Rare Animals Vol.2
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Title: Rare Animals Vol. 2
Author: Jaine
I would like to dedicate this book to the Royal Guard of Britannia, for their assistance in finding my animals the first time they escaped from their confines.
This time, the escape of my animals is due to the incompetance of the imbeciles they decided to put in charge of the Moonglow Zoo! Now it is under new management, the idiots decided that the current residents of the Zoo could just be released without harming either Oceanian citizens or the natural ecosystems!
The nerve of some people! I have had new enclosures commissioned, in a remote location where no one will bother my precious pets.
I have acquired two new species of rare Oceanian fauna, while I was searching for my lost crocodiles and cockatoos.
They are simply delightful, and I will have to make sure there are enclosures for them in the new Zoo too. Their needs should be simple to provide for I think.. so long as the new pythons don't fancy cockatoo for lunch!
The Oceanian Carpet Snake is quite a benign snake and easily tamed if hand reared from very young. Be careful handling a freshly hatched baby though!
They are extremely aggressive until they are used to handling. At birth they weigh in at approximately ten grams, and reach an adult size of about 3 metres! They are such a lovely snake... with markings resembling the patterns on a carpet, hence their common name.
The breeding season is in August or September, which is the only time these may be found together in pairs in the wild. They bury soft shelled eggs like all reptiles do, leaving them to hatch around January.
Pythons are wonderfully adapted for hunting prey. They first sense their prey by scent, picking up the scent by tasting the air with their forked tongues. They can see heat patterns, which they use to track down their prey among the branches of trees (they are mostly arboreal, having a flattened body shape for sitting on branches). They creep forward slowly, testing the air until they are close enough to strike...
The python coils his long body into a series of S shaped curves and literally throws himself at the prey, sinking long sharp teeth into it and throwing coils of his body around it. Venom is not used in this exercise, instead the weight of their body and extremely powerful muscles are used to crush the prey animal, which may be rodents or birds.
The python then walks their jaw over the animal, until the whole prey is swallowed whole. The digestive juices in the stomach them dissolve the animal slowly over time.
The Dingo is a native canine species, found only in the Oceanian region. They are said to have come to the region with the natives that originally inhabited this continent before the current society was formed.
They are a sandy colour adapted for life in desert regions.
Unlike more common canines, Dingoes do not bark, instead making a range of whining sounds, yodelling, purring (like a cat!) or a coughing noise. They are also known to howl in extreme circumstances.
They have a different head and face shape than common dogs, and only breed on an annual cycle. Puppies are born around between April and August.
They form lifetime bonds with their families, whether this be other dingoes or humans.
They are highly intelligent and extremely agile, with a well developed sense of smell, sight and hearing.
They are strongly territorial, and like to view their territory from a height. Like cats, they like to use their front paws like hands, in order to grasp objects to explore things just out of reach.
Their short coats are sandy coloured, optimized for desert environments. Sandy, the female of my pair has disappeared and I am extremely worried about her.