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A scene of the Boreal plains of Darwin IV....

An arrowtongue ambushes a herd of planolopes, only to end up running for its own life. A pair of skewers have targeted this patch of ground, now nothing is safe. A startled gyrosprinter bounds away in the background while a mated pair of gillheads are caught in the middle of the stampede. A foraging group of jetdarter scouts zips around in anticipation of the inevidable kill following the skewers' hunt. A plains daggerwrist has also been accompaning the mighty arrowtongue on its hunt. If it manages to steer clear of the trampling herds and predators, it may have a slim chance at what very little juice remains in the oncomming kill. The gyrosprinter has its speed, the gillheads and the plains daggerwrist have insufficient size to be of interest to the predators above, therefore the larger, slower creatures are in harm's way. The planolopes posess fore/arse symetry, a trait convergently evolved in the symets of the south. The great arrowtongue, though among the most fearsome of terrestrial predators, seems to appear as nothing more than another scampering mealto the skewers. Its defense lies in its two, long potruding spikes on its back. As well as useful display structures within the species, these growths also pose an unconventional placement to the precision-targeting technique of the air-borne hunters....
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:icondarwin-king:
~Darwin-King Apr 20, 2013
I love everything but one thing... WHERE ARE THE PRARIE RAMS!?
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~Transapient Apr 21, 2013
They are....... right behind the camera!

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:icondarwin-king:
~Darwin-King Apr 22, 2013
Clever bipeds, they are.
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~Dinolion92 Apr 12, 2013
Based on the size of Darwinian animals, humans would probably be of little interest, except of course to the daggerwrist. That's better then getting skewered by a, well, Skewer.
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~Moebiusium Jan 14, 2013
I can see the full documentary my chrome crashh T°T
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:iconseatosea:
~seatosea Jan 11, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Ahhh...yesss....the right time and the right place for the confrontaion that Darwin IV biologists have been waiting for! Arrowtongue vs. Skewers! Did you make up some of the organisms, like the planolopes, gillheads, and plains daggerwrist? Or were they mentioned in expedition, for I do not recall these creatures from the fauna of Darwin IV that i have come to know. Great piece, and story, I might add!
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~palaeorigamipete Mar 17, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
You know I love this! =D
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~Transapient Mar 18, 2012
Indeed then! (smile)

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~palaeorigamipete Mar 18, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
:squee:
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~Transapient Mar 19, 2012
Very well then! (happy jumping)

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