Adzanian Forests

The Adzanian forests are a highly productive seasonal rainforest ecosystem. During the winter, the forests are dry and recieve little rain. During the summer however, the forests are pelted with torrential rain due to the monsoon winds of  the Indian Ocean. The organisms found in these forests are unique and endemic to the isles.

Scrapsnails

Scrapsnails (vulturcochleadae) are a family of snail found all throughout the adzanian isles. Giant African land snails took over the Adzanian isles in the early Calidocene and later evolved into the entire Scrapsnail family after their wide variety of niches were narrowed down by competition. They measure in at 7 inches in length and 4 inches in diameter at the shell. Their shell is a light brown with bright orange stripes. Orange stripes help scare less intelligent predators into thinking that they're poisonous, even though they aren't. 

Their diet consists of entirely dead matter. Carcasses, dead plants, and dead scrapsnails are no match for their stomachs, which have the ability to digest bone. They are predated on by other scrapsnails, birds, elephant shrews, and small rodents. They fend off predators by vomiting and producing lots of slime, which isn't very effective. They create a cocoon of slime during mating and both parents get pregnant. Both parents have a few hundred offspring and only a few make it to adulthood.

Hoopers

Hoopers (grallaeupupa) is a genus descended from Eurasian Hoopoes. They measure in at 3 feet in height, with half of that height being their legs. Their wingspan is about 5 feet in length. They come in a rust-brown color with black wings with orange stripes. They also have a thin black beak and a white crest.

Their diet consists of small animals as well as scrapsnails. They walk along the forest floor and once they find their prey, they jump on their prey, pin them down,  ball up their feet, and punch their prey to death before swallowing them whole. The only times that they fly are to escape predators, migrate long distances, and reach their nests.

Their nests are hidden in bushes which would normally be a horrible idea. However, the chicks are able to defend themselves with projectile feces. Both parents take care of the chicks, with the father taking a more active role. The mating ritual for Hoopers consists of a fight to the death between rival males and the female building a nest with the victor.

Snotters

Snotters (mucuscomesus) are a small genus of elephant shrews. They are specifically descended from Four-toed elephant shrews. Snotters measure in at 2 feet in length, not counting the foot long tail. They also measure in at 1.2 feet in height. Their coats are a light brown, except for the white fur on their heads.

They have long back legs and a flexible spine, which gives them to ability to change posture. They stand up on their hind legs and grab fruit and small insects with their trunk. Their trunk measures in at 6 inches in length. Nostrils at the end of the trunk are used to suction food, which they shoot into their mouth. 

Snotters have an incredible sense of smell. During mating season, males give off a trail of pheromones to show females where to find them. Females will sniff out their chosen male out and the male will immediately engage in a chase. This pair will mate for life and produce several offspring, with only one being born at a time.

Flutterferns

Flutterferns (filixpudicadae) are a genus of shameplant found in the clearings of the Adzanian Isles. They are found everywhere in the forest during the dry season, where they have plently of light. The flowers are magenta and red and are pollinated by wind and flies. The flowers last for a week and after dying off, they drop about 30-35 seeds.Their seeds remain in the seed bank state for months on end and sprout whenever there is enough light. 

Flutterferns measure in at 2 feet in height and 3 feet in diameter. They grow long branches with leaves growing along them decreasing in size, similar to a how a fern branches out. When startled, Flutterferns open and close their leaves every few seconds by moving water and ions from their cells and toward the leaf joints, which causes the leaves to lose their weight and force them to fold upwards. The leaves come in an irridescent blue-green, which causes the leaves to shine whenever the plant is disturbed. The glimmers of light and the moving of the plants is meant to scare predators, and sometimes it works.