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An official up to date visual for the monkey bird frogs, also known as Kixeli.
A quick re introduction for anyone new (so you don’t have to dredge through all the other posts XD) pretty much none of the previous info in the big TLDR posts is inaccurate, and I’d suggest going to read that if you’re interested in more info, but here’s some more general up to date info—>

Kixeli are a sentient species hailing from a planet covered mostly in ocean. They are amphibious, and originally evolved to switch between swimming and climbing using their webbed hands and powerful arms. Their skin is permeable, allowing them to extend their time underwater to hunt and gather as well as reproduce, but due to their larger body and brain size/oxygen needs this isn’t sustainable and they must return to the surface. Alongside their frequent trips outside the water, they have a mucus layer and several specialized glands (including in their face by their eyes) to help remove excess salt and change levels of urea in their body to help make sure they lose reassures when in the ocean.
Kixeli are omnivorous, and many cultures have a preference against eating anything that lives above water, including birds and the like, because they see themselves as spiritual equals to those animals as fellow air breathers. They favor “fast food”, or anything that can be carried easily as you swing around in a tree or on a boat. Payment/restaurants doesn’t really exist for them, they just have areas where food brought in by providers is available to the community (or people just eat what they catch and then bring extra to the community.) They also don’t chew their food, though some dishes are meant to be squished to the roof of the mouth with the tongue to experience the flavor.
They are oviparous, and have a specific mating season. Most Kixeli have multiple variable spawn partners and see it as strange to be nailed down to one. Anyone who participated lays their eggs in a communal tide pool carved out in their communities. Hatchlings are entirely aquatic until later months of age, where they will begin to poke their head above water for air and start interacting more with the adults around them, who feed them a nutritive crop milk as they have already absorbed most of their tail by now. This period is also the beginning of their understanding of language. Once they lose their tail and grow in their limbs, they are still mostly helpless until those fully develop and cling to a caretaker adult in the community (blood parents don’t necessarily always raise their own children, but as someone who laid eggs they are responsible for children as a caretaker so anyone who didn’t want eggs gets left alone).
They are also cold-blooded, which wasn’t a problem on their mostly tropical planet. It is a considerable problem once they left it, though, and most Kixeli today wear portable heating pads in as much of their body as they can so they’re able to get up and move around. Also now that many live in areas without a large body of water nearby (or an easy way to access said body of water) but still need to stay damp to maintain their music layer, so many also carry spray bottles or wet rags with them.
Kixeli are highly social (with their name even roughly translating to belonging together). they rarely live in groups of less than 5. They experience intense negative side effects from isolation. There are two categories of Kixeli in their communities: Kel (swimmer) and Arasit (flier). Arasit are just a rare continuation of their life cycle, since most Kixeli kids end up growing into Kel adults. Sometimes, though, an Arasit will develop in case the community needs to seek out new territory over long distance (they can’t truly fly, but they can use the powerful ocean winds and even some launching technology to glide very far to scout new resources and other communities). Arasit are highly celebrated as voyagers, but Kel are also valued as providers for their existing community and even accompany voyages on ships to help their Arasit fish and overall stay alive. Some Arasit will cut and cauterize their membranes to make it easier for them to swim or to symbolize they are staying in the community, though usually, they just poke small holes in there so they can wear clothes and be sanitary. Due to their sliminess, Kixeli normally keep clothing to a minimum and overall don’t have a need for it beyond temperature control and ornamentation. They have none of their own social taboos about nakedness, having no external genitalia, but still often clothe themselves to the standards of others due to the pressure/need to be polite from other species. They also have few class divides within their own communities, with everyone working for the good of the whole, and no sex/gender roles beyond squirter and egg layer since everyone cares for the eggs. To humans, their language sounds like birdsong, with lots of repetitive noises and subtle shifts in pattern and tone. Their unique vocalization makes their languages hard to learn and even harder to speak, but they themselves are incredible mimics (only surpassed in some ways by humans because lips and teeth). The fin on their forehead is similar to eyebrows in communicating emotion or tone. They can see a similar color spectrum to humans and love bright contrasting colors similar to their own skin patterns.

4 main regional variations of the Kixeli, shown Top down in the image : tidal sand flats, cliff divers, mangrove nomads, and islanders.
You’d better believe I’m doing one of these for everyone, humans and muttreazik too. Stay tuned
Also I’ll post a version in status posts without all their little trinkets on, since I got kinda mad I had to cover up all my patterns.

Description
An official up to date visual for the monkey bird frogs, also known as Kixeli.
A quick re introduction for anyone new (so you don’t have to dredge through all the other posts XD) pretty much none of the previous info in the big TLDR posts is inaccurate, and I’d suggest going to read that if you’re interested in more info, but here’s some more general up to date info—>

Kixeli are a sentient species hailing from a planet covered mostly in ocean. They are amphibious, and originally evolved to switch between swimming and climbing using their webbed hands and powerful arms. Their skin is permeable, allowing them to extend their time underwater to hunt and gather as well as reproduce, but due to their larger body and brain size/oxygen needs this isn’t sustainable and they must return to the surface. Alongside their frequent trips outside the water, they have a mucus layer and several specialized glands (including in their face by their eyes) to help remove excess salt and change levels of urea in their body to help make sure they lose reassures when in the ocean.
Kixeli are omnivorous, and many cultures have a preference against eating anything that lives above water, including birds and the like, because they see themselves as spiritual equals to those animals as fellow air breathers. They favor “fast food”, or anything that can be carried easily as you swing around in a tree or on a boat. Payment/restaurants doesn’t really exist for them, they just have areas where food brought in by providers is available to the community (or people just eat what they catch and then bring extra to the community.) They also don’t chew their food, though some dishes are meant to be squished to the roof of the mouth with the tongue to experience the flavor.
They are oviparous, and have a specific mating season. Most Kixeli have multiple variable spawn partners and see it as strange to be nailed down to one. Anyone who participated lays their eggs in a communal tide pool carved out in their communities. Hatchlings are entirely aquatic until later months of age, where they will begin to poke their head above water for air and start interacting more with the adults around them, who feed them a nutritive crop milk as they have already absorbed most of their tail by now. This period is also the beginning of their understanding of language. Once they lose their tail and grow in their limbs, they are still mostly helpless until those fully develop and cling to a caretaker adult in the community (blood parents don’t necessarily always raise their own children, but as someone who laid eggs they are responsible for children as a caretaker so anyone who didn’t want eggs gets left alone).
They are also cold-blooded, which wasn’t a problem on their mostly tropical planet. It is a considerable problem once they left it, though, and most Kixeli today wear portable heating pads in as much of their body as they can so they’re able to get up and move around. Also now that many live in areas without a large body of water nearby (or an easy way to access said body of water) but still need to stay damp to maintain their music layer, so many also carry spray bottles or wet rags with them.
Kixeli are highly social (with their name even roughly translating to belonging together). they rarely live in groups of less than 5. They experience intense negative side effects from isolation. There are two categories of Kixeli in their communities: Kel (swimmer) and Arasit (flier). Arasit are just a rare continuation of their life cycle, since most Kixeli kids end up growing into Kel adults. Sometimes, though, an Arasit will develop in case the community needs to seek out new territory over long distance (they can’t truly fly, but they can use the powerful ocean winds and even some launching technology to glide very far to scout new resources and other communities). Arasit are highly celebrated as voyagers, but Kel are also valued as providers for their existing community and even accompany voyages on ships to help their Arasit fish and overall stay alive. Some Arasit will cut and cauterize their membranes to make it easier for them to swim or to symbolize they are staying in the community, though usually, they just poke small holes in there so they can wear clothes and be sanitary. Due to their sliminess, Kixeli normally keep clothing to a minimum and overall don’t have a need for it beyond temperature control and ornamentation. They have none of their own social taboos about nakedness, having no external genitalia, but still often clothe themselves to the standards of others due to the pressure/need to be polite from other species. They also have few class divides within their own communities, with everyone working for the good of the whole, and no sex/gender roles beyond squirter and egg layer since everyone cares for the eggs. To humans, their language sounds like birdsong, with lots of repetitive noises and subtle shifts in pattern and tone. Their unique vocalization makes their languages hard to learn and even harder to speak, but they themselves are incredible mimics (only surpassed in some ways by humans because lips and teeth). The fin on their forehead is similar to eyebrows in communicating emotion or tone. They can see a similar color spectrum to humans and love bright contrasting colors similar to their own skin patterns.

4 main regional variations of the Kixeli, shown Top down in the image : tidal sand flats, cliff divers, mangrove nomads, and islanders.
You’d better believe I’m doing one of these for everyone, humans and muttreazik too. Stay tuned
Also I’ll post a version in status posts without all their little trinkets on, since I got kinda mad I had to cover up all my patterns.