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Roqnee info time

Roqnees are an oviparous sophont that live in the desert and savannah regions of Akari. They live in packs, which are often referred to as cavalcades. The oldest Roqnee of the cavalcade leads the group, and when the leader dies, the next oldest Roqnee takes their place. Roqnees do not settle to live on one spot, instead they travel around the land to escape predators and find food. They set up little camps using tents whenever they need to settle somewhere. Most popular camping grounds are by oases because they have both water and food.

While they are omnivorous from a scientific perspective, Roqnees prefer a more plant-based diet because it's simply more convenient; Roqnees are slow and clumsy runners and the heat of Yeiter's two suns makes it an exhausting task to run.

Roqnees could've been great aquatic or semi-aquatic creatures, but the food at Akari's coastline lured them out of the water early on in their evolution. The spine of a Roqnee is flexible yet sturdy and their lung capacity is very good, meaning they can hold their breath for long periods of time. However, the feet/hands of a Roqnee aren't exactly the greatest for swimming. They cannot create a "scoop" with their fingers like humans sometimes do when they swim, and they don't have webbed feet. Their fingers do not create enough surface area for their swimming to be super quick, and their lung capacity is affected by this; They waste more energy on trying to push themselves forward and therefore can't fold their breath for as long as they potentially could. Their tail's lack of a fin also affects their swimming, but not as dramatically as the structure and size of their feet/hands.

Roqnees have a human-like skin, but it has developed to protect itself from the sun. Roqnees can produce a sort of oil that protects their skin from getting sunburns. The oil contains oxybenzone, along some other chemicals that reflect away UV-light.

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A bit about Arik fur colours and genetics

By default, Ariks have 6 "base" patterns + melanistic and albino variants. They're all seen above. Shades of the fur colours may vary slightly, but only in terms of being brighter, darker, high-contrast or dull. But all of the base patterns will still remain somewhat the same colour. For example, all Colourpoints will be a shade of gray and all Midnight Blues will have varying shades of dark blues.

The only exception is the Tiger Striped Akita pattern, which has also appeared as gray and almost blue before being mixed with other patterns via breeding. These natural gray and blue variants are incredibly rare, but they could explain why Midnight Blue exists.

Midnight blue is quite the interesting pattern. Some Ariks call it "The Mutt" despite it being a base pattern. (A mutt pattern would be anything that has a mixed pool of genes from two patterns, for example Deer and Colourpoint.) Midnight Blue is called a mutt pattern because it looks "ugly" and irregular. All base patterns have a strict rule about how many types of dots and coloured spots will go where. However, Midnight Blue randomises those. It is only considered a base pattern due to it's unusual shade of blue.

Mutt or base, an Arik fur pattern is always divided into different "sections" based on what colour goes where on the body. This is important when looking at how their fur genetics pass on to offspring.

Primary Colour — The base colour of the fur. This colour would cover the Arik entirely if you were to remove all patterns from it. The most dominant colour gene.

Secondary Colour — Most commonly a pattern, such as stripes, dots or splotches.

Tertiary Colour — Most commonly the colour of the stomach and/or cheeks.

Quartary Colour — Very rarely appears, most commonly the colour of the Arik's antennae, as seen on the Banana Split pattern. The most fragile colour gene, can easily "get lost" and won't inherit to the offspring or can be formed when the parents' colours mix.

Ariks usually get one single Arikit at a time. When two Ariks breed, their offspring will gain its fur colour and patterns depending on what the parents look like.

Most commonly the fur colour either switches patterns (As seen above, a Colourpoint pattern with Banana Split colours) or the parents' colours and patterns mix together, creating new mutt patterns. Colours may also mix together to create new shades.

Very rarely the Arikit turns out to be a perfect replica of one of their parents. However, this requires said parent to have a pure base pattern and to be the same sex as the Arikit.

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This is @vapolemon's spec bio blog!!

Welcome to Yeiter!

Yeiter, a small planet somewhere far away.. It's about half the size of Earth, and orbits its two suns twice as fast. Seems to have life on it, too.

Yeiter has two main continents; Akari and Bantar, both of which are homes to many kinds of creatures, including sophonts.

Yet, these sophonts are thousands of years away from being able to travel to the stars. Being only primitive cavemen (or cavealiens!), they have a lot to invent and discover.

To navigate and arrange my posts both for me and you, I will be using tags to make it easier! Here are a few you'll see quite often.

#Yeiter — General tag for this blog

#Akari's Wildlife — Tag focused on Akari

#Bantar's Wildlife — Tag focused on Bantar

#Species Info — Basically just spec bio

#Species Evolution — About evolution

Also, most important species (such as the sophonts) or often reoccurring species will have their own tag.

A bit about @vapolemon themselves;

Hiya!! It's me!! Vapo!! I go by he/she/they, but prefer he/they. My main blog is for my overall art, mainly consisting of OC art and reblogs.

This blog is dedicated to my speculative biology "project" revolving around a planet named Yeiter. I won't post as regularly or frequently here, but I wanted a way to tidily archive my work and to share it to others. :)

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