Sapiocorvid Concept Art

Sapient, primitive-culture magpies of Novacene Australia; use complex tools, have complex language, live in advanced social groups.

A. Two individuals beginning to butcher a lagormorphid captured in a sisal snare using "hand knives", as opposed to "bill knives" (pictured around several of their necks). The leg structure of the species is highly derived, with the once fully reversed digit having moved inward to the side, forming a highly effective thumb and giving the animal great manual dexterity.

B. Possible posture of an individual operating a simple bow/arrow from a high vantage point.

C. Direct, active act of predation, flying above the prey animal and stabbing/shooting from a short height crude wooden spears (due to the constraints of flight a long-distance shot would be impossible) to subdue it.

D. Construction of a flint and wood spear, tying the two pieces together, after laboriously chiseling the rock fragment to the needed sharpness.