Hubber (HUB-burr)

Similar to a shoebill stork, except that what looks like head and neck are a combination of a claw attached to an extension of the vertebral column, with the sensory stalks moved onto it. The actual mouth is still on the underside of the body.   Mostly flightless, in the sense that chickens are mostly flightless. The front wings are mostly functional, while the hind wings are little more than vestigial. Both sets of wings have chemoreceptors, and part of their hunting behavior is to stand with all wings oustretched, smelling the air.   The middle legs are large and well-developed, and provide their primary means of locomotion. They also have large raptor-style claws.   They lay softball-sized eggs, and will use anything resembling a nest, rather than build their own. As long as food is plentiful, they are not territorial, and do not try to protect their eggs, which makes them popular as livestock, despite the care needed to avoid injury.   The eggs do not have clearly separated membrane-bound yolk and albumin, as vertebrate eggs do, but rather merely two distinct fluids that will blend if the eggs are handled too roughly. The thicker fluid is blue, and the thinner is yellow.