Tachyviscoglot, More Commonly Called A Grapple Tongue, Are Small Seelenlos Which Eat The Bioluminescent

tachyviscoglot, more commonly called a grapple tongue, are small seelenlos which eat the bioluminescent ostoexoapo, occasionally scavenge on dead seelenlos they find, and eat sprouvas they come across, they have some of the most complex eyes of all organisms within the shadow forest, and the muscles in their eye sockets naturally point up as they rest, they wander across the shadow forest going from light source to light source, a lot of tachyviscoglot have actually gone blind from staring at tiruriwk, their star, or even tukre, their moon, though staring at the night sky is a lot less permanently damaging as opposed to staring at the day sky, with grapple tounges which see the day sky going permanently blind having to rely on just their sense of smell, touch, and hearing to explore their environment and find prey, if you have any questions about this organism please dont be afraid to ask i am more than overjoyed to answer

platyvenator, more commonly called an ambush cyclops, are large flat ostoexoapo, unusually theyve fused their eyes together which let them see pretty much everything they need, they jump off of the trunk of the mycoarbor they rest on to pin their flying/gliding prey down, they tend to move in the air in order to grip them with their limbs, and then they extend their proboscis and begin digesting their prey, though this has been taken advantage of by predators using aggressive mimicry, but due to the almost complete lack of light besides the stark orange of sprouvas and white-yellow light of migratory uking and glowing leg bioluminescence, this means that they cant evolve to detect the light better since that could mean losing their ability to detect their prey as well, they have learned to hang around sprouvas to eat the migratory uking which feed on them, as well as holes in the trunks to eat the eggs/larvae inside, if theyre lucky their prey will land nearby them and they can just catch and eat it, if you have any questions at all about this organism please dont be afraid to ask i am more than happy to answer

solinapod, more commonly called a root worm, are medium sized ostoexoapo, they make small burrows in clusters of spore cones and dig tunnels to their roots and eat them, they also eat carcasses and smaller ostoexoapo as well as eggs, theyve even evolved flexible forelimbs which is believed to have been evolved by an apex predatory ancestor of solinapods from when shadow forests were small highly isolated environment, and its believed that they use them fairly similarly, to grab their prey and eat it, though they have secondarily evolved the ability to dig using them, letting them dig their complex burrows and helping them break down the roots of spore cones, they also have learned how to eat their predators the acid horns, by eating everything but their front half, if you have any questions whatsoever please dont be afraid to ask, i am more than happy to answer

dolomacephalus, more commonly called a glowing mouth, are ostoexoapo which have evolved to use the potent toxins within sprouvas which are made to kill the migratory uking to fuel their acidic saliva to immediately take down their main prey item, which are platyvenators, they are the only genus in the shadow forest with control over their bioluminescence, being able to turn it off whenever theyre resting or eating something or hunting something other than platyvenators, their proboscis is coming out of their forehead which most ◗ta scholars have come to the consensus as a genetic mutation which was super helpful, as it increased their range for feeding, they also are known to rest inside abandoned burrows or nearby and making it look like a gliding leg flew into it and then turning off their biological light to draw a platyvenator towards it, then killing it and eating it, if you have any questions about this organism please dont be afraid to ask i am more than happy to answer

photianix, more commonly called a migratory uking, are the form they take while in the shadow forest, formerly believed to be a unique but closely related genera to skotafos, but its now known that they are one in the same, though their forms are still distinguished by the names, while they live in the shadow forest they eat the sprouvas, but due to them being too small to eat it hole they are deemed as parasitic to the "fruits" due to only eating small bits and consuming the hardy seed like spores within entirely, meaning theres been an arms race between photianix and sprouvas by making the spores progressively more poisonous, though this has to be balanced since the fruits still need to be eaten by the actual seelenlos which spread it, though due to the dendropteryx being extremely intelligent has proven them eating migratory uking and then the sprouvas to spread the spores and remove the uking, they use 8 bioluminescent spots around their eyes, 4 around each eye, to see their environment when they arent searching for sprouvas, which tends to be often since after they feed on as much sprouvas as possible they lose their ability to fly for anywhere from a few hours to days, and instead can only glide and climb, if you have any questions about this ostoexoapo please dont be afraid to ask i am more than willing to answer

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