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Description
A bizarre creature lumbers along the forest clearings in southern coastal Kaltun. Here in this rainforest, with steady access to rainfall and a vulcanic past, plants grow uninhibited in an explosion of green. Their flowers errupting in brilliant dazzling arrays of color attracting all sorts of animals to their sweet nectar. Among them, the lumbering hedonist is the largest.

At 30 feet tall standing upright and weighing well over 8 tons, they are some of the largest nectarivores in Paradoxia. Such a high energy diet allows them to attain stupendous sizes for their ecology, though some flexibility is fairly present, with fruits and animal matter rounding up the smaller 5% of their diet. Thus, unsurprisingly they're one of the key pollinators of the giant flowers found in this rainforest. Some plant species going as far as to co-evolve alongside the hedonist in a mutual symbiotic relationship, one that has lasted for several million years.

Lumbering hedonists are social, living in herds of 8 members. A given herd is a nuclear family of a mated pair and their multi-generational offspring, with the patriarch and his oldest sons providing for most of the protection against predators. They keep in contact with other herds throughout the day, communicating in infrasound. Every so often these families will get together in massive congregations to socialize directly, exchanging information or just enjoying their time together. It is during these events where dispersing subadults find their future mates.

Description
A bizarre creature lumbers along the forest clearings in southern coastal Kaltun. Here in this rainforest, with steady access to rainfall and a vulcanic past, plants grow uninhibited in an explosion of green. Their flowers errupting in brilliant dazzling arrays of color attracting all sorts of animals to their sweet nectar. Among them, the lumbering hedonist is the largest.

At 30 feet tall standing upright and weighing well over 8 tons, they are some of the largest nectarivores in Paradoxia. Such a high energy diet allows them to attain stupendous sizes for their ecology, though some flexibility is fairly present, with fruits and animal matter rounding up the smaller 5% of their diet. Thus, unsurprisingly they're one of the key pollinators of the giant flowers found in this rainforest. Some plant species going as far as to co-evolve alongside the hedonist in a mutual symbiotic relationship, one that has lasted for several million years.

Lumbering hedonists are social, living in herds of 8 members. A given herd is a nuclear family of a mated pair and their multi-generational offspring, with the patriarch and his oldest sons providing for most of the protection against predators. They keep in contact with other herds throughout the day, communicating in infrasound. Every so often these families will get together in massive congregations to socialize directly, exchanging information or just enjoying their time together. It is during these events where dispersing subadults find their future mates.