of powerful arms for efficient locomotion through the trees and maintaining a powerful grip on vines while feeding. The remaining four limbs end in grasping hands which can bring food such as copter fruits to their mouths. Like many earth primates, Brachiating hexapods are social, living family groups that travel together and watch over each other while feeding.

Pecking Griffin bird: The woodpeckers of Alpha Centauri Ab, Pecking griffin birds feed on invertebrates that bore into Frame Trees.

Disclocus: Predatory relatives of Quadralocuses, Disclocuses can flatten their bodies under the cover of a singular wing membrane. Blending in with the bark, they can sense the vibrations of anything within 3ms of them, from predators such as Griffonbirds, to tiny prey such as bark mites, which they capture with clawed limbs. If food becomes scarce or there's immediate danger, Disclocuses launch themselves and fly to other branches using their wing membrane to undulate in a manner similar to jellyfish.

Hopefully the next piece won't be too long.

Comments and critiques are welcome