WeronikaM_Week01

• Underworld Demons - Big alien creature (featured in the beginning of the story).

Anatomy inspired creature: Leopard - Snake 

Creature design categorie: Alien 

apex predator

Musculels are pronounced, impressive, strong and build for combat and running. He uses his mouth and tail to attack. The senses of the creature are so strongly developed to find pray but also to make sure no other same species comes in his territory, except possible mates. He has armor plates on his body, to protect against attacks. 

They are ambush predators, able to wait for hours waiting for prey to wander by. Like snakes are they able to use their forked tongue to ‘’taste the air’’. On top of that has this creature also a set of functioning nostrils, known as heat pits. There are four on each side of the mouth. These pits allow the creature to see heat and so is able to track animals by the heat signals that their prey gives off. The creature also relies on eyes, having no eyelids (and therefore cannot blink) and instead have eye caps to keep debris and other irritants away from their eyes. Their pupils are vertical and have a series of “pinholes” which widen at night, allowing these creatures to pick up as much light as possible. These eyes also have many more light sensitive cells than human eyes, giving the animal the ability to detect objects and even to see colors at night. They can see up to 350 times better than humans dim light. They eye pattern provide camouflage

Questions;

• Nocturnal or diurnal

• Cold or warm blooded

• Diet. Eats meat.

• Intelligence. Smart; Plans strategies before attacking, like snake heat detectors, 

• Habitat conditions. Rainforest; understory layer.  

• Travel; Uses his 4 Legs. Walks and runs. 

• Adaptations. Prey became faster and better at hiding, so he has created heat pits and a air tasting tongue, to find hidden pray. 

• Relationship. Female needs to have sex with male to create pups. 

• Young; Females take care of the small 2 - 5 young, until they become grown up and leave her. If in need the female will eat the young to survive. 

• Camouflage; Melanism; Black, with leopard like patterns and spots on the back of his head (to look like eyes from behind). 

• Display; wip

• Sex; Female.