HOME | DD

ProjectMishmash — Bugbass

#alien #aliencreature #alienspecies #astrobiology #creaturedesign #speculativeevolution #speculativebiology #speculativezoology
Published: 2024-03-20 20:44:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 252; Favourites: 2; Downloads: 0
Redirect to original
Description Submitted by LilZombie
Size:TBA
Niche:TBA
Planet of origin:TBA

Description: The Bugbass is a medium sized aquatic predator, it is highly adaptable. It can hunt in many ways, It can sweep through the sea floor and probe around with their trunk to look for prey hidden under the sand, they can directly catch and chase small prey. But most interestingly of all is their advanced tool use, they may sharpen rocks and sticks they encounter and use them as daggers, hammers or clubs to stab or smash prey, They are able to do this thanks to their high intelligence and cooperation as they may get help from other individuals to produce tools and hunt in grouo, they will live in pairs or sometimes small groups. In said groups or pairs they will raise offspring for several years, to teach them the many skills needed for survival as they only have offspring every two years, making younglings very valuable. If a predator manages to kill or eat an infant Bugbass, its family or pack will incessantly chase it down until the perpetrator is killed or at least driven off the land. Their intelligence gives them a big advantage towards other predators. But they are also strangely known to hunt for sport to show other members of their group or rivals their strength or sometimes just for pure "Fun". If fighting is needed, (generally between two rivals if intimidation doesn't work) they will ram eachother and sometimes even stab with their two horns or what would be comical to Humans: Slapping eachother with their flippers, although this is more common in playfighting and not actual serious combat, as it does little phisical damage. They will use their large red tail as a flag to communcate through the water to  with indivuduals far away. But at short distances they will use their flippers to make gestures similar to sign language as well as trunk movements

Related content
Comments: 0