Slicker
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These creatures usually live in very moist areas, lakes, swamps/marshes, rain forest, anywhere with plenty of water is usually a good place to find these creatures. They are roughly the same size as a small domestic feline.
They are carnivorous, they eat insects and any prey that is smaller than themselves (rodents, reptiles, fish, even birds). They have thin razor sharp teeth lining their gums and a long retractable tongue that is often used for hunting. Slickers do not have claws, instead they use their long rounded toes to stick and climb up almost any surface that won’t crumble beneath them.
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Mating Behavior
During mating season males compete for female attention, only males have large vocal sacks that enlarge when they call out to females. Females are more likely to make hissing like noises. When a couple comes together they find a river or body of water and make a ring of rocks in the shallow waters, there the female lays her eggs and viciously protects her nest until the eggs are ready to hatch. When they are the parents knock away the rocks allowing the tadkits to swim out into open water. This is as far as parenting goes as they go back to normal life.
Growth Cycle
The tadkits will have their life cycle forms drawn out shortly. They start off as just little balls with tails and over the period of 6 months surviving tadkits that have survived will grown just large enough to come onto land where they were learn on their own how to hunt and fend for themselves. Nearly a hundred eggs have been laid and hatched but it’s roughly only 3-8 babies will mature into adulthood.
Both Slickers will grow certain traits to adapt to their surroundings. Water based Slickers often will have webbed toes to help with swimming. Northern Slickers will hibernate in large groups in caverns, freezing their bodies with the cold and regenerating when temperature rises again. Others will simply learn to sometimes dim the the colors of their skin for camouflage.
Natural enemies consist of large birds of prey and usually animals much larger than themselves.
Physical Characteristics
Common
Common Slickers are normally bigger. Sometimes twice as big as their poison cousins. Their faces are naturally more square/rectangular shapes. Shorter and perkier noses to pull in more scents. They are big hunters, they will hunt and chase down their prey so they developed bigger muscles to track, chase, and attack. Their ears are normally set outwards and are shorter while their large round eyes are sharp.
Poison
Poison Slickers are naturally slender, lithe long bodies. They are more flexible. Their heads are longer, ears point in towards each other and usually are longer. The bridge of their noses are longer helping pull their face down towards the chin. Their eyes seem to usually be more almond shaped and slanted. They rely on their sneakiness, posing and waiting for their prey to come too close to them… Ready to pounce in a flash!
Unlike common slickers, poison types are much more sleek with naturally slender, lithe long bodies. They are long in the face and have a single color for eyes. Their Iris takes up the whole visual of the eye unlike commons where you can see the sclera (whites).
They have a mucus like substance that coats their flesh in poison to protect themselves from predators and other slickers. Commons will pick on them if they have the chance too since they’re bigger and bulkier than poisons. They also have venom, much like their flesh only it’s a LOT more condensed and will effect it’s prey much much more quickly and most likely be a lethal dose. They don’t like to waste it so rarely will they use it unless absolutely necessary.
They also groom obsessively. Making sure they’re always coated protectively and looking fine as hell. Poisons generally are a little vain.
Garden (Domesticated)
Garden slickers are more like blubber toads. Very soft and round but surprisingly smaller than common or even poison slickers. Because they are domesticated they don’t have the same energy levels as wild slickers and prefer not to hunt for themselves. But occasionally will bring their owner gifts in the form of smaller dead things to show appreciation. It is a high honor considering how lazy they are.
