ID: F.MA.1.015
Name: Ngcabaso
Sub Order: xxx
Class: Pretaria
Sub Class: Baso
Order: Roungar
Group: N/A
Sub Group: Flytrap Beast
Height: 3-6ft
Weight: 100-240llbs
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Ngcabaso
Overview
A small thing. Thin and wiry, of colors dark green to a pale brown. Its striped legs help it among the striped fronds of where it lives. A frill encompasses the base of its head. Striped much the same as the legs but with an iridescent sheen meant to attract bugs. One large eye sits on either side of its face. Its long jaws are toothless and can open to a great degree of 180-230 degrees. Its tongue is attached to the far side of its jaws, and when the mouth opens its tongue flares like a fan. Open mouthed and tongue flared it runs around where small insects fly. Sticky saliva entraps these insects for the Ngcabaso to eat.
Semi common they can be found in the muddier parts of upper Eastern Malia. No doubt working to keep insects from completely taking over as each Ngcabaso can down roughly 600-1800lbs of insects each recarnice (30 days). The incredibly hot climate they live in allows for obscene amounts of food to be eaten and for the Ngcabaso to not gain any pounds.
Temperment
As a small lightweight insectivore, the Ngcabaso is easily frightened. Scared off by anything that dares to move too fast. As Ngcabaso serve as prey animals for anything larger and heavier than them. Many are however kept as pets, with domesticated lines living happily in cities and settlements. Keeping rising insect issues at bay.
Life Cycle
Ngcabaso are polygamous animals that mass reproduce to offset predation upon the animal. Having clutches of 8-20 whelps. Where typically 3-4 survive to adulthood as the young face dangers such as predation, heatstroke, vulnerability to the toxic mist, and drowning. As the whelps grow they put on as much weight as they can as how heavy they grow during their adolescence is how heavy they will remain throughout the rest of their lives. Underweight whelps when matured can gain more weight, but due to closed growth plates it is rare they do. Leaving only the heaviest and healthiest of the bunch.
