Dark Chiselhead

Appearance
A Dark Chiselhead looks very much like regular Chiselheads but has an almost completely black coloration. The shape of the heads is a little bigger and the claws are a bit shorter. The tail tip is flat vertically and is shaped like the end of a tail fin. Altogether the Dark Chiselhead is slightly larger in size.

Habitat and Ecology
Dark Chiselheads inhabit the same habitat in the Relentless Stream and Moor regular ones live in but is nocturnal. Unlike its close relatives this subspecies doesn't build hills but instead projectiles of mud, which it cuts into pyramid shape, and carves grooves into these for better aerodynamics. These mud projectiles are launched into the air to hit flying Neopterons which are the main prey of the Dark Chiselhead. Sometimes they destroy mudhills built by their relatives which inconveniences the architect greatly having to spend a lot of time to build it anew.

The Brute Wyvern possesses no permanent nest and builds small notches in the mud to sleep for the night. The lack of a dependence to the hills as means to get food possibly is the reason for this more nomadic behavior. They are better swimmers than their cousins and use their modified tails to swim fast. The mating behavior is almost identical to that of the common Chiselhead. While they are much rarer in comparison with their relatives, the nocturnal life style helps them to avoid predators more easily.

While this variant descends from a melanistic common Chiselhead, the dark coloration and nocturnal life style actually caused these individuals to diverge from the line of the common Chiselheads and emerge as an own subspecies. While mating among both subspecies occurs from time to time, they both usually distinguish themselves from the other. As both life styles and hunting methods differ so much, competetition between them isn't an issue as well.

Related Endemic Life

 * Chiselhead
 * Ice Sculpturer

Obtainable Rewards and Materials

 * Rewards for capture: 150 Research Points
 * Materials left behind: Mud Projectile (Slinger ammo)