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The Kadez is a medium-sized river chelicerate, living in particularly pure, well-oxygenated streams. It tolerates very cold temperatures and as such is often found in mountain streams. They turn over pebbles with their legs in search of small invertebrates, roe, and other small prey to eat. It is quite an active creature, and in areas where they are abundant, they'll often come up onto land for other food sources. That said, they are quite skittish, and surprisingly fast -especially underwater-, so it isn't always easy to approach them.
The bibby is one of the largest species in the nudel family. Adaptable and resourceful, they can be found in a variety of environments, provided enough humidity. Primarily a grazing animal, they also have a fondness for fallen fruits. Their large fangs are mostly used for defense or to pierce the tough skin of some of the fruits found in their natural habitat.
Finally got around to seeing Avatar: The Way Of Water and it inspired me to revisit a previous old take on "what if the Na'vi weren't humanoid and had an anatomy more closely resembling the rest of Pandora's vertebrate-analogs?"
The Omatikaya would be more feline in build as they live in the jungle, with all six limbs capable of grasping to help them in climbing treetops. Their long thin tails are flexible and used for balance, and while their first pair of limbs are most often used as "hands", the back four can also grasp and use tools but are less skilled at it than the first pair.
The Metkayina are an aquatic subspecies, and thus have plenty of aquatic adaptations: their eyes are more high-set on their heads, their hairlike tendrils are shorter, and they have a more streamlined, somewhat otter-like build with shorter but stronger limbs and broad and powerful finned tails. Their neck-nostrils are located higher up on their backs to breathe at the surface easier, and their digits are, like some water bird feet, lobed rather than webbed, allowing them better swimming while still maintaining dexterity and the ability to grasp.
Recombinants are mixed with human DNA, and thus display a few more human-like traits, such as a rounder skull shape, more human-like eyes, five-fingered hands with a single thumb as opposed to the zygodactyl digits of the pure Na'vi, and plantigrade hind feet. They're clearly more Na'vi than human, but just slightly humanlike enough as to seem uncanny and "wrong" to pure Na'vi, and while capable of walking and running on four limbs or six, prefer instead to stand and walk on just their two hind feet while leaving their middle limbs hanging awkwardly to the sides: an effect of body dysmorphia of their human minds struggling to come to terms with an alien body.
I like to believe we based dragons off of ancient dinosaur fossils, I believe this so much that I consider dragons to be a form of magical dinosaurs.
I have exciting information for you! Bird bones are not entirely hollow, rather they are filled with large air pockets. I find the result both delightful and terrifically unsettling!
How to Sedate a Werewolf, really.
So you need to sedate a werewolf.
You unlucky bugger. You poor, unfortunate soul. Your single stroke of luck is that you’ve somehow managed to hide yourself away in a veterinary clinic which means you have at least Buckley’s Chance of getting the job done, and Buckley did manage to survive a good 30 years or so.
Why you need to sedate this werewolf is, frankly, your own business. Maybe they are, in daylight, a friend or companion. Perhaps it’s for research. Perhaps you’d really prefer to kill the thing but you don’t think you can. Or, I suppose, you might secretly be the werewolf trying to prevent yourself from going on a violent spree and just don’t want to tell me. It’s alright, I wont snitch.
Good choice picking a vet clinic, one facility with a decent chance of having equipment on hand to sedate a large, opinionated canid with an uncertain chance of death. Now, quickly, what options do you have?
I’m going to assume you’re in a bit of a hurry and have nearly no medical knowledge, but are capable of reading a label and figuring out how to use a needle and syringe. (Hint: pointy end goes into the patient) Use the biggest needles (probably pink ones) that you can, they inject faster and will penetrate even cow skin so unless there’s the whole ‘only silver can damage them’ thing going on, should be fine.
Oh, and tranquilisers don’t work like in the movies where the animal blinks twice and falls over. It takes multiple minutes, maybe even up to 20, for an animal to feel the effects and they are capable of resisting some, especially when full of adrenaline. Even two minutes wrestling with a recently injected werewolf I would expect to challenge you.
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