Dragon
Describe a species that can be found worldwide.
Basic Information
Biological Traits
Dragons are an engineered species. Viewed without this context, their evolutionary history could move evolutionary biologists to strong drink and pugilism.
Ecology and Habitats
As a designed species, dragons were initially designed to thrive in human habitats, though a darker secret of their construction was that they were intended to thrive and outcompete humans in a post-nuclear wasteland in order to ensure the survival of the culture, if not the species. This combination of design constraints has produced a creature that's comfortable in extreme heat or frigid cold, and strongly resistant to ionizing radiation and radioactive contamination. As a result, dragons can be found in every single type of habitat worldwide, from the arctic to wet-bulb killzones.
Dietary Needs and Habits
Dragons are not picky eaters. While initially optimized for the standard human diet, they're quite capable of surviving on a a wild omnivore's diet, combining scavenging, predation, browsing, and grazing. Because of this, they're well equipped to become the most successful invasive species in history.
Additional Information
Social Structure
Dragons thrive in social groups, and are a friendly, curious species with no natural predators. In addition, they're brutally effective predators when raised wild, so competition for scarce resources does not tend to drive aggression. A surplus of calories and ample free time leads to dragons developing a multitude of games and play behaviors.
Domestication
Dragons are easily tamed, but not truly domesticated. This project is ongoing, but in early days; due to careful selective breeding based on fox domestication experiments, efforts could bear fruit in as little as 50 years, depending on the aggressiveness of IVF use to reduce generation time.
Uses, Products & Exploitation
In the most conventional sense, dragons are popular companion animals and working animals.
Facial characteristics
Dragons have a dental formula of 2-2-2-3.
Dragons have a boxy snout.
Dragons' faces are extremely expressive, on par with humans'.
Geographic Origin and Distribution
Worldwide
Average Intelligence
Smarter than you are, though possibly less schooled
Symbiotic and Parasitic organisms
Engineered gut flora provides resistance to most enteric diseaases
Conservation Status
Least Concern
Average Height
0.7 - 1.2 meters at the shoulder
Average Weight
50-70 kilograms
Average Length
2.7 - 3.5 meters
Average Physique
In better shape than you are, especially if they're regular fliers, they'll be all muscle.
Body Tint, Colouring and Marking
Varied and often bright colors you would find on a bird of paradise
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