Group Limits

• 5 per group of the unrelated same sex.
  • Unlimited Offspring.

Nest Limits

• Blooming Season: 2 eggs, 3-hour interval
• Scorching Season: 1 egg, 3-hour interval
• Wilting Season: 5 eggs, 3-hour interval
• Frosting Season: 3 eggs, 3-hour interval

Sexual Dimorphism

• Subspecies dimorphism is optional.
• Males
  • usually have quills.
  • Suitable subspecies: spinatergus
• Females
  • usually don’t have quills.
  • Suitable subspecies: corcovatus, carcharus
• Mutations
  • Concavenator accepts both melanistic and albino individuals, though it might cause confusion during hunts. See below.

Variants

• Concavenators are starting to diverge from one another into separate variants but have not fully separated. This allows for these variants to group together and even have half-breeds.
• Terrestrial
  • Terrestrial Concavenators have adapted well to more earthy environments and prefer to remain on land. They have specialised into bleeding targets and may work together with aquatic Concavenators to hunt prey. Terrestrial Concs are Earthy tones like Browns, Oranges, Yellows and Reds - Bleeding build
  • Allowed Abilities: Slippery Scales, Bite, All for one, slash, Rend, Bloodthirsty, Frenzy, Claw attack, Quilled hide, Bright sail, Ripping kick
• Semi-Aquatic
  • Semi-Aquatic Concavenators are a mix of both terrestrial and aquatic variants. They can be seen on both the land and waters of Gondwa and like all preferred biomes. Semi-Aquatic Concavenators will often take on any role required during hunting and may even chase prey from the water onto land to aid terrestrial Concavenators in hunting. Semi-Aquatic Concs are Earthy and Cool tones being a mixture of both variants - Semi aquatic build with bleed
  • Allowed Abilities: All Abilities
  • Must have diving ability equipped if hunting in the water.
• Aquatic
  • Aquatic Concavenators have adapted to the waters and prefer to remain submerged in the lakes and rivers of Gondwa. They have specialised into an aquatic build, ambushing from the water and may work together with terrestrial Concavenators to hunt prey. Aquatic Concs are Cool tones likes Blues, Greens and Purples - fully aquatic build
  • Allowed Abilities: Slippery Scales, Bite, All for one, Slash, Riptide, Nictitating membrane, Streamlined, Surge, Fishy Breath, Muffled roar.
• Mutations
  • Melanistic Concavenators are seen as terrestrial and many Concavenators may try to force aquatic or semi-aquatic melanistics onto land believing them to be unable to dive.
  • Albino Concavenators are seen as aquatic and many concavenators may try to force terrestrial albinos into water thinking they would hunt better there, not knowing they are unable to dive.

Habitat

• Sedentary / Nomadic
• General Preferred: Dense Woodland, Sparse Woodland
  • Aquatic preferred: Marshland, Lakes (in preferred terrestrial and general biomes), Ponds (in preferred terrestrial and general biomes), River and streams (in preferred terrestrial and general biomes)
  • Terrestrial preferred: Hills, Mountainous
  • Semi Aquatics like all preferred biomes

Activity

• Cathemeral
  • Concavenator are mostly cathemeral. They take time to rest during both day and night, although they prefer to court during the day to show off their courting dance and nest in a good light, while stalking and hunting is done at night, where the darkness shelters them from their prey's view.

Diet

• General Carnivore: Neutral
  • Meat, Fish and shellfish.

Growing Behaviours

Hatchling

• The first thing Concavenator hatchlings see when coming into the world is their father. Concavenator babies are very quick on their feet and start to explore their nest intricately. This early phase will shape the young males - they will subconsciously remember their fathers way of decorating the nest, and will replicate it for their own nest similarly later in life. Contrary to this, the females will remember the decoration style equally, but it will forge them into preferring differently decorated nests later on instead.

Juvenile

• Reaching juvenile, the offspring starts to leave the nest to discover the surrounding area, sometimes straying quite far if unattended. This stage can be quite straining on the father, since he has to keep an eye on all of them, keep them together and fed. When the father deems the kids old enough, he will guide them to water. The juveniles will already start to show if they prefer playing in water or staying dry on land - an early forecast on their variant.

Adolescent

• Growing older, siblings often engage in test-fights and gain confidence in their abilities by hunting their first fish or critter. Siblings usually stick close together, playing, fighting and watching the adults of the pack hunt from afar. This way they learn the traditional hunting tactic.

Sub/Adult

• Concavenator are very attached to their father and take their time growing into adults. Unlike other species at sub-adult, they don’t have to take full responsibility quite yet - their father and sometimes even the rest of the pack continues to provide for them, as they improve their hunting skills. If confident enough, some of the offspring start to join hunts actively now, while others take their dear time to continue practicing how to fight and to learn more from watching hunts from a distance. Once Concavenator turn sub-adult, they diverge more into their variants. The (semi-)aquatics learn to dive and use bodies of water to their advantage, while terrestrial offspring become bigger in size and grow sharper claws and a stronger bite. During this time, the siblings get to know each other's abilities. Brimming with their newly acquired skills, they are full of mischief. Aquatics may try to get their terrestrial siblings to dive with them or surprise-attack them by darting out of water or from below. Swimming races instigated by the aquatic sub-adults occur a lot during this time - regardless of the competitors' variant. The terrestrial Concavenator spar frequently during this stage, and sometimes even accidentally injure their siblings outside of spars as they adjust to their quickly growing strength. > Semi-aquatics try to figure out their place by joining both terrestrial and aquatic activities, discovering that they work together well alongside both variants. Once Concavenator are fully grown adults, the females usually diverge from their pack, while males decide to stay.

Orphan Behaviours

• Orphans are drawn towards water the moment they stand on their shaky legs. They usually avoid any kind of other species, but may try to get closer to other Concavenator. If they are lucky, they stumble upon a male with a nest. In this case, the male might choose to adopt the orphan.
• If the orphan does not meet any other Concavenator to socialize with, they might struggle to understand pack hunting tactics and positions. This causes them to take wrong positions when they have finally found a pack, and have to endure the sometimes painful corrections by their packmates. Over time, the orphan learns where his position in the hunting group is.
• Otherwise, orphans don’t show any sideeffects as adults.

Social Behaviours

• Concavenator can be classified into three categories - terrestrial, semi-aquatic and aquatic.
  • Their main difference is their ability set. While terrestrials have specialized on a life on land and bleeding their target, aquatics have taught themselves how to dive and pursue prey on water. Semi-aquatics have found themselves to have a mix of qualities from both sides.
  • The variants are distinguished by their skin shades, but may also have slightly differing behaviour depending on their variant. Aquatic and semi-aquatic Concas prefer to stay close to water and build their nests in close proximity to it, terrestrial Concas may be found further inland.
  • Concavenator use their differences within the pack to their advantage and usually even prefer to have a colourful mix of all variants around them, as the various skillsets give the pack power both on land and in water.
• Concavenator live in packs up to 5 individuals. Males are sedentary and prefer to stick close to their nest, which they are very territorial over. Females however are nomadic until they find males to join and nest with.
  • All Concavenators are social drifters, meaning that they don’t form tight bonds with their pack and instead often diverge after a while to find a new pack. This behaviour is especially observed in females.
• Packs with (semi-)aquatic members tend to stay close to bodies of water, while purely terrestrial packs may decide to trail further inland. Mixed packs are often seen sitting together in shallow water or right next to it at the water's edge, basking in the sun.
• The Concavenator variants are very empathetic to other variants - they help each other out with their specialised skills.
  • This can show in the form of acquiring food on land for aquatic Concas or food in water for terrestrial Concas, (semi-)aquatics checking their surroundings while terrestrials cross bodies of water and in many more situations.
• Packs are led by an elected adult. This individual can be of either variant and gender. During storms or fog though, the pack prefers to have an aquatic or semi-aquatic leader who has better vision in these harsher weather conditions.

Interspecies Behaviours

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Territorial Behaviours

• Males are territorial of their nests as they fear that rival males will destroy it.

Hunting Behaviours

• Concavenator maintain a cleverly worked out hunting strategy. Knowing their different skillsets, the pack allocates different tasks to the different variants within the group.
• Their tactic consists of surrounding the prey when it’s drinking and scaring it from either terrestrial Concas or aquatic and semi-aquatic Concas into the fangs of the other half of the pack.
• When the pack becomes hungry, the aquatics and semi-aquatics go into hiding underwater near lake shores or river banks. The terrestrial counterparts of the pack take their place on land, hiding in shrubbery a bit off from the waters edge, where they are not seen by potential prey, but are close enough to reach the water quickly.
  • The pack is very strict about their position allocation - if a terrestrial Conca tries to take position in the water or an aquatic or semi-aquatic Conca tries to hide in shrubbery on land, they are quickly corrected by the rest of the pack.
  • Melanistic Concavenator are viewed as terrestrial, while albinos are seen as aquatic.
  • In cases where melanistic Concavenator (semi-)aquatic (have the diving skillset) or albino Concavenator are terrestrial (have the bleed skillset), it leads to confusion among the pack and might cause chaos during a hunt.
  • The other Concavenator will try to push the mutated Conca to the position its skin shade indicates.The mutated Conca either gives in and stays in that position and, confused about their task and unsecure with the unfamiliar hunting position, might struggle to contribute properly to the hunt. Or the mutated Conca may switch back to its preferred hunting position during the hunt, causing the rest to become sidetracked and maybe even attack the mutated Concavenator out of confusion and frustration.
  • If the mutated Concavenator causes the hunts to fail too often, the rest of the pack might decide to not let it join in on hunts in the future.
• The pack, being very patient, waits for potential prey to come by. Usually they wait for the prey to start drinking or when they are unattentive of their surroundings.
• Once the prey is in a good spot between the terrestrial and aquatic hunting parties, either the aquatics initiate the attack if the target is drinking or close enough to the water, or the terrestrial party initiates if the target is more inland. Usually though the pack tries to wait for the prey to drink or even try to take a swim or cross the water.
• Whatever party initiated the hunt will try to drive the prey towards the other half of the party.
  • When the aquatics will be the first to attack swimming or drinking targets, the semi-aquatics get ready to take over the hunt during the transition from water-to-land fight, where the terrestrial Concaventors will await the prey.
  • If the terrestrial party initiates the fight, they will try to scare the prey towards the water if possible. There, they will be awaited by the semi-aquatics and aquatics. The latter will first try to lay low - in case the prey decides to cross the water - and attack when the prey is positioned the best for the aquatics to use their full potential.
• When there is no viable prey around, the packs’ aquatic and semi-aquatic members usually provide fish to eat for the entire pack.
• When Concavenators are hunted, they group together and either try to take down the aggressor, or retreat into waters together.

Engagement Limits

• 5 engagement limit.

Courtship

• Male Concavenator are known to be sedentary and will remain in one PoI which they believe is best. Male Concavenator will build elaborate nests in their chosen PoI making sure they have a pretty stage for when a nomadic female arrives. When a female arrives in their PoI, they will try to get their attention by broadcasting, hoping to be noticed. Once noticed by a female, the male concavenator will begin to show off, shaking its tail (Heart calling) at the female and eventually bowing (Claw emote). If the female accepts his display, she will bow as well and lay her eggs in his nest. If she disapproves, she will walk off and find another male to watch. Both males and females are polygamous and will try to court as many individuals as they see fit. Females have no nesting timer and are allowed to court and nest as much as they like. The males have a nesting timer. They can court multiple females roaming together, but this will result in the nesting post having multiple mothers.
• Some males will often go to ruin competitors' nests, but if caught in the act by the owner of the nest, then they will flee. This is done so that the females will all come to watch him instead. This results in many males fiercely defending their nests from rival males (Ungrouped males). Males that are grouped together will not destroy each other's nest, as they prioritise having a good bond for hunting.
• (Semi-)aquatics males usually build their nests close to the water, while terrestrial males build their nests a bit further inland.
  • Females generally don’t show much interest in their offspring. During the Wilting and Frosting season, they may even leave the offspring to find a new partner to produce another patch of babies with.
  • Males on the other hand take care of their offspring very dearly. (Semi-)aquatics even tend to proudly show off their young to any other dinosaur, and retreat back into the water when said dinosaur turns out to be a threat.

Notes

• While you can choose to be any of the three variants, independent from your parents variants, you’re still encouraged to inherit one of your parents variant.

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