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In the warm woodlands of northern Uintaeus a variety of animals go about their daily lives. From the river, a mature female Kodaskian Ox-bear has pulled a small fish headed upriver to spawn and tears it apart with her sharp carnassials and powerful claw-like hooves. Large and omnivorous Xenodactylomorphs, the ox-bears are among the largest of all terrestrial 'ungulates', and are distant cousins to the smaller, more actively predatory and fox-like dreamcats, such as the tawny brushrunner depicted crossing the stream behind her, which exhibit much more basal traits including the lean bodyplan and more dog-like foot anatomy.
Pictured foraging alongside the stream as well as upon a low, dead branch are two very unique sorts of griffomorph ornithopods, among the most mammal-like of all their kin with low-slung quadrupedal gaits and otter-like habits. To the left we see a more typical white-crowned Pengora, a mink-like piscivore, and to the right a more unique sort, the duck-billed grumbler, which represents a unique and basal offshoot to the family which has returned secondarily to terrestrial and even arboreal habits, using a beak once hard and keratinous but now covered in soft, sensitive skin to root for small invertebrates in soil and rotting wood.
To the left, a small flock of Mousy Tigerwings gather to feed on grass seeds near the water. About six inches in length with a tail of equal size, they are among the smaller sorts of their squirrel-like kin, but not the smallest. In more open areas, finch-sized species of these volant multituberculates sometimes gather in flocks over 10 billion strong, devastating entire ecologies in migration until the tide is stemmed by the depletion of habitat they themselves cause.
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