This creature is 5 meters long, weighs a tonne and wanders around forests, swamps and scrubplanes plodding along on four short legs scarfing up any bit of greenery it can get into its mouth which it strips apart with peg like teeth as it goes. This plant matter is swallowed with gastroliths to ferment in it's stomach before valuable nutrients are collected and expelled out of it's rear end, fertilizing the surrounding fields as it goes. While they are fairly good swimmers, as adults they are most at home on land with a thick warty skin to hold in moisture. Never the less, they always return to the water to mate, which they do every month or so.







These creatures undergo a considerable metamorphosis over their lifetimes. Adults lay huge cluches of tens of thousands of eggs, which soon hatch into small tadpoles which swarm through the water. Within a few months they begin their metamorphosis into the juvenile stage, growing legs and lungs as their tails diminish while they grow into rabbit sized juveniles that are pretty much smaller and somewhat more agile versions of the adults. All members of this species are born male and for the first two years of their land based lives hang around swamps fertilizing eggs dropped off by passing females. However once they reach a certain size (usually about 2 meters long and 100 kilos) they undergo a secondary metamorphosis from male to female. They can be quite long lived, with some individuals reaching over a hundred years old, though even among those that make it to the Juvenile stage, few manage to survive to become females.







They are the most efficient herbivores in their habitats and as such are quite prolific, but they are also heavily predated upon by a wide variety of fish and amphibians. Large females can fend off all but the largest predators, but males are highly vulnerable to predation. They are also often casually squished by passing females.

