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Folderback Rock Python (http://media.web.britannica.com/eb-media/79/160079-004-E3038FB0.jpg)
Name: Folderback Rock Python.
Designation: Non-Sentient
Homeworld: Terra Damatias
Language: None.
Average Lifespan: 50 years.
Estimated Population: 4 million.
Average height of adults: 0.3 meters.
Average length of adults: 9 meters.
Skin color: Brown, gold and black.
Hair color: None.
Distinctions: The Folderback Python is a thick animal rippled with muscle. Its distinctly patterened scales act as perfect camoflage to escape detection within rocks. WIthin its head, lies powerful fangs and jaws, primed to deliver a crippling blow.
Breathes: Type One.
Strengths:
+Virgin Birth: Females of the species have evolved with a gland which secretes semen into the vulva. In times with little to no mates, female pythons use this to impregnate themselves.
+Big Hugs!: The python isn't a generic constrictor. Like other pythons, the folderback is a constrictor, and strangles its prey. It is very goot at its job.
+Desert Camo: The camouflage of the snake means that most who come close to it, haven't seen it till it's far too late. This doesn't work too well in the jungle however.
+Biological Sensor Array: The Folderback's tongue is able to receive data on animal locations for about a six kilometer radius through wind. This creates a sort of internalized radar of sorts, and when it draws close to its prey, becomes an infa-red image.
+Endurance Fighter: Able to traverse the most difficult dust storms, and survive scraps with mastiffs, the Folderback is a fighter. One which can endure incredible injuries. There have been cases of pythons being impaled, and still fighting back. The snake has strong survival capabilities.
Weaknesses:
-I Can't Hear You: The folderback, like most snakes, can't hear.
-Long Pregnancy: The folderbacks drawback is that they carry their young for a full three years before birth. This slows down an already slow snake, and means that they often fall to Mastiffs.
-Mastiff Packs: While lone Mastiffs are easy prey, the packs the hounds hunt in mean that the python often can't defend itself. Since their introduction, the pythons population has crashed.
-Slow and Steady: The python is a slow beast, which means most of its hunting is undertaken when other creatures are at their lows. It can't escape its predators very well, and is incredibly slow.
Races: None.
Diet: Swamp Leviathans, Eopies, Jindaburras, Mastiffs, Simpsan Crawler, Dartells Taipans, Smoulder Pythons, Wamp Rats and Rylers Scorpions.
Communication: None.
Culture: No culture to speak of. The snakes are a brutal creature, and attack each other, except when mating. There is no set time for mating, and females go through periods of "heat" which means they attract males with pheromones. Mating takes three days, which leave the couple vulnerable to attacks. And then, once finished, the female waits three whole years for pregnancy to finish. Even then, only one snake baby is born.
Technology level: None.
General behaviour: The Folderback is a patient predator, tracking its prey for nearly whole days for the chance to strike. They're s defensive creature, and unlike most, only attack if hungry or a perceived threat. The folderback is a persistent predator, and usually kills at night, when other animals are at their weakest. It will spend all day tracking its prey, and attack as soon as it sees they're asleep. The folderback is hostile to sentients, its massive size has meant that humans fit right into its diet. Because of that, sentients are told to never camp out in the desert near suspected python sightings.
History: None
Notable Player-Characters: None
Intent: To add wildlife to Terra Damnatias
