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The Primal Flopher is one if the first so-called mammalian Flumpuses - A new clade that will be called Flophers for now on. They have complete endothermy and short fuzz covering their skin. The Flophers have a well specialized gizzard and powerful throat muscles to swallow nuts and small creatures like Multipods, Gelraisers and small Astrogill fish. They have gigantic front pincers for tearing Cyant stems and tree trunks, and on the first fruits and nuts, produced by Curlflowers. They have a decent sense of balance, however not like the acute balancing senses of its contemporaries, the Endooroos, which utilize a short, heavy tentacle used like a gyroscope, and who also approach mammal-like qualities. Both these organisms live all along the Southaustran coast, living in the shadow of warm-blooded Endoroos and the larger shadows of Giganauts - Large, tripodal organisms, part of the early radiation of Shellaroos that gave rise to the Carrotclaws - which can grow large without freezing.
The nose of the Primal Flopher is further elongated to the mouth to better smell food in front of it. There are strong selective pressures to so do as the daytime is less than ideal, to put it lightly. Their ears are also further developing, although without external parts. Their posture is semi-erect with pertruding shoulders, but the back pair of legs are fully erect. The reproduction process has been completed; a pouch has formed between the tail and the hind, and a separate cavity to protect eggs developing after they get produced by the body. All of these qualities help the Flopher fill a niche similar to a - Gopher - digging a burrow with strong front claws. Flophers live in small social groups, up to 10 individuals in a burrow system. Mature babies born from one burrow will seek out another, to spread genetic diversity.
Primal Flophers, both social and nonsocial, spread across Southaustra, as well as Yland.