Blackslate Anchavalio

The Anchavalio is the anglicization word from Eastern Arrernte: Antyamwelyu, mixed with antyame (swag) and akngwelye (dingo, dog, wolf), which means swag dingo.

• Singular: Anchavalio

• Plural: Anchavalios

Blackslate Anchavalio was different from the Ashen Anchavalio; their fur was pitch black and had blackish gray skin, even gray-edged spikes.

Similar to the thylacine, the Anchavalio's jaw power was a moderate bite (~130 Newtons), not bone-crushing but useful for holding prey and having a very broad gape. The Anchavalio's endurance was designed for lengthy chases and sprints, much like that of the wolf and thylacine. Like wolves, they have long, thin limbs that are ideal for long-range hunting.

Being nocturnal and crepuscular, the Anchavalio had excellent hearing, night vision, and a keen sense of smell for tracking. Anchavalios have extremely stealthy coats that allow them to blend in with grasslands and woodlands thanks to their gray fur. The Anchavalio's tail spikes will protrude until it gets out of it. Although they will protrude when it uses tail slams and shoots tail spikes that their hair root was temporary,

The Blackslate Anchavalio enhanced itself while enraged, unleashing the dark particles on the entire body to enhance the darker element causing darkness.

Strictly carnivorous, the three species of Anchavalio consumed small to medium-sized mammals, including wallabies, possums, wombats, marmots, capybaras, lizards, snakes, salamanders, frogs, birds, and occasionally scavengers. The populations of smaller animals and herbivores were managed by the three species of Anchavalio.

Prior to the arrival of placentals and monotremes in Everrealm, the three Anchavalio species played an apex predator role in the ecology. Until early European settlers introduced dogs, cats, wolves, crocodiles, and caecilians, their primary rivals in Everrealm and Sawintir were essentially nonexistent. Native or introduced predators also threaten Anchavalio populations with foxes, wolves, tigers, cougars, lynxes, baboons, sea lions, dolphins and cats predating upon Anchavalio pups. Indeed all species of Anchavalios are habitat destruction and competing with both native, introduced, or invasive species.

Reproduction

The timing of the breeding season differs between species and also with the location of populations. The breeding season is from July to September, moving to the south in late January through March. The Anchavalios are pregnant for about 63 days and usually birth four to six pups. Like their ancestors, they do not have a complete pouch as in other marsupials but simply a flap of skin covering the teats. Both older males and older females die off because of an increase in free corticosteroids in the blood from birth. Much like antechinuses, torpor is a periodic lowering of body temperature and metabolic rate to reduce energy consumption in their own dens.

Breeding season:

• Likely spring to autumn (July–September).

Gestation:

• Very short (~40–50 days, unlike other marsupials).

Litter size:

• Up to 3 young, developing in the pouch for about 7 months.

Pouch life:

• After leaving the pouch, the young stayed in the den or followed the mother.

Parental care:

• Female provided all care.

• Reached sexual maturity at ~6 years.

Lifespan:

• Around 5–20 years in the wild; up to 30 in captivity.

Like the other Anchavalio, this animal was very careful and violent in the sense of natural behavior. Blackslate Anchavalio was different from any of the ancestors, the antechinus.

Under a government reward system funded by the UN, humans targeted the three species of Anchavalio in order to exterminate these malevolent marsupials; almost 2,000 of them were officially destroyed, and many more were not. Due to shooting, trapping, habitat degradation, and disease, they were all endangered in both Earth (as imported species, despite being introduced long ago) and Everrealm (their homeworld).

The Blackslate Anchavalio was native to the unknown regions of Sawintir and the Earth. It was reported that the animal was found in Switzerland and Tunisia as well.

• Movement Pattern: Nomadic

• Individual Type: Solo

• Population Trend: Increasing

• Population: 300,000

• Locomotion: Terrestrial

• Habitat: Taiga; Montane Grasslands and Shrublands; Temperate Coniferous Forests; Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests; Temperate Deciduous Forests, Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands; Subtropical Coniferous Forests; Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests; Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests; Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands; Salt Flats; Stone Forest; Tropical Coniferous Forests; Tropical Moist Broadleaf Forests; Tropical Dry Broadleaf Forests; Tropical Grasslands; Tropical Savannas and Shrublands; Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub; Flooded Grasslands and Savannas; Swamp; Bayous/Billabongs; Riparian; Wetland; Mangrove Forest; Cold Bamboo Forests; Tropical Bamboo Forests; Air-breathing Coral Reefs; Graveyard Vale; Mountain.

• Earth: 

  • Extant & Introduced (Resident): Belarus; Czechia; Egypt; France; Morocco; Poland; Russia; Serbia; Spain; Switzerland; Tunisia

• Sawintir/Everrealm: 

  • Extant (Resident): worldwide

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