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The Golimog

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The Golimog are a genus of small, highly derived, troglobite rodents native to the upper subterranean rivers and pools of the cave systems found just beneath the surface of the Wumbian Basin. Descended from open-water, sighted ancestors, these unusual squirrel-sized Foons are the sole group to retain their forelimbs - a single very long finger on either side of their chest, long atrophied in other modern species, is used to feel around the rocky riverbed in the eternal darkness that is their home. The nose of the animal too has evolved to assist in 'seeing' in a world without light, and is rich with sensitive finger-like protrusions used to feel for prey, typically small invertebrates. Having fallen from the open rivers above down into these caverns long ago, Golimog have wholly lost their vision, their eyes covered by skin - and navigate by touch and smell alone. Like their free-swimming kin which roam Wumbian rivers and the southern oceans alike, they are considered to be entirely aquatic, breeding and rearing their well-formed young directly in the water and never coming upon land.
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EmmetEarwax's avatar
Possibly Earth's 3rd hemisphere. (Lord Dunsany can be blamed for THAT term.)