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Archipithecus In reply to Glacial23 [2014-03-09 13:40:09 +0000 UTC]

1. They are called the K'loar.

2. The creature they are carrying in the center is a baby K'loar, wrapped up in blankets.

3. The spikes were originally something that would develop when they reached maturity, but I'm thinking about drawing a newer version without them. Do you think I should keep them?

4. The trunk mouth is moveable. If you look here: archipithecus.deviantart.com/a… , you can see what their head is like on the inside. That picture is outdated, so the barbed tongue should be forked, and like I said before, I'm not sure if I want the back spikes.

5. Their language is vocal, with some visual cues from the eye stalks, such as retracting them shows you're afraid or ready to fight. They produce sound from the 'nostrils' that are located on their necks, by pushing air through an organ similar to our voice box. Since they don't have tongues in their neckstrils (that's what I call them) they can't produce sounds like 'd', 't', or other sounds like that. They also use beak clicks as consonants. That's what the k' represent when written in English, so when they say the name for their species it sounds more like "Click oar", instead of K'loar.

6. They originally had eye stalks because eye stalks are cool, but the explanation that I'm using right now is that the common ancestor of all the octopeds had eye stalks, and while most groups lost them, the Antebrachs (front arms, includes the alloduikers and strong arms) still have small eye stalks. The leading theory why K'loar have much longer eye stalks than their relatives is that the K'loar originally inhabited the plains, so their eye stalks grew longer to help see farther.

7. That is a photosynthetic growth, although I don't know how efficient it would be. On earth, every single tree-like plant from deciduous oaks to extinct tree ferns had separated individual leaves. I think I was mainly trying to get a novel plant form.

Thanks for questions!

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Glacial23 In reply to Archipithecus [2014-03-09 14:11:21 +0000 UTC]

1. K'loar, huh. Interesting name, is it the humans name for them or what the species calls itself? And how do you pronounce it, like "Click"-low-or? That's how I imagined it sounding anyway; of course you say it faster than it looks like you should in that sentence.
2. Oh, that is an interesting idea!
3. Hmm, it seems as though they have almost no purpose, although maybe they are a relic from their ancestors (before they were sapient) which they used as defence, but now are atrophied as they can use weapons to defend themselves. Assuming they use weapons?
4. What extra abilities does being able to move its "oral trunk", I shall call it, give it? And how exactly do the jaws attach to the skull then, if they have skulls at all?
5. Ah, an interesting language. I have heard white storks practising bill clicking behaviour, but I suppose the K'loar make a deeper sound than that, since their beaks aren't as long.
6. " Oh my god bro, why do they have eye stalks? "
    " 'Cause they're cool  "
That's what I imagined when I read that part .
But on a more serious note, that does make sense but wouldn't they get in the way when running?
7. No, I think that would work. As long as the surface area of the part that's photosynthetic is large enough to absorb enough sunlight to sustain the plant *deep breath* then I think it should work. It doesn't need to be like Earth as long as it's biologically possible.

Haha, I wasn't expecting you to thank me for the questions, usually people don't like it.

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Archipithecus In reply to Glacial23 [2014-03-09 17:41:32 +0000 UTC]

1. I pronounce it kloar, one syllable, no clicks. But of course, that's just humans bastardizing native languages.

2. Thanks!

3. I imagined them a kind of floppy and thin, more like thin frills more than spikes. I don't they were ever used as weapons.

4. I'm not sure about added abilities for the oral trunk except maybe more reach. Their jaws aren't very strong because they don't have very strong muscle attachments. Their skulls are little more than brain cases, but in more 'advanced' creatures such as Medibrachs the jaws and brain case are fused together.

5. I figured, since I gave them beaks instead of lips they might as well use them in their language.

6. The eye stalks can retract into the head, so they won't get damaged during running or fighting where they could get injured.

7. It might. I think I'll keep it, maybe be able to rotate to face the sun.

Questions are good! Besides, I'm on break right not, so it's not I have much else to do. It's either this or hours stuck in youtube and tvtropes, and I like to work on my project.

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Glacial23 In reply to Archipithecus [2014-03-09 17:56:39 +0000 UTC]

1. Ah, so simply like claw.
2. No problem
3. Hm... Maybe they could electromagnetic sensors? I don't really know...
4. They must not, since they're not really attached to anything either.
5. Might as well.
6. Makes sense to me.
7. Plants can do that sort of thing in real life, so yeah that's a great idea.

Neither have I. Well, except for an essay I was going to write today, but I've got two more days to do it so why not relax?

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Archipithecus In reply to Glacial23 [2014-03-09 20:45:26 +0000 UTC]

1. Yup!

3. I think they're just for decoration.

4. Sometime I may redo this, showing a place for jaw muscles to attach. But their jaws are still pretty weak, even compared to humans.

5. You gotta make do with what you've got.

6. That's good. It's good when something makes sense.

7. I got that idea from the sunflower. And maybe the big dish could also trap rainwater, since it lives in dry areas.

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Glacial23 In reply to Archipithecus [2014-03-09 21:11:46 +0000 UTC]

3. Sounds fine.
4. They would be.
5. Very true.
6. Haha, indeed it is .
7. Figured as much. And that's a nice idea.

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