Group Limits

• Bonapartenykus may only group with their mate.
  • However, Bonapartenykus will tolerate other Bonapartenykus within proximity of them, and share their food with them, so long as they do not have offspring.

Nest Limits

• Blooming Season and Scorching Season: 4 eggs, 3-hour Interval
  • Bonapartenykus are quick egg layers, but tend to neglect or abandon their offspring if they are new and inexperienced parents.
• Wilting Season: 1 eggs, 3-hour Interval
  • Bonapartenykus become less keen on laying eggs with the loss of many plants and shrubbery to duck under, even many bugs start to hide away.
• Frosting Season: 0 eggs
  • Although Bonapartenykus may become broody, any hatched eggs will quickly die due to the cold, even when huddled up with their parents.

Sexual Dimorphism

• Subspecies Dimorphism is Mandatory. Colour Dimorphism is Optional.
• Male Bonapartenykus are generally brighter in color, and have more feathers than female Bonapartenykus.
  • Suitable subspecies for male: Variation 2, Variation 3, Variation 4,
  • Suitable subspecies for female: Variation 1, Variation 5

Habitat

• Nomadic
  • Bonapartenykus may appear anywhere, however, they have strong opinions about certain territories that are not well suited for them, and will leave those areas at their earliest convenience.
  • More intelligent Bonapartenykus may learn from bad experiences in certain POIs, and never return to that specific POI.
• Preferred: Dense Woodland, Sparse Woodland, Lakes
• Neutral: Desert, Mesa, Hills, Valleys, Mountainous
• Disliked: Beach, Marshlands, Islands, Cliff Coast, Skerry, Archipelago

Activity

• Diurnal

Diet

• General Herbivore: Passive, Ant Eater, Scavenger
  • Bonapartenykus prefer to eat bugs over all else, but they will also eat plants and berries, or even decaying corpses if they come across it.

Growing Behaviours

Hatchling

• Bonapartenykus hatch cold and blind. Unable to hold their own temperature, they snuggle close to their parents. Hatchlings are extremely loud, and this noise may cause new parents to abandon their chick. See orphan behavior for more information.
  • Hatchling Bonapartenykus may be stolen by strange Bonapartenykus, but only if their parents abandon the chick.

Juvenile

• Once Bonapartenykus are juvenile, they are able to manage their temperature better, and, though still somewhat noisy, will soon quiet down due to the silence of their parents. Juvenile Bonapartenykus will mimic the behavior of their parents, and follow them around relentlessly. Typically, Bonapartenykus will have a favorite parent to follow, which is decided through how well their parent caters to their needs. Juvenile Bonapartenykus are in constant need of attention, and will often interrupt their parents in whatever activities they are currently doing to play, and may even become jealous of their siblings if their parents give one sibling more attention over the other.
  • If Juvenile Bonapartenykus are attacked by a strange Bonapartenykus, that Bonapartenykus is attempting to steal them. If Juvenile Bonapartenykus reach half health, they must drop down and surrender, successfully stolen by the other Bonapartenykus couple.
• Stolen Bonapartenykus Juveniles will be herded away from their actual parents, but will never seek attention from their imposter parents. Stolen Bonapartenykus may grow up to be extremely anxious, and may have a lower stress tolerance.

Adolescent

• At adolescence, Bonapartenykus parents will start ignoring their chicks far more, and may even peck at them to make them back off if an adolescent becomes too needy. This may make the adolescent Bonapartenykus feel stressed, and they may drop down as a stress response if upset enough. Parents, however, completely ignore this tantrum in order to force the chick to gain independence. Eventually the adolescent Bonapartenykus will adapt to these new changes, but keep following their parents, now learning to eat on their own rather than from their parents.
  • If a strange Bonapartenykus couple mistakes adolescent Bonapartenykus for a younger age group, they will peck back at them to defend themself.

Sub/Adult

• Sub-Adult Bonapartenykus become completely disinterested in their parents or their siblings, and will leave the area as soon as they hit this stage in age. These Bonapartenykus will wander around, looking for a mate to keep them company, sticking to similar biomes they grew up in.

Orphan Behaviours

• Orphan Bonapartenykus will imprint on the first thing they see when they open their eyes. Orphaned Bonapartenykus will mimic the behavior of whatever they follow, and will carry these behaviors through adulthood. Although not inherently aggressive, if imprinted on a carnivore or an aggressive herbivore, Bonapartenykus will become aggressive towards other species, and may even lose their drop response. Bonapartenykus who are aggressive do not live long.
  • Bonapartenykus who become orphans when abandoned by their parents will not re-imprint if they have already opened their eyes and imprinted.
• Bonapartenykus who were abandoned by parents who they’ve already imprinted on will continuously search for and cry out for their parents. This behavior persists until they are a sub-adult, even if they never find any signs of their parents. This will lead Bonapartenykus to become highly attached to and dependent on any future mates, and will never leave their side, not even for water.

Social Behaviours

• Bonapartenykus are neutral towards other Bonapartenykus and will tolerate other Bonapartenykus being around, but will never group with or protect them unless courted. Bonapartenykus prefer other Bonapartenykus to keep three body-lengths away, but overall don’t mind their company.
• Bonapartenykus will be defensive with offspring with anything that is not other Bonapartenykus. They will attempt to distract the danger so that their offspring will get away, but may end up dropping down in the process. Because of this, Bonapartenykus is also analytical; if they decide it is not worth trying to distract the danger, they will simply let their child die.
• If Bonapartenykus have offspring, they will not tolerate other Bonapartenykus being around until the offspring have reached adolescent. If a strange Bonapartenykus attempts to steal their offspring, they will defend their offspring up to adolescence.
• Bonapartenykus couples, especially same-sex couples, will often attempt to steal the chicks of couples who have already had chicks, and will not stop until they have been chased away three times. During the thieving process, if parents manage to get the thief to half health, the thief must back away. The thief may not attempt to steal more than three times.
  • If the chick is brought to half health or below when hit by the thieving Bonapartenykus, the theft is a success.
  • If the chick is hatchling, they may only be successfully stolen if the real parents surrender them.
  • Adolescents may not be stolen. If a chick fights back, they are an adolescent.

Interspecies Behaviours

• Bonapartenykus are not perceived as prey by most carnivores, and as a result they may not flee immediately when presented to one, instead, they will drop down and lie completely still in the crouching position. Usually, a Bonapartenykus will only flee once they reach half health, however, this is optional.
• Bonapartenykus may follow large herbivores, especially those of a large grouping to shield themselves within the group. Bonapartenykus who are following a herd will join their group and heal them with gentle licking after engagements, much like they would to their own mate or chicks. Bonapartenykus do not mind other Bonapartenykus hanging around the herd, but will become jealous if they lick the wounds of their favorite dinosaur within the herd. Jealous Bonapartenykus will attempt to keep the offending Bonapartenykus off of food sources however they can, this behavior usually does not last forever.

Territorial Behaviours

• Bonapartenykus are nomadic, and will migrate after one day/night cycle unless the area contains bugs. If there are bugs, Bonapartenykus may stay in the area so long as it is safe to do so, but will leave as soon as they run out of bugs.

Hunting/Hunted Behaviours

• When Bonapartenykus are being hunted, usually the first thing they will do is drop down into a crouch as a stress response, much like a fawn, staying completely still until attacked or the threat has passed.
• When being chased, Bonapartenykus will run in zigzag patterns in the thick shrubbery to throw off their pursuer, much like a rabbit would. The moment they notice the pursuer has lost them, they will drop down and hide in the bushes, only leaving once the threat has passed or if they are spotted.

Engagement Limits

• Bonapartenykus may not fight unless they are broody. When broody, both parents may fight.

Courtship

• When a Bonapartenykus finds a potential mate, they will call out to the potential mate, hop around and dance, and excitedly show their potential mate where there are bugs. Once at bugs, the courting Bonapartenykus will inspect and preen the potential mate.
  • Courting is not possible without bugs.
  • If the potential mate accepts, they will copy the courter’s behavior.
  • If the potential mate does not want to court, they may still follow where food will be, but they will not return any affectionate behaviors and will attempt to maintain three body-lengths distance.
• When rejected, the courting Bonapartenykus will eventually get bored and stop being affectionate once it hits night time.

Notes

• Bonapartenykus’s stress response is to drop down into a crouch and stay completely still, they will do this even with emotional distress or being startled.

Terms

• Young are known as chicks.

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