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Grendon
Creator	Somarinoa (Look for more content by this person)
Stats
Diet	Hemophagous (Quirlaxi blood)
Health	50
Sight	1
Sprint	2
Sneak	1
Attack
Bite	1
Strike	2
Charge	1
Socialize
Sing	4
Dance	1
Charm	1
Other information
Locomotion	Quadrupedal walking
Environment	Vuunega: Catapult Tree Forest, Southern Zeeon
Size	Horse-height
Lifespan	~12 years
Classification
Kingdom	Neovuumalia
Order	Terrapoda
Family	Pachytentaclei
Genus	Grendoni

The Grendon are distant cousins of the Aurix, residing in the same general area of the planet Vuunega. They are the only known descendants of the original Zocellium strain to have remained as terrapods. They are a major rival of the Aurix, as well as a prey item to them.

Contents 1 Scientific Classification 2 Statistics 3 Food Chain 3.1 Prey 3.2 Predators 4 Physiology 4.1 Skeleton 4.2 Musculatory System 4.3 Brain & Nerve Center 4.4 Digestive System 4.5 Respiratory System 4.6 Circulatory System 4.7 Senses 5 Evolutionary History

[edit] Scientific Classification

Domain: Monocentralis (Single-Nucleus Complex Organisms)
Kingdom: Neovuumalia (Neovuumalids -- The New Vuunegan Fauna)
Subkingdom: --
Superphylum: Elektrozoa "Amber Life" ()
Phylum: Unspecified ("Animals" with Notochords)
Subphylum: Unspecified (Vertebrates)
Infraphylum: Gnathostoma (Jawed Vertebrates)
Superclass: Bipodomorpha (Two-Legged Vertebrates & Their Descendants)
Series: Ovozoan (Animals possessing amniotic eggs)
Class: Spinocephalopoda (Cephalopoids with Vertebrae)
Subclass: Spinoidea (Cephalopoids with Vertebrae)
Infraclass: Unspecified
Superorder: Hexidiformes (Spinocephalopods with 4 tentacle-arms and 1 pair of feet)
Order: Terrapoda (Terrapods - Spinocephalopods adapted to land)
Suborder: Unspecified
Infraorder: --
Family: Pachytentaclei "Thick Tentacles" (Terrapods which walk on their tentacles)
Subfamily: Unspecified
Genus: Grendoni (Grendons)
Species: Unspecified
Binominal Name: Grendoni sp.

[edit] Statistics

Species Type: Cold-blooded Terrestrial Terrapod
Lifestyle: Diurnal Social Pack-Hunting Hemophage
Hunt/Forage Success Rate: 60% Hunt (40% success rate), 40% Photosynthesis (99.7% success rate during day, 5% success rate during night)
Armor: Grendons do not possess much in the way of armor, and are in fact quite thin-skinned over much of their bodies. Only in recent times has armor begun to evolve, to help keep them alive during Aurix predation attacks. These come in the form of thickened, leathery pads covering their body's front. While this armor does not cover the rest of the body, their multitude of eyes affords them ample time to turn their fronts around to receive the brunt of an attack should one come at them.
Defenses: Unspecified
Weapons: In direct correlation to their weak skin and lack of real defenses, they have several offenses, albeit weak for all. This "weakness" is made up for however with their pack mentality. Their most dangerous weapons are their whip-tentacles, which can slice out the throat of many species, including the Aurix.
Tools: Grendons wield two whip-tentacles, which are covered in razor-sharp teeth. Because of this, they typically only manipulate prey and opponents.
Method of Eating: Unspecified
Reproductive Rate: Sexual maturity reached after 3 years. Can breed at any point of the year, and generally do; However, most of the young who survive do so when born during the warmer summer months, when the adults are more likely to lounge about, giving them an easier reasoning behind watching their young.
Gestation: Unspecified
Offspring Incubation: Unspecified
Number of Offspring: 10-12 grendon young per litter -- 45 grendon young per year.
Offspring Survival Rate (before age of maturity): 30% -- With the Aurix their primary predators, followed up by the Gargantua Wrays, many females are killed during the brooding months, which therefore leads to their young being killed by things like egg thieves and overall negligence for its continued existence. Grendon young are also prey to several smaller predator species.
Singular/Plural/Possessive: Grendon/Grendons/Grendoni

[edit] Food Chain

[edit] Prey

Grendon are exclusive predators, feeding on a single organism partially thanks to specialization.

• Quirlax

[edit] Predators

Few predators are known to exist for the Grendon, although this could be due to the lack of thorough exploration of the catapult forests by the Aurix.

• Aurix
• Gargantua Wray

[edit] Physiology

Below in this next section, you will find information on the Grendoni physical appearance, and explanations of things including, but not limited to, their skeletal structure and their senses.

[edit] Skeleton

Grendons utilize a simple skeletal structure consisting mostly of a vast ribcage, a skull, and the vertebrae that attach the two. Various smaller bones can be found in their whip tentacles and in their sails as support rods, as well as in "eye cup sockets" similar to the Aurixan cousins.

[edit] Musculatory System

Grendons are extremely powerful creatures, as they are heavily muscle-bound. However, much of this muscle makes up the legs, which are in fact modified tentacle-arms, and thereby lacking entirely in bone material. Much muscle makes up the main body, as well, thanks to its relative bulkiness. Their most limber muscles in their bodies make up those that allow their three sails to move up and down for communications and sunbathing purposes.

[edit] Brain & Nerve Center

Like many of the Aurixan relatives, Grendons are incredibly intelligent creatures, possessing an intelligence level comparably equal to that of Terran dolphins.

[edit] Digestive System

Because they remained hemophages as opposed to their cousins who - with the exception of the Vrennum and the Screek - all adapted new feeding styles, they had little need for an actual stomach, and therefore their digestive system is ruled by their Blood Processing Organ. Their enlarged size and bulky body allows for a significant amount of space available for this organ, making it quite large. This aids them in being able to process large quantities of Quirlax blood from a single take down.

Their intestines wrap unconventionally between the other, larger organs. Like other intestines, they are intertwining ropes which leech any and all nutrients left over from the blood processor's work. Amazingly, almost no waste product seems to exist.

[edit] Respiratory System

• Under Construction

[edit] Circulatory System

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[edit] Senses

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[edit] Evolutionary History

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