Licking Hunter

Before the hole


Before the hole the Licking Hunters were predators, hunting mostly alone and isolating small animals, even if sometimes the lack of preys made them turn onto bigger targets. Their long legs allow them to jump like frogs or to get higher when they search for food, they also make it easier for the Licking Hunter’s to climb trees. Their primary hunting method is to let their tongue fall from a high place where they are hidden, at the tip of their tongue is a luminescent ball that releases pheromones to attract other animals, particularly during the mating season because the pheromones have more chance to push them into this deadly trap. For other animals less likely to react to these chemicals the light can be a trap too when it’s dark. When the poor creature reaches the ball it’s too late, it is covered in an adhesive liquid and le tongue retracts quickly to let the Licking Hunter enjoy their meals. When faced with starvation and hen no other animals are around, it is not unusual to see multiple Licking Hunter’s attack bigger creatures, setting traps and jumping on them several at a time. They also have little patches of hair around their stomach and legs, those hide small filters that make them able to breathe while eating large animals that would otherwise prevent them from inhaling, but also have captors for different pheromones and odors.

To reproduce, since there is no female or male, two individuals have to get together, often finding themselves via another set of pheromones from their tongues, and then both their tongue intertwine until both the balls fuse, leaving an egg that both parents will watch for until their balls grow back, at which point, even if the egg is not hatched, they will go back to their lives. Young Licking Hunter’s grow alone most of the time, eating pre consumed food their parents leaved near their eggs, when they ate all of it they will begin to emit a large quantity of pheromones from their tongues, that will attract nearby Licking Hunter’s and they will teach them how to hunt, no matter if they are not related. They are mostly nocturnal animals and can stay up without sleeping for most of their life if they don’t move a lot. Adults can reach up to 2’6 in height and can grow up to 6’5 long.

After the hole
Since the hole came to be, few Licking Hunter’s fell into it, but now private from their need to feed, they first remained hidden just as they lived before, and since they were no need to eat they stopped hunting. But with time they experimented with staying out of the leaves or other places they would hide in, and gathered in small packs of two or three individuals, they mostly play together, cuddling and licking each other. They also release pheromones from time to time to try and cuddle with other species, results varying with the animals that come. They are now mostly pacific, as they have little to no nerves they don’t feel pain except in certain area, they can be aggressive however when some individual touches their tongues. But even with all the changes, some individuals stay savage and strongly relate to their predatory instincts still, hunting and playing with lives for fun.