Gjuh-U [Swamp bat]

"Yea, I’ve already seen the so-called actual bats. Not spectacular in any respect. Ya know, the fly flies too… yea, they're simply large flies, nothing extra. And the Gjuh-U is the Swamp Sovereign, an actual beast, not a flying nonsense."

© Wogh-hwug Gwueh-tsvagh, wandering poet, Free thinker.

The looks of bats on the territory of the Swampland is a direct consequence of the Epoch of Nice Compression. The whole bat inhabitants inhabiting the Kama mountain vary migrated south as a result of extreme chilly snap. For a similar purpose, the bats had been compelled to stay in a wooded areas, sheltering from the chilly wind within the timber.

That is what began the distinctive means of evolution. Based on the Forest of Brushes [Swampland's scientific community] analysis, dense swamp forests didn’t permit bats to fly freely at their dimension, and with a lower in dimension, bats wouldn’t have the ability to compete with different predators. Subsequently, the bats refused to fly in any respect, which allowed them to develop considerably and develop into heavier [this is just one of many theories] That's how Gjuh-U appeared. Nonetheless, most newts have by no means seen different bat species [newts as a species were formed much later than the Epoch of Great Compression], so Gjuh-U are thought-about by them to be true bats.

Gjuh-U are very giant [the size of a small crocodile] solitary predators. They’re not capable of fly, however because of their highly effective entrance paws they climb timber completely, run quick [on two forepaws] on dry land and leap far in Swamp. The hind paws are fairly small and weak, so the middle of gravity of the predator is situated nearer to the chest. Gjuh-U have wonderful eyesight and scent, as well as they nonetheless use echolocation.

The Gjuh-U's major weapon is its jaws. Having caught up with the prey, the predator holds it with the tenacious clawed fingers of its entrance paws and both bites by means of the throat or rips a bit of the backbone out of the neck. An auxiliary weapon is a nerve toxin. The glands are situated within the tongue, and after biting by means of the prey's pores and skin, the Gjuh-U licks the wound. The toxin briefly paralyzes the prey, stopping it from resisting.

Gjuh-U's small wings will not be a vestige, since now they’ve a protecting operate. Thick keratinized pores and skin is an efficient armor in opposition to snake bites, and the Gjuh-U can shut its wing as a protect. Sure, due to the dimensions and peculiarities of metabolism and digestion, Gjuh-U hunt solely giant animals, each herbivores and different predators.

The actual fact is Gjuh-U have a particularly quick metabolism, in order that they spend an enormous quantity of power looking. Subsequently, they spend most of their lives dozing the other way up in timber. Gjuh-U hunts one time per 2-3 months, drags its prey up a tree and eats it for a very long time. Its toxin additionally has balsamic properties, and with fixed licking, prey meat could be saved for years. And because of this life-style, Gjuh-U can stay for hundreds of years, as their metabolism virtually stops throughout relaxation.

The Gjuh-U is taken into account by newts to be one of many three Sovereigns of the Swamp, and due to this fact they’re by no means hunted. As a substitute, newts use Gjuh-U's saliva and feces as elements of medicines. For this goal, there are specifically educated newts who carry out the rituals of providing. The newt brings the contemporary meat to the Gjuh-U on a big tray, the Gjuh-U eats the meat, and as an indication of gratitude licks the tray and defecates on it. Gjuh-U are very good, bear in mind acquainted newts and by no means assault them. Nonetheless, the Gjuh-U will kill any newt unfamiliar to it attempting to strategy its tree [they have a pretty strong territorial instinct]

Due to this, Free Newts tame Gjuh-U and plant timber for them on the border of their camp territory in order that dormant predators serve them as border guards. Such Gjuh-U are known as Gagh-yu-Gjuh [lord bat], attacking it means extreme insulting your complete native prison group. The Free Newts even have an annual festivals honoring the Gagh-yu-Gjuh. Moreover the standard amusements, predators are embellished with white paint, poems are written on their wings and their timber are hung with coloured flags and captured loyalists [this is how Free Newts call all newts who support the Sovereign and the Swamp Council] Through the competition, Gagh-yu-Gjuh kills and embalms all victims. On this method Free Newts exhibit the prevalence of Heaven [nature] over the pretend energy of residing beings.