The Penguin-foxes were a once highly successful branch of balloon foxes. Today there’s only one surviving species, the Hardy Penguin-Fox native to Batworlds far south. Found on both Julikan continents and the Austral Islands, these small adaptable carnivores will eat anything from fish and bugs to young and flightless bats and dragons. Despite originating in Austral Juliko, all native ballon foxes went extinct when the continent drifted over the South Pole and froze over. Out of the four surviving clades, only the amphibious Penguin-foxes and volant dragons have since resettled the continent.
Incredibly k-selected, they give birth to only a single pup which they raise for up to two entire year. To make this even harder for the parents, young reach adult sizes at around 4 months, only a month after they’re fully weaned. They start catching small prey at about 9 months and can fully catch and kill their own prey at 15 months.
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Hidden in the densely vegetated eastern forest, the Glaring Spring Catcher can be found stalking small prey. Their senses are well developed, as evidenced by their large eyes and ears, though their sense of smell is notably less acute. They use these senses to locate prey, typically some sort of Ratbat, but this agile creature is known to catch anything it can get its grubby little hands on, even including flying bats and small dragons.
The Spring catchers preferred habitat is dense woodland, something they have found in abundance along Utasha’s eastern coast. The canopy here grows dense, and the understory is covered in bramble, giving the spring catcher practically unlimited hiding spots. Yet this only applies for the summer, as when winter arrives, the trees shed their leaves, and the forest weeds die back, leaving any would-be predator horribly exposed.
The spring catcher's solution is quite simple; hibernation.
It is one of only three hibernating handbats currently alive. The others being the grey bush catcher and Morgland craftsman. When summer ends and the day lengthens, the spring catcher starts preparing for the coming hibernation. This can prove futile when late autumn approaches and the mating season begins. Males can spend entire days fighting over females, burning through their fat reserves in the process.
The vast majority of males don't make it through the winters. When their energy storage runs out, they're forced to wake up and hunt for food. Many will die from predation or exposure, but most fall to starvation. This may seem like a grizzly fate, but it offers the youngsters a much better shot at life with drastically lower rates of competition when they leave their mothers to live on their own.
Found across East Utasha, the Foldear is a fairly large species of Handbat. It’s a woodland animal, preferring colder regions, and is very common throughout the northern taigas. Like all Handbats, the foldear is a carnivore. It’s capable of catching small prey in their long jaws, but hunting larger prey requires a more advanced method. Foldears are proficient climbers and will position themselves on a tree branch directly above their prey. They will then drop down directly on its back, bringing down any cat-raptor or breaking the spine of smaller jackalopes. The predator will then try to puncture arteries in the neck with their sharp thumb claws.
This hunting strategy is mostly deployed during the summer months, when medium-sized prey migrate into the Foldears habitat. During the winter, most prey are either small enough to be caught on foot or too large to be ambushed, and so attempts are only made out of desperation.
Foldears are primarily auditory animals. Their sense of smell is poor, and they're fairly near sighted. Their ears, in contrast, are huge and can pick up the heartbeat of even the smallest animal hidden under meters of snow. But, in the cold taiga, these ears radiate a huge amount of heat. A death sentence for anything as small as the Foldear.
To survive, these creatures will fold their ears in on themselves. This not only reduces the exposed area but also serves as a sort of blanket, trapping heat trying to escape. This has the added benefit of giving them an adorably puppy like appearance.
A (slightly outdated) map of Batworld, also called Arellvik in Warnic, showcasing the major continents. The current geological period, the Pruinian, is much colder than the previous hothouse fracturocene. The Pruinian period has lasted for 50 million years and has seen two separate ice ages, with a brief 2 million years long break. The planet today hosts a wide verity of wildlife including the sapient spuffens, who evolved in western Utasha roughly 3 million years ago and is survived by two extant species. The spuffens have since spread across the world and is found on nearly every piece of habitable land.
More info on the continents and global conditions below
Utasha: the northernmost and largest continent on the planet. This is the birthplace of the spuffens and many other species, though the local wildlife now faces the growing threat of the sophonts. Utasha is split into western and eastern halves, separated by the colossal Morgland Mountains. These halves used to be separate continents, and their collision and the subsequent formation of the mountains caused the first Pruinian ice age.
Notable geographical features:
The Wessian highlands, located to the west, bordered the Warnic Sea. These highlands serve as both a border to different people groups as well as housing their own unique cultures. Its highest peak is located at around 1600 meters above sea level.
The Yarnic plateau, a large relatively flat region of the Morgland Mountains. Located in the north western regions of the mountains, it’s a fairly isolated part of land and is very dry. As such, the animals living here are often quite specialised.
The Cuvail Islands, located to the southwest of the mountains. Very hospitable, though several species now face threats of new invasive species.
The Great Lake, the largest lake on the planet. Many of the animals living here are found nowhere else.
The Fingers, two large islands located to Utasha’s East. These islands split from the mainland before the continents collided and, therefore, serve as refuge to animal groups that went extinct during the biotic interchange. Both the fingers and the Great Lake were formed when their plate split from the Morgland plate and started drifting east.
The Wetten Isles: large equatorial islands hosting entirely unique fauna. It is composed of one large island and several smaller ones.
North Juliko: or just ‘Juliko’ is located in the southern hemisphere. The northern half of the continent is covered in forests and jungles, having a monsoon habitat. The southern half is much drier, colder and mountainous. The transitionary landscapes host unique habitats such as the paper mazes and scorched-wood forests.
Notable geographical locations:
The Lakelands, located in the northeast. A complex network of lakes and rivers surrounded by monsoon forests and wetlands. This is the most biodiverse region of the continent.
Austral Juliko: situated on Arellviks South Pole, the continent of Austral Juliko is entirely frozen over and functionally very similar to earths Antarctica. Austral Juliko only drifted so far south some 20 million years ago, this being the cause of the second Pruinian ice age. Austral and North Juliko used to be the same continent, but split shortly before the start of the Fracturocene and have been separated for around 130 million years (this would be closer to 95 million Earth years). The continent housed several unique genera before it froze over, including various ratbats, balloon foxes, molmice and even a lineage of jackalope that rafted over from Ceia (modern west Utasha) during the early Fracturocene. Though many of these animals went extinct during the glaciation event, some managed to survive by spreading to neighbouring islands, such as the smog-fire islands, or to North Juliko and the dragons already had a global distribution thanks to their ability to fly. Today the continent is only inhabited by animals that came here after it froze over, be it by flight or by swimming.
