#'tober

[isjasz]

Sometimes when you look at your knife between battles The glinting of the light splits along the blade’s edge and Reflects onto your cheek with a four-point star Like the weapon itself is cradling your face [the way I can’t]

definitelynottober day 2 - on the edge of a knife

[cadere-art]

The spotted lesser owlcat is a small predator of the owlcat family - flat-faced theropods with small wings, a curved toe claw, and a facial disk. Lesser owlcats of various species are found all over Uanlikri.

Like other owlcats, it hunts by ambush, targeting primarily birds and other flighted small prey. It prefers mixed habitats of wetland and woodland: its distinctive mix of spots and stripes confer it good camouflage under the canopy and among riverside bushes and sparse reeds.

Antiole activity cutting down forests to build artificial wetlands for the cultivation of swamp rice has led to the spotted lesser owlcat's range diminishing in favour of its close cousin, the banded lesser owlcat.

[krankittoeleven]

'Tober Prompt #5 - Nature

Stray // Ant Village & The Outside

[cadere-art]

The belted scrub owlcat is the largest and most widespread of the lesser owlcats. It favors dryer, sparsely wooded areas such as brushland, scrubland, prairies, and fields. Its range encompasses most of the continent, from the deserts and brushlands to the North to the alpine scrubland of the Kantishian Mountains.

There are several subspecies of the belted owlcat with some variety in pattern and colour, but all are readily distinguished from other lesser owlcats by their distinctive dark belt and the lack of eyespots on their wings.

The belted scrub owlcat's range is not contiguous: changing topology due to evolving climates and competition by the banded lesser owlcat has created a discontinuity where the northern part of its range, encompassing the Atashir Desert, Zaroub, and Dedjallad mountains, not longer meets the southern part of its range, which covers the Kantishian Mountains and the Matar desert.

[cadere-art]

The polar lesser owlcat is the second largest lesser owlcat species and the one with the southernmost range. It is found south of the Kantishian Range and in the Kantishian's highest plateaus. Its territories often overlap with those of the brush lesser owlcat, but they rarely enter into competition due to their different prey preferences. The two species can hybridize, and hybrids are especially common in the high plateaus.

Pure polar lesser owlcat have a much paler winter coat. The polar lesser owlcat has the largest non-sickle claws proportional to its size of all olwcat species.

[cadere-art]

The banded lesser owlcat is a member of the owlcat family, a group of noctural ambush predators with short wings, a curved toe claw, and a facial disk.

The banded lesser owlcat is native to the Great Plains region and prefers habitats of tall grasses and reeds. Because of this, it has slowly been displacing its close cousing, the spotted lesser owlcat, by colonizing fields and artificial wetlands created by antiole activity.

[cadere-art]

The Ki lesser owlcat is the smallest species of owlcat. It favours forested areas and is more aboreal than other owlcat species. It takes its name from its range, with mostly coincides with the lands inhabited by the Ki peoples: Uanlikri's equatorial archipelago, Petitwi mountains, and the Huwei, Shuwei, and Ojame archipelagoes.

There are several subspecies of Ki lesser owlcats whose morphology and habits are tailored to their specific archipelago. Mainland Ki lesser owlcats primarily hunt small prey and tend to establish themselves in the territories of larger predators such as jiwi, where there is less competition from other owlcats. The Ojame owlcat is unique in that it preferentially hunts the Ojame Hêtâ, which is larger than itself.

[cadere-art]

The rufous boskcock is a pheasanid galliform and a close relative to the yellowtail boskcock. It is a rather large bird and a poor flyer, making in a subject of debate among local antioles as to whether it qualifies as a bird at all.

Like the yellowtail boskcock, the rufous boskcock's tail feathers were historically of little value before colonization by the Senq Ha Empire, the native peoples in its range prefering to work with more rigid feathers. Though its extravagant tail plumes are beloved by the settlers, they have little trade value because the bird is abundant in the northern part of the Kantishian which is under Senq Ha control.