BASIC BIOLOGY-
-Live for up to forty years.
-Four eyes. Stalk eyes are prehensile. Four perfectly transparent eyelid-like membranes on each eye to clean the eye and protect it from dust: two vertical, two horizontal.
-Amphibious. No nostrils, only heat pits on the upper lip. They breath in through their mouth, out through their gills, regardless of if they're on land or in water.
-They only have fur in their ears, where it is fine and thick to keep dust out of their sensitive ears. The rest of their body is snake-like scales, and for the tail, thin membrane-like skin.
-About the size of a small mastiff. Up to mid-thigh on the average human.
-Four short, stout legs with massive, strong claws and paws, used for digging through ocean floor sand.
COLOURATION-
-Their base is often, but not always, some kind of green, blue, or teal.
-Almost always have a faint rosy tint on their base.
-Markings can't be too bright, but can be any colour and any shape.
-Fins are always a bright colour, but please nothing eyeburning.
BEHAVIOUR-
-Easily domesticable. Like you would a snake, but easier.
-They are HIGHLY polygamous. It is rare to have a strictly monogamous Gabberstaag.
-They mate for life. This means once of a flock of Gabberstaag unite, they rarely ever separate until they die.
-Gabberstaag are highly sociable, but can be raised alone and still be perfectly healthy and happy.
-They are essentially giant snakes with arms when it comes to feeding and handling: They get very bitey before and just after feeding if you aren't careful, and are either jumpy or bitey if they are headshy and you touch them on the head.
-Like snakes, they're all naturally headshy, but they can be trained out of it.
-They are very good lifelong companions, especially for a person who lives alone.
-50/50% hetero/homosexuality rates.
-A female who lays eggs will place the bright pink fertile ones underneath the rest of the hard, black infertile ones to deter predators and competitor males.
BREEDING HABITS-
-Females produce up to 200 eggs per breeding. 100 are fertilized, and up to eighty grow to adulthood. Eggs vary greatly in size.
-Infertile eggs solidify into very hard, black pearl-like objects in under and hour. Humans commonly use these as mourning gifts or condolences for parents who lost children.
-Fertile eggs turn bright pink and retain the gelatinous consistency.
-Females carry all eggs in their tails, which greatly reduces their swimming efficiency and makes them easy prey. All of her mates flock around her to protect her from predators or competition males.
OFFSPRING-
-Due to the translucence of the Gabberstaag egg, it is easy to see the infant in the egg once it is near hatching. This is due to the size of it pressing up against the walls of the egg, increasing the transparency of it. Younger eggs are dark pink and murky, and thus you will not see an infant inside of them until they are nearing hatching.
-Gabberstaag young are called "babes".
-Babes are born naked, without the fin/membrane, which grows in about a week about hatching.
-Babes develop claws three days after hatching.
-Babes eat the remnants of their eggs once hatched.
DIET AND HABITAT-
-Subsist mainly on flounder, crustaceans, eels, and other sea floor dwelling creatures.
-They live primarily around reefs and coastal shelves, where the floor is easy to reach and just malleable enough and there is a good supply of either varied wildlife or potentially delectable detritus, respectively.
-In their natural habitat, they dig burrows deep into ocean floor. The deep ones are dens, the shallow ones are nests.
-They need sunlamps if kept in domestication, as they sun for around a single hour per day.
MISCELLANEOUS TRIVIA-
-Gabberstaag is plural and singular.
-Gabberstaag, if left unchecked and not hunted, will overpopulate so badly they have been known to destroy ecosystems.
-Because of the previous, Gabberstaag are not only exceptionally good pets, they are also common meat. Fertile eggs are a very common meals in hubs of Gabberstaag populations.
-Infertile eggs are a delicacy among humans. A special hormone that is easily harvested from a female without harming her is used to keep them from hardening for weeks on end, and is coveted at restaurants that serve them.
-Live for up to forty years.
-Four eyes. Stalk eyes are prehensile. Four perfectly transparent eyelid-like membranes on each eye to clean the eye and protect it from dust: two vertical, two horizontal.
-Amphibious. No nostrils, only heat pits on the upper lip. They breath in through their mouth, out through their gills, regardless of if they're on land or in water.
-They only have fur in their ears, where it is fine and thick to keep dust out of their sensitive ears. The rest of their body is snake-like scales, and for the tail, thin membrane-like skin.
-About the size of a small mastiff. Up to mid-thigh on the average human.
-Four short, stout legs with massive, strong claws and paws, used for digging through ocean floor sand.
COLOURATION-
-Their base is often, but not always, some kind of green, blue, or teal.
-Almost always have a faint rosy tint on their base.
-Markings can't be too bright, but can be any colour and any shape.
-Fins are always a bright colour, but please nothing eyeburning.
BEHAVIOUR-
-Easily domesticable. Like you would a snake, but easier.
-They are HIGHLY polygamous. It is rare to have a strictly monogamous Gabberstaag.
-They mate for life. This means once of a flock of Gabberstaag unite, they rarely ever separate until they die.
-Gabberstaag are highly sociable, but can be raised alone and still be perfectly healthy and happy.
-They are essentially giant snakes with arms when it comes to feeding and handling: They get very bitey before and just after feeding if you aren't careful, and are either jumpy or bitey if they are headshy and you touch them on the head.
-Like snakes, they're all naturally headshy, but they can be trained out of it.
-They are very good lifelong companions, especially for a person who lives alone.
-50/50% hetero/homosexuality rates.
-A female who lays eggs will place the bright pink fertile ones underneath the rest of the hard, black infertile ones to deter predators and competitor males.
BREEDING HABITS-
-Females produce up to 200 eggs per breeding. 100 are fertilized, and up to eighty grow to adulthood. Eggs vary greatly in size.
-Infertile eggs solidify into very hard, black pearl-like objects in under and hour. Humans commonly use these as mourning gifts or condolences for parents who lost children.
-Fertile eggs turn bright pink and retain the gelatinous consistency.
-Females carry all eggs in their tails, which greatly reduces their swimming efficiency and makes them easy prey. All of her mates flock around her to protect her from predators or competition males.
OFFSPRING-
-Due to the translucence of the Gabberstaag egg, it is easy to see the infant in the egg once it is near hatching. This is due to the size of it pressing up against the walls of the egg, increasing the transparency of it. Younger eggs are dark pink and murky, and thus you will not see an infant inside of them until they are nearing hatching.
-Gabberstaag young are called "babes".
-Babes are born naked, without the fin/membrane, which grows in about a week about hatching.
-Babes develop claws three days after hatching.
-Babes eat the remnants of their eggs once hatched.
DIET AND HABITAT-
-Subsist mainly on flounder, crustaceans, eels, and other sea floor dwelling creatures.
-They live primarily around reefs and coastal shelves, where the floor is easy to reach and just malleable enough and there is a good supply of either varied wildlife or potentially delectable detritus, respectively.
-In their natural habitat, they dig burrows deep into ocean floor. The deep ones are dens, the shallow ones are nests.
-They need sunlamps if kept in domestication, as they sun for around a single hour per day.
MISCELLANEOUS TRIVIA-
-Gabberstaag is plural and singular.
-Gabberstaag, if left unchecked and not hunted, will overpopulate so badly they have been known to destroy ecosystems.
-Because of the previous, Gabberstaag are not only exceptionally good pets, they are also common meat. Fertile eggs are a very common meals in hubs of Gabberstaag populations.
-Infertile eggs are a delicacy among humans. A special hormone that is easily harvested from a female without harming her is used to keep them from hardening for weeks on end, and is coveted at restaurants that serve them.
