Bunyip

Domain: Eukaryota

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Mammalia

Infraorder: Marsupialia

Order: Diprotodontia

Family: Lacopseudoleonidae

Genius: Lacopseudoleo

Species: Lacopseudoleo ferox

Descendant: Thylacoleo sp.

Named by: Richard Hierro-Baptiste

Year Published: none

Size: 3.7 meters (12.1 feet) in body length (including a 1-metre- [3.3-foot-] long tail) and weigh up to 423 kg (about 933 pounds), same size as the Siberian tiger

Lifespan: 12 years

Activity: Diurnal 🌅

Thermoregulate: Endotherm

Type(s): 

• Synapsids

  • Mammals (Thylacoleonids)

• Mythical

• Cryptid

• Guardian

Title(s): 

• Billabong Demon

• Last Surviving Thylacoleonid

Other Name(s)/Alias(es): 

• bahnyip (1812)

• بوڽيڤ (Arabic script for Aboriginal Australians)

Pantheon(s): 

• Terran/Gaian 🇺🇳

  • Australian 🇦🇺

Time Period: Early Pleistocene-Holocene

Alignment: Curious

Threat Level: ★★★★★★

Diet: Carnivorous 🥩🥓🐟🪲 

Element(s): Water 🌊, Rock 🪨, Dark 🌑

Inflicts: Waterblight 🌊, Rockblight 🪨, Stench 💩, Bleeding 🩸

Weaknesses: Leaf 🌿, Poison 🤢

Casualties: 

PAPRIN

• • ugh

TROQA

• • ugh

Based On: 

• none

Conservation Status: 

• Earth: Critically Endangered (CR) – IUCN Red List

• Reinachos: Vulnerable (VU) – IUCN Red List

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It was included in Rapunzel's Tangled in 2024 because, although there is evidence of non-mammalian synapsids in Australia, such as a non-mammalian cynodont, no new species has been discovered since. So, I put the Thylacoleo as their descendant and as an approved being. 

The bunyip is the last member of the family Thylacoleonidae, belonging to the marsupial group known as the marsupial lions, which includes Wakaleo to Thylacoleo. It holds the position of apex predator in Australian ecosystems, and there are currently at least nine regional variations of the bunyip throughout Aboriginal lands.

The morphological characteristics of the bunyip are similar to those of the Thylacoleo, save for its digitigrade webbed feet, yellowish bronze waterproof fur, short snout, muscular forelimbs, yellow-to-brown crocodile-like scaly skin on its tail, and fish-like fin-shaped ears. If we tried to swim less and more terrestrially, the billabong was employed as a strategy habitat to capture the opponent or prey. This evolved from the Thylacoleo. A round head, an elongated neck (probably their forelimbs), and a body that resembles an ox, hippopotamus, or manatee are some descriptions.

Similar to Thylacoleo, the bunyip possessed the strongest biting force per body mass of any known mammal, and its enormous shearing premolars could cut through both hide and bone. The bunyip was an ambush predator that could kill enormous creatures like giant kangaroos, crocodiles, emus, cassowaries, camels, horses, water buffalos, or young diprotodonts by grappling prey with its forelimbs after hiding on water or a tree.

As a semiaquatic animal, the bunyip has an ecological niche with lions, tigers, cougars, jaguars, quolls, and gibbons. They are renowned for their exceptional swimming abilities and their ability to swim astonishingly far. Underwater, this species can hold its breath for little more than 30 minutes. The bunyip leaps gracefully and swiftly through trees or rocks with its long arms and powerful fingers. Bunyips are known to shoot or spit water from their mouths as a unique hunting strategy, to confuse enemies, and for social or courtship purposes.

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Since the bunyip is believed to be the next apex predator in contemporary Australia, Thylacoleo would be transferred to it. They hunt by ambush, usually in water, but occasionally on trees, shrubs, or even abandoned buildings. All kangaroos and wallabies, potoroos, quolls, snakes, emus, cassowaries, juvenile megafauna such as Diprotodon, mice, echidnas, platypuses, frogs, non-toxic fish, and even invasive species are among their primary prey. Quinkana (terrestrial crocodile), thylacine (less strong), Megalania (huge monitor lizard), dingoes, and humans (both Indigenous Australians and outsiders) are their principal rivals, competitors, and foes.

The bunyip was an opportunistic scavenger that used ambush techniques to capture huge prey. For this species, their ecosystem functions included controlling prey and enemy populations, creating wallows and access points for other species, transporting nutrients between freshwater and marine ecosystems, and decomposing dead prey and enemies to produce new plant and fungal life.

Reproduction

Bunyips exhibit classic marsupial reproduction:

• Breeding System

  1. Polygynous: Males compete for access to females.

  2. Year-round breeding, but dependent on rainfall and food.

• Reproductive Strategy

  1. Gestation: ~20 days

  2. Newborn (joey): Extremely undeveloped; crawls to the pouch immediately.

  3. Pouch life: About 4–8 months.

  4. Continues to suckle until ~10 months.

In contrast to marsupial lions, bunyips are shy and unlikely to become into "problem animals" that bother visitors and steal food. You would be fortunate to see this species, but you might hear it if you visit its natural habitats.

Although the older bunyip is extremely hostile and may bring enemies to their waters, they usually only act aggressively against prey or when they feel threatened, not always toward people.

In Australia, the bunyip is indigenous to grasslands with billabongs and arid deserts. It is also sporadically seen in metropolitan areas with water features.

• Movement Pattern: Not a Migrant

• Individual Type: Solo

• Population Trend: Increasing

• Population: 

  • Earth: 4200

  • Reinachos (2600-present): unknown

• Locomotion: Amphibious

• 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, Savannas and Shrublands; Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub; Badlands; Flooded Grasslands and Savannas; Swamp; Bayous/Billabongs; Riparian; Wetland; Mangrove Forest; Cold Bamboo Forests; Tropical Bamboo Forests; Air-breathing Coral Reefs; Graveyard Vale; Candyland; Mountain; Sky; Warm River; Cold River; Lukewarm River; Subterranean River; Warm Pond; Cold Pond; Warm Lake; Cold Lake; Warm Littoral; Cold Littoral; Warm Intertidal; Cold Intertidal; Radiated Citadel; Warm Ghost Town; Cold Ghost Town; Ruined Skyscraper.

• Earth: 

  • Extant (Resident): Australia

• Reinachos/Ityosel: 

  • Extant & Introduced: none

• Sawintir/Everrealm: 

  • Extant & Introduced: none

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Pre-story - 70,000 BCE – 1989 AD

The bunyip, a marsupial lion, is frequently portrayed as a terrifying animal that may sometimes entice and eat humans, especially women and children. The bunyip has been interpreted in a variety of ways, including as a terrifying creature or even a misunderstood spirit, while having its roots in Indigenous Australian folklore.

The bunyip has appeared in African, European, Indigenous American, and Asian settlement traditions. European and Asian settlers also adopted the bunyip as part of their own narratives, sometimes transforming it into a less frightening or even a friendly figure.

Historya Davvun - 1990-1999

The Abstergo Industries slaughtered the majority of bunyips, and they intend to get revenge on the members of the Assassin Brotherhood, Monster Hunter, and Templar Knight in order to completely eradicate these three groups as criminals from the earth. Prior to that, Diana Spencer trusted all Bunyips since she never hurts marsupial lions, and the species never forgets her as she ceased animal attacks between people and animals. After she passed away, the bunyips snarled at the members of Abstergo Industries ever since. With Asian, European, and Aboriginal Australian allies, Guaiya Padilla and Adelaide Hoffman arrived in Queensland with the intention of calming these creatures.

Pre-TROQA – 2600-2810

The "Sky People" brought the bunyip to the exoplanet of Cygnus, also known as Reinachos or Ityosel. It was then sent to the present-day continent of Pascua, which is the second "homeland" of Pagans, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Samaritans, Shamans, and Aboriginal Australians. In order to stop hate crimes, Aboriginal Australians utilize all Australian wildlife as soldiers and terrorists, whereas Muslims and Jews subject the bunyip and other Australian wildlife as war animals used for terrorism.

The regulations of the Five Pillars of Islam and the Eightfold Path caused the non-whites to turn against the whites, blacks, and browns, which backfired on the white settlers. Avoid the scenarios; in Reinachos, they successfully introduced Native Americans who lived in the desert to the continent. However, as the struggle between the semiaquatic marsupial lion and humans intensifies, the bunyip escalates the occurrences.

Two Lights – 2880-2999

Some bunyips from Queensland are imported and trained by Morrison family to fight against any future threats.

Past and Present Incidents - Individuals

• Terran/Gaian

  • n/a

• Berbanian/Hirawhassan

  • n/a

• Reinachos/Ityoselese

  • n/a

• Delphian/Thatrollwan

  • n/a

• Sawintiran

  • n/a 

• Jotunheim

  • n/a

The Recollections of Queen Arianna - Individuals

• Terran/Gaian

  • n/a

• Berbanian/Hirawhassan

  • n/a

• Reinachos/Ityoselese

  • n/a

• Delphian/Thatrollwan

  • n/a

• Sawintiran

  • n/a

• Jotunheim

  • n/a

Biological Relative

• shit

Allies

• shit

Enemies

• shit

2024 Renders

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunyip

• https://www.deviantart.com/ognimdo2002/art/Bunyip-881406378

• https://www.deviantart.com/ognimdo2002/art/Bunyip-2024-1116111849