What is a Long-tailed Fennex?
A Fennex is a rare subspecies of marsupial with long legs, ears and fluffy tails that are used to blanket themselves, normally found in warm but not hot climates inhabitting large, open plains. They come in varied natural colours, normally with some form of stripes on their bodies for camoflauge, and otherwise simple coat patterns.
Colouration + Coat patterns
While most Fennex have stripes of some kind, whether they be single lines running along their bodies, small dashes or ones that look like outlines, there are types of Fennex which do not; these are not subspecies of Fennex but are generally not as welcomed into the pod as they can be mistaken for other animals. These types of Fennex have speckles instead, resembling appoloosa horses, and while they are not rarer the spots gene is not often carried through into young unless both parents are speckled [1 in 4 chance] - for this reason it is often seen as a mutation.
Fennex with speckles are sometimes abanndonned by their mothers [unless mother is speckled also] and are easily mistaken by other Fennex to be rodents when young.
They are often harder to interact with, not used to being around other Fennex and can take on the traits of whatever other animal they live near when alone.
I was going to put this boy up for adoption but decided against it, he's my second Fennex and his name is Lyle, he's a speckled Fennex, so does not have stripes of any kind.
