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Waizok

Live in the southern oceans, but may drift to equatorial regions for spawning. Very large – some species can be a kilometer long. Mostly feed on plankton, small fish by sucking them in through their baleen. The ocean grazers. Baleen-style mouths. Tough, smooth skin that is thick with blubber and oil to protect against the colder depths of the ocean.
  • Population count as of end of Dragios Series: 86 thousand
  • Population count as of 1000 years in the future: 22.4 thousand
  • Some poaching and environmental changes has hurt their numbers

Basic Information

Anatomy

Approximating 600 to 1000 meters in size. Large dorsal fins, fore flippers, and ribbed flat tail fin.   Baleen filter coats their top and bottom of mouth, their tongue used to push water sucked in back out through the filters that catch smaller creatures, which are then covered in secretions from the gland right at the base of the baleen. This starts the digestion process. Once mouth is closed, the partially digested creatures is swallowed and end up in one of the four stomachs. The sucking power of the creature is enough to even catch larger animals, though when the tongue pushes the water out, the larger oceanic creatures have the strength to pull free before the baleen and its digestive juice coats them. Medium to small oceanic creatures don't always have the strength to pull free.   Two blow holes exist on either side of dorsal fin, but gill-like mesh covers the blow holes, and the creature can stay underwater for nearly half a day before needing to resurface to refill its lungs with air.

Additional Information

Social Structure

Families number from 3 to 9, and they all tend to feed together, roaming side by side or under each other. The larger ones herd the smaller ones, and during calving season, there can be up to 14 or 16 in a family. Once the calves mature into adults, they may splinter off to form their own family unit, though there has been evidence of Waizok all gathering in the hundreds in the deepest parts of the Ivera Gilav.
Lifespan
200-300 qaesa
Average Length
500 (teenage Waizok) to 1000 meters (adult Waizok)
Body Tint, Colouring and Marking
grey and indigo markings -- the indigo is streaks across the tops of their bodies and their undersides are pure black with the rest of their body a dark grey.
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