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Not yet formally described, toddles are an animal group that comprises the majority of ECCO-1c "lizards," even though most varieties are more niche-similar to cockroaches, being omnivorous detritus-eaters. Cockroaches are starting to edge them out on some islands, however. One of the more common types, which resemble terrestrial barnacles in habit, though not in size, weighing in at almost as much as 1 kg, are an easily-caught snack by native children, and colonists who have been offered some describe the taste as "shrimp-like." They hatch from eggs into small larvae that devour the unfertilized eggs on their home stalk, and spend the first quarter of their lives as plankton, similar to Earth copepods.Almost all toddles can eat just about anything the can get their mouthparts around, and those with a strong enough bite will take anything they can tear off larger animals, though there are some that are grazers, and have taken a liking to the kelp the first wave colonists brought with them and which now grows everywhere it can, the toddle slowly walking along the bottom with an awkward, bipedal gait.
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\the guy in the middle reminds me of a hendropod
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It eats algae and uses its neutrally buoyant body to walk along the bottom sea floor. Any humanoid appearance is pareidolia, much like stingray undersides.
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Some groups are, some aren't. The "giant barnacle," the water baby in the upper right, and the benthic walker certainly are, but the flyer and the two "lizards" aren't, and found mainly on islands. For aquatic varieties, their gills and mouthparts are in their posterior end. For the land-dwelling species? They only eat with their ass.
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Ah interesting, so that beaky tail thing on the flier makes sense.
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According to some colonists, a lot of them fall between the creepy/cute axis and do very well in captivity, which means the interplanetary pet trade has been firmly established. Humans haven't been on planet long enough to have stable CB supplies, though, so overhunting of local lizards is starting to become a problem on some islands.
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