Xamoyan Bestiary

Name: Vulcanoxamos

Length: 15-20 ft.

Weight: 7-8 tons

Diet: Carnivore

Habitat: Chasm

Description: A kind of archosaur adapted to digging for food. Their claws are sharp enough to cut through stone and their tails end in a spade shape that they use to throw dirt and rocks away. Thankfully they are not very aggressive. The males have large protrusions coming out of their cheeks.

Name: Tarboxamos

Length: 9-10 ft..

Weight: 100-140 lbs.

Diet: Carnivore

Habitat: Jungle/prairies

Description: Evolving from the same ancestors as Xamatonictis, it became a predator of larger prey. They hunt in packs, bounding around like kangaroos and prey on smaller animals like other mammals, birds, and small dinosaurs. They use their sharp fangs to take down their prey. Despite being related they often hunt Xamatonictis and they themselves are prey to terror birds.

Name: Xamatonictis

Length: 2-3 ft.

Weight: 4-5 lbs.

Diet: Insectivore

Habitat: Jungle

Description: A relative to the ancient leptictidium. They have remained virtually unchanged but are more intelligent and hunt insects like stag beetles.

Name: Starback rattlesnake

Length: 10-13 ft.

Weight: 200-220 lbs.

Diet: Carnivore

Habitat: Desert

Description: Named for the markings on its back, it is one of the most venomous snakes on Xamoyos. Like most rattlesnakes it uses its rattle as a warning when threatened, and if this does not work they go in for a venomous bite. The venom can kill the average human in 2 hours if left untreated.

Name: Xamatovenator

Length: 15-20 ft.

Weight: 1-2 tons

Diet: Carnivore

Habitat: Jungle/prairies

Description: A smaller cousin to Tartaraxamos, it is the only predator that would even attempt to hunt a Xamatocentrus. They do this by hunting in large packs of 10. In addition to the stegosaur they also hunt small sauropods and hadrosaurs and they mate for life. Whenever they make a kill only the dominant pair gets first pickings, any attempts to circumvent this pecking order is met with aggression and they are often riddled with scars as a result.

Name: Xamatocentrus

Length: 30-40 ft.

Weight: 7-8 tons

Diet: Herbivore

Habitat: Prairie

Description: The largest stegosaur on Xamoyos. They are normally harmless unless startled, males have a huge shoulder spike used to impress females. Unusually for a stegosaur their back is arranged with a mix of spikes and plates. They live in herds of about 10-20 and they will mate for life. Quilloxamos will sometimes hide underneath them for protection. Virtually nothing will challenge these dinosaurs except for Xamatovenator.

Name: Xamoyoadapis

Kingdom: Animalia

Class: Mammalia

Order: Primate

Length: 12-24 in. (4ft nose to tail)

Weight: 2-3 lbs.

Diet: Omnivore

Habitat: Arboreal/Jungle

Lifespan: 50-75 years

Vocalization: https://youtu.be/BYoPiwqWSE4

Description: Adapa or Adapis is a primato-sapien or proto-primate related to plesiadapiformes, hominids, squirrels, lemurs, lorises, nagapies and great apes. Xamoyoadapis is both sentient and sapient, being genetically engineered in a Xamoyoan research facility, possibly by InGen, Inc. or a sister group which combined human DNA with animal DNA to create a new intelligent species.

Adapis is a very small rodent-like arboreal creature which lives in trees and small holes. They are omnivorous carnivores or insectivores who eat mostly nuts, berries, small lizards and insects. They are mostly quadrupedal but can also be semi-bipedal. They have opposable thumbs and are capable of building or crafting very basic tools and architecture. They can also speak and are capable of learning, solving puzzles and acting very human-like in many ways. They have a 2 foot long body and a 2.5 foot long tail. Although their average length is 4 feet long, when standing on their hind legs, they are only 2 feet tall.

Xamoyoadapis has a short lifespan which involves rapid maturity and a high sex drive. A few days after birth, their hairless bodies become furry and they start to open their eyes and move around. At this time they will stay in their nest and suckle from their mother's breast milk. They are very tiny, about the size of a human thumb, and so their pups (if male) or kits (if female) generally come in huge litters of 10-15 at a time, since 50% of them usually don't live past their first year in the wild. As pups they will learn to bark, chirp, grab things and play.

After two weeks, they are fully mature and will leave their nests to forage or hunt. Like all monkeys and lemurs, lorises and other primates, Adapis uses its tail much like a third arm, and also uses its hind legs to grab things with opposable toes. They seem to prefer walking bipedally on the ground, but resort to more squirrelly movements in the trees. They are a diurnal species, but they can see at night also just not as good. Adapis lacks strong taste buds but has incredible hearing, smell and eyesight averaging 2.5x that of humans.



Because they are so small, they are prey to most other animals, but they are very fast and unpredictable, being very hard to catch. Adapis has two bucktoothed protruding incisors on its upper jaw like a squirrel, but it is actually more closely related to lorises and happens to be a unique and venomous species of mammal. Their bite can be fatal to humans if not treated properly, but luckily they are easily frightened and tend to reserve their venom for extreme cases and for conflicts with their own species. Xamoyoadapis is not considered a threat to humans, or to pretty much anything else that is larger than them.

Xamoyoan turtles, nocturnal owls, snakes, dinosaurs and other larger species prey on these tiny rodents in the jungle. The xamoyoadapis itself tends to feed on dragonflies, larvae, worms, tarantulas, centipedes and small baby reptiles or eggs whenever it finds an opportunity. They are also scavengers with a strange curiosity and attraction to shiny metal objects, often collecting bones and tinkers, gizmos, feathers and just plain garbage or other treasures that they might find in the wilderness. Adapas make interesting pets and can be trained to perform certain tasks. They can even learn to speak different languages, but their 6 inch skulls tend to have short attention spans which makes them easily startled or distracted.

So far there have been no reported human deaths caused by these tiny miniscule little critters, but caution is advised, especially if there's an encounter with several of them, as they have been known to gang up on larger animals if they perceive them as a threat. Xamoyoadapis is otherwise at the bottom of the food chain, being even smaller in size comparison to most Xamoyoan squirrels. But their strength in numbers seems to be one of their greatest methods of survival, and their sapience gives them the ability to out-think other animals in the jungle, enabling them to turn predators into prey.