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James Baillie
@JubalBarca@scholar.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

I wrote a thing! This is no. 5 of my 'Unexpected Bestiary' articles where I introduce you to wildlife you may not have come across and then speculate on how it could be used in fictions and fantasy worlds.

In this issue, we meet an amphibian that might be escaping Mephistopheles, a bird that sacrificed effective flight for junk food that makes it burp constantly, and what might be the drunkest creature in existence...

https://exilian.co.uk/article.php?id=166189

#TTRPG#WritingCommunity#Wildlife#CreativeToots

A cormorant sitting on a tree branch. It is a black and grey bird with a yellow face, a large head and a slightly hooked end to the beak, and a vivid green eye.
A cormorant sitting on a tree branch. It is a black and grey bird with a yellow face, a large head and a slightly hooked end to the beak, and a vivid green eye.
A cormorant sitting on a tree branch. It is a black and grey bird with a yellow face, a large head and a slightly hooked end to the beak, and a vivid green eye.
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toerror
@toerror@mastodon.gamedev.place replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@JubalBarca A cormorant popped up out of the canal next to me on the way home a while back, fish in mouth which it immediately swallwed down while half submerged. They look so strange, swimming along a foot lower than the ducks, head above the water like a periscope.
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James Baillie
@JubalBarca@scholar.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@toerror Yes, there's definitely something about a lot of the ways they act that makes them seem a bit different to what we're used to even from other water-birds. I do love them, though, they're wonderful creatures 😊 I've had the good fortune to see pygmy cormorants a few times in recent years too which are adorable.
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