Pigagator By Imperator-Zor Watch

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Once upon a time the forces of geology and coral growths contrived to make an island in the middle of the ocean hundreds of kilometers from the mainlan. First it was barren rock and coral, but soon it was found by seabirds while seeds on the wind and coconuts reached the shore, allowing plants to establish themselves. Some seals started to set up colonies, then a few birds and bugs were blown in on the wind and similar. As time went on some of these animals began to speciate and fill niches as the island. Among the critters that got to this island (as late arrivals) were a pair of baby alligators on a tree-branch after a storm. They found their way into a nice bog, got fat on eels and birds and in time made more alligators. The gators eventually proliferated on this island and became the island's dominant predators. They ate to death much of the local ecology, but even so there were plenty of animals which lived where gators did not frequent. Regardless this did set off a cycle of boons and busts where the gator population would swell beyond carrying capacity, collapse due to a combination of starvation and cannibalism leaving a small number of gators alive to start the cycle over again. In this environment, being able to make do with less counted for more than being big, but also needing more food. The pressure that this put on the gators forced them to be more opportunistic. They left the swamps and patrolled the shores for carrion and forests for prey as well as eating more and more fruit and coconuts.



Eventually a new species of alligator arose: The Pigagator. About 1.5 meters long on average, long legged, thick gutted and short snouted. They eat meat, but they mostly patrol the brush in search of anything they can find, from mushrooms to coconuts to roots. They dig through the littler in search of tidbits and retain an acute sense of smell. They've become prolific, but their numbers are kept in check by a more conventional breed of dwarf alligator which often preys upon their land dwelling cousins.

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