Flosoris

Classification

The Flosoris is a vertebrae mammal from the Canine family, which includes dogs, wolves, jackals and foxes. The Flosoris is an Omnivore/Apex predator, eating the leaves of certain trees, and any scavenger, herbivore and lesser predator around it. Its scientific name is Canis Oris

Habitat

It lives wherever with a specific type of algae glow. The Algae can be digested into its second stomach, which has connections to its fur follicles, it then isolates the colour and sends it to the fur, creating perfect camouflage. The habitat usually is a boreal forest and is near the poles, preferably with a hill overlooking a valley, so their sonar waves can easily transmit.

Description

The Flosoris has two thumbs on either side of its feet with microscopic hooks on the claws to grip to the ice and trees. The Florosis has 4-6 horns on the back of its head (4=female 5=male and 6= Alpha). Florosises has little fins on the side of its legs to help it swim if needed and a tail for steering with a lot of little muscles to create a fluid motion. It has 4-6 young (the only exception is the alpha, which has only one), its young is as big as a full grown labrador (40 cm tall and 30 cm long). The Flosoris has flower petal-like appendages around its head, the petals are used for closing around the Flosorises head to keep in heat and as a defence mechanism against anything stupid enough to challenge it (eg dominant males, cornered prey) The Flosoris can smell its own venom so if it bites its prey then it can track it. It has trichomes in its petals filled to the brim with neurotoxin to paralyse prey, hemotoxins in the bottom venom gland and anticoagulation venom in the top. Though its most dangerous venom is the cytotoxins and cardiotoxins, which literally and figurativly rip apart the membranes of cells. The Florosis has a slim fast body and black skin to absorb the heat. In its main head (apex) it has two retractable fangs which can spit out jets of Fluoroantimonic acid, which can cause extreme burns in contact but if it is inhaled or swallowed, it could be fatal. Flosorises sound like whales when they are hunting, with a combination of squeals, moans, clicks, whistles, and pulsed calls. They are usually 2.3 meters tall and 4.0 meters long, except for alphas, alphas are 5.0 meters tall and are 8.4 meters long (most of the length is made up from the tail, which makes up just over half of the body length when fully unfurled). Flosorises usually live for around 50-85 years of age, but remember in all this time they are always growing. The oldest Flosoris was a whopping 554 years old, and was 30.5 meters tall, that 100 foot!

Behavioural and instinctual adaptations

Flosorises hunt in packs of 5-20 and communicate with each other in sonar waves, hunting down and cornering their prey. The way Flosorises share their meal is unique to them. They wrap their petals around the part they want (preferably the head), suction on, and take a bite and step away for the next pack member to have a turn, this makes sure that everyone in the pack eats. The way they claim territory is also strange, while the rest of the pack is sleeping, two pack members stay up all night, sending out sonar waves in such a frequency that they can be heard from miles away, but not so loud that their sleeping pack members hear it and wake up. While they are doing this, they have their petals wide open like a satellite dish, to pick up any sound waves coming back. This gives them full surveillance of their territory, if anything unfamiliar enters that zone, the scouts wake up the pack by cranking up the volume on their sonar waves, this would first wake up the alpha, the one with the best hearing who would then give three short bursts of sonar waves to survey their surroundings, and if its an unfamiliar Flosoris, it runs off and eliminates it as a threat.

Summary

The Flosoris is a combination of fascinating, extreme and even brutal physical, instinctual and psychological adaptations, and one thing we can all agree on, we wouldn't want to be in a room full of these poisonous, venomous, toothy creatures.

 Complicated words I had to search up

Hemotoxin= Venom that attacks red blood cells and can cause loss of the affected body part or even death.

Neurotoxin= A venom that directly attacks the nervous system, which sometimes causes organ failure and paralysis

Anticoagulation=  stopping blood from clotting which would make the infected lose blood quickly

 Fluoroantimonic acid= The most dangerous type of acid, which can burn through steel with ease

Cytotoxin= A venom that destroys cells

Cardiotoxin= A venom that attacks muscle tissue and in some cases can cause heart faliure