Woolly Sawhead
“ The woolly one was a close friend of two species found in the taiga biome. Because of its bigger size and similar fit, it competes with Highland Falaqalku. ”
– Dominique Llorente
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Class: Vesperosauria
Order: Chiropterosauria
Suborder: Volanosauriforma
Family: Volanosauridae
Subfamily: Volanosaurinae
Genus: Xipharhinopteryx
Species: Xipharhinopteryx friguconmona
Descendant: †Varanopidae
Named by: Thomas Henryson
Year Published: 2780
Size: wingspan up to 3.4 meters long, 1.95 meters tall in height; 90.3 pounds in weight
Activity: Diurnal 🌅
Thermoregulate: Endotherm
Type(s):
Synapsids (Vesperosaurs)
Fictional
Title(s): Wooly Hacker
Pantheon(s):
Reinachan/Ityoselan 🇺🇳💠
Sawintiran 🇺🇳✨
Time Period: Holocene
Alignment: Docile
Threat Level: ★★★
Diet: Omnivorous 🥩🌿
Element(s): Water 🌊, Air 🌬️, Ice ❄️
Inflict(s): Waterblight 🌊, Iceblight ❄️, Bleeding 🩸, Elemental Res Down 🔽, Mucus 💦
Weakness(es): Rock 🪨 (60% immune), Electric ⚡, Metal 🔩, Sound 🎵
Casualties: ???
Based On: fictional
Conservation Status: Near Threatened (NT) – IUCN Red List
The Woolly Sawhead (Xipharhinopteryx friguconmona) is one of the fictional species of synapsid introduced in Worldcraft: The Center.
The combination of the words saw (act like a Carpenter saw) and head, or forehead, is called a sawhead. Owing to the long rostrum's toothy edges and beak-like structures.
Singular: Sawhead
Plural: Sawheads
The Woolly Sawhead has a long skull with a saw-like rostrum on the nose and teeth-like spines on the bottom, small and pointed ears, teeth hidden in their lips, a long neck, four fingers on their arms, wings similar to pterosaurs, digitigrade legs with white small spurs at the knee and five toes, and smooth and blunt-resistant skin. The Woolly Sawhead has thick brown fur, standard brown skin with dark brown on top of sawnose, a white belly, and a long tail with diamond-shaped and a single stinger at the tip of a tail. Their eye color is brown and their spines, teeth, and claws are dark brown.
The Sawhead is a skilled aerial acrobat who can glide and twist with ease. Its forked tail allows it to steer and maneuver precisely, even in severe gusts. It can fly for hours on thermals with few wingbeats. The Sawhead has extraordinary eyesight, detecting small prey from more than 100 meters away, and its eyes have evolved to perceive motion swiftly and track prey even while flying fast. The Sawhead either stabbed or sawed with the saw rostrum in a manner similar to that of a carpenter.
Unlike the two of them, the Woolly Sawhead spits iced saliva to freeze foes.
The Wooly Sawhead is in the middle of the food chain. They are omnivorous and consist of fruits, fungi, mistletoes, turnips, blueberries, mulberries, bamboo shoots, and even small animals like worms, fish, voles, lemmings, moles, rats, and others. They spotted a tree with dozens of sawheads perched on its branches in the herds called "Murderer of Sawheads."
Unlike many of them, the Sawheads have normal thermal sight, or thermography, used for seeing enemies behind the wall to detect heat. All three species of sawheads have deadly rostrums with sets of teeth that can cut or saw off flesh, paper, clothes, armor, ice, glass, and even plants. The wooly sawhead is a very special animal; it possesses its own ice sac on their throat, causes freezing foes, and performs the piercing attack move to impaled. The main predators of this animal were varieties of fauna in Horatio, like synapsids, wolves, falcons, and other dragons.
All Sawhead species are solitary or observed in breeding pairs; they are fiercely territorial but normally avoid humans. However, they can be dangerous to people, although assaults are uncommon. Their massive size, saw on the nose, and aggressive disposition when defending their territory allow them to inflict considerable injuries. Attacks on humans are rare and usually occur in certain situations, such as during nest protection or when the saw-nose winged synapsid is provoked, although they continue to pose a hazard as flying pests.
The Wooly Sawhead was an introduced species to the northernmost reaches of the Horatio region on Reinachos, one of exoplanets in Cygnus. It was introduced from Sawintir under taiga-like environmental conditions. It has mountainous terrain and the polar, taiga, subpolar, and tundra regions.
Movement Pattern: Nomadic
Individual Type: Solo
Population Trend: stable
Population: unknown
Locomotion: airborne
Habitat: Tundra; 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; Mushroom Forests; Mushroom Fields; Deserts and Xeric Shrublands; Badlands; Flooded Grasslands and Savannas; Swamp; Bayous/Billabongs; Riparian; Wetland; Mangrove Forest; Cold Bamboo Forests; Tropical Bamboo Forests; Air-breathing Coral Reefs; Graveyard Vale; Mountain; Sky; Karst Cave; Karst Spring; Lush Cavern; Crystal Cave; Magnetic Cave; Radiated Vale; Radiated Citadel; Lava Tube; Volcano; Lava Trench; Basalt Delta; Warm Ghost Town; Cold Ghost Town; Ruined Skyscraper.
Reinachos:
Extant & Introduced: Descartes-Cortes Cordillera
Sawintir/Everrealm:
Extant: Norberg; Vizkeros
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The synapsids emerge from evolution and unique wildlife conservation except for the dinosaur species: Deinonychus. The voliantens are flying bat-like synapsids. Also looked up there are just studied by scientists in conversation and protected by Royal family members.
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