Mikado

"While most Thalassian animals seem to be wildly different from their mainland counterparts, certain basic body plans, such as the snake-like sprog crawlers, have evolved here as well. With Thalassian “snakes,” of course, come Thalassian Snake Eaters. The two species of Ophictonos seem to be local equivalents of the Pescidont Sprog-probers (Vermidonta,) hunting their abundant serpentine quarry with the disjointed, spear-like lower jaws on their first heads. These creatures usually hunt alone, jabbing and probing the ground in a continual search for food. Prey items are skillfully impaled on the lower jaws and then removed and consumed by their dexterous, trunk-like second heads. During the lean seasons, groups of them wander into the jungles to probe the forest floor, or scout the edges of raging wildfires to catch small animals flushed out by the blaze.

The males of this species have a very quirky ritual to impress females, which earns them their second most common name: “Mikados.” During the mating season, they gather sticks and branches with their hand-like second heads and line them up in neat rows near their nests. When a female approaches, they begin flipping the sticks up into the air with their long spears. This apparently impresses the females very much and they quickly join the game, flipping sticks together with their suitor. Mating takes place after an indeterminate period of stick flipping. These rituals, while funny to watch, clearly show the loose boundaries between play and mating behavior in nature." C. M. Koseman

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