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Fatiar Hummingbird

The Fatiar Hummingbird is a species of sapient found on the nature planet Florando.

Basic Information

Anatomy

The Fatiar Hummingbird resembles a small hummingbird, with two small wings, with a long sharp black beak shaped like an arrow, they have bright green moss that grows from their back, though their back is actually pink, causing their back to appear as a switching layer of green and pink, their bellies are grey, their tail has three layers of feathers, moss coated pink feathers, clean pink feathers, and clean grey feathers. And also have a band of black feathers taking up a bit less then a third of their head, going all around it and tapering towards the back of it's head. It's claws are rather curved, meant for keeping a good grip when landing on plants.

Biological Traits

Thickeness of feather vs moss layers.

Genetics and Reproduction

Fatiar Hummingbirds mate sexually, often just before the end of the dry season, around by 2 weeks so, so that they can lay their eggs by the wet season. The eggs usually hatch around 2 months into the wet season.

Growth Rate & Stages

They hatch without their feathers and slowly grow them in by the time until they are fully in by age 5, with the mosses on their backs (placed their by their parents) grow with it until both are fully grown in by age 8. They are considered adults at 18.

Ecology and Habitats

Fatiar Hummingbirds usually lived within the depths of Florando's Rainforests, preferably any spot with large (non carnivous) flowers, enough for them to land in safely.

Dietary Needs and Habits

Fatiar Hummingbirds are known for drinking nectar from various flowers, though, when those aren't avalible, they are also up for sucking the juice out of any non toxic fleshy fruits some of which sometimes are fermented from beams of sun and get the Fatiar Hummingbirds drunk, to the point they seek out such fruits on purpose. When it comes to nectar drinking, they will often drink just enough to still fly. They often switch between flowers as to not drain one flower of nectar completely. When food becomes scarce, Fatiar Hummingbirds can relay on the moss on their bodies to photosynthesize, allowing them to live off the energy from the sun, often spending time chasing around small beams of sunlight through the gaps between the trees by day, doing so also helps keep the moss healthy, though their small size makes it easy for them to stay in the light, at least until they can find a more proper food source.

Biological Cycle

Fatiar Hummingbirds usually spent their days of the wet season going out to flowers to sip nectar from them, often using the energy from them to spend their days zooming around the rainforests of Florando, often looking for more flowers. During the dry season, they often find and stay around a small patch of flowers, preferbly one near a river, until the wet season returns.

Behaviour

Fatiar Hummingbirds once used to fly as fast as possible from flower to flower often through tangling vines and mazes of trees, often to avoid the many predators around to get them. If caught, they would beat their wings against their bodies rapidly to spread the moss from their bodies out and onto the attacker, enough to completely cover their body in moss as to allow the Fatiar Hummingbird in question to escape easily. Though typically not very social, males once fought one another with their arrow like beaks to win over females during the middle of the dry season to get a mate.

Additional Information

Social Structure

Fatiar Hummingbirds are usally loners, as they disliked the idea of having to compete for things like already scarce sunlight or any non-toxic flowers or fruits, if they encounted another version of their kind that was not their partner or children, they would often go after them, scaring them off by stabbing at them with one another's beaks (the same way once fought for mates during the middle of the dry season), though now in modern day, they won't usually kill any visitors or neighbors, though they do still prefer being by themselves.

Facial characteristics

Fatiar Hummingbird have heads shaped like sideways teardrops, as they have a slick on the back of their heads, green with moss entirely on it's top, and entirely moss free on it's bottom. They also have arrow shaped beaks with a tip made for jabbing into flowers to suck nectar from it.

Geographic Origin and Distribution

Fatiar Hummingbirds tended to live in rainforests, specifically around those that have any chance to at least simi regularly let in beams of sunlight from between the leaves of the trees in case they ever run out of other foods.

Average Intelligence

Around 100 on the human IQ scale.

Perception and Sensory Capabilities

The Fatiar Hummingbird have quite keen eyesight, made for flying through dense rainforests at high speeds as to not fly head first into a tree.

Symbiotic and Parasitic organisms

The Moss that grows on their backs help them in various ways, first, when starving, the moss can photosynthesize from sunlight to supply the hummingbird with enough nutriants to continue living for up to a full 24 hours if given 25 minutes of sunlight shone right on the moss. Second, when threatned, the Fatiar Hummingbirds will hit their wings against their own bodies to let some of the moss free to fall onto the attacker and rapidly grow on their body, slowly coating them to either slow them down assuming they can remove the moss, or in some cases, grow into their skin and cause greater damage or even completely paralyze them.

Civilization and Culture

Beauty Ideals

Fatiar Hummingbirds idolize sharp pointed beaks and bright under feathers, especially in males.

Gender Ideals

As prevously mentioned, males are idolize as having sharp beaks and bright colored under feathers, while females are idolized as having plenty of moss on their bodies, (which often dulls the rest of her colors) and smoother beaks.

Average Technological Level

Like all sapient animals, they use modern phones and the technology needed to work said modern phones.

Major Language Groups and Dialects

English.

Interspecies Relations and Assumptions

The Fatiar Hummingbirds, due to being mostly loners, are often seen by outside elementals as somewhat mysterous or even potentally dangerous, though in modern day, they are usually more accepted.
Scientific Name
Parva Pila
Lifespan
120 years
Average Height
1'3
Average Weight
6 ounces
Average Physique
Thin and Sleek.
Body Tint, Colouring and Marking
Vibrent green (moss), bright pink (top feathers), plain gray (bottom feathers), black (stripe around their eyes and back of head)
Geographic Distribution
Related Ethnicities

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