Spiny Garke

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Common Names: Baläwüsk garke, spiny garke
Classification: Mammal; The spiny garke are omnivorous hunters of insects and other small animals. They also have been known to eat fruit and other portions of various desert plants. Due to their scaled appearance, they are sometimes mistaken for a type of legless lizard.

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Appearance: Spiney Garke have the typical body form of a garke, with a longish neck and tail, and a wider girthed midsection. they lack visible appendages, and are covered in scales. Their name comes from the backward projecting array of spines radiating from the creatures head and neck. These spines are not known to be poisonous. The creature’s bite is a hardened beak, with which it crushes small prey, and vegetable matter.
Sexual Dimorphism: This species shows greater gender dimorphism, with the females being dull brown desert sandstone in colour, while males are banded with white ring every 4 centimetres (3 inches), and far easier to spot.
Variance: No known sub-species exist.

Habitat: Found exclusively within the deserts of Krolar.
Diet: Omnivores eating a variety of plant material and small animals or insects.

Social Grouping: They do not stray far from their communal underground nests, and are often found in small groups.
Temperament: Wary. If grasped, these creatures will lurch backwards to impale its captor with their fringe of spines..
Intelligence: Animal
Reproduction: Live birthing of three to six young in the spring in communal burrows. Young will remain in the colony of their birth unless population pressure exceeds available food.