The Glubchuck and the Unicorn

Above: the greater glubchuck is the largest of the farkles, easily the most aberrant among them and also among the most bizarre of all bronkjirds. A denizen of the dense tropical rainforest of inner Aenvarna, it feeds almost exclusively upon eusocial insects including bees, termites, and ants, and at about forty-five pounds and five feet in length it has become too large to glide, with its wings vestigial in the female but now forming bright and colorful display structures in the male. The single free finger is now hypertrophied into a powerful digging claw used alongside the two tusks in the jaw to open insect nests, and the reversed hallux on the foot is reduced to a dewclaw, as the glubchuck lives entirely on the ground and has little need to perch. When danger threatens, it now simply runs to safety, like its more typical relatives.

Below: what the glubchuck is among bronkjirds, the unicorns are among tyrannorats - an aberrant oddball member that suberts the general tropes for its group. While the glubchuck is a carnivorous member of a broadly plant-eating group, the unicorn is a predator-turned-vegetarian, not unlike a panda bear, that although not adorned with wings like the farkles has evolved something just as strange: a keratinous horn, the only one of its kind among all the theropodents, which is used defensively. The unicorn shares its habitat with the glubchuck and is a solitary, elusive creature of deep forest, where it feeds on lianas and vines in addition to figs and other seasonal fruits and berries. It carries the remnants of the specialized double-cusped killing incisors that all tyrannorats exhibit but they are highly reduced and of little use in feeding - the upper pair have spread apart to reveal a hard plate on the roof of the animal's mouth, against which the lower incisors grind to crop plant food in the manner of a deer. Unicorns are very basal tyrannorats and unlike many others they retain three well-developed fingers on their forearms each armed with large claws.