Other random facts about Esox and Labrids (and other organisms from Janus in general:
- Nearly all Janic “animals” are actually a composite between two separate species. The brain and central nervous system (as well as several glands and some other tissues) , are a part of a separate superficially fungus-like symbiotic organism that lives inside the body, which it stimulates to move and gets nutrients from. The body itself has its own separate “brain” in the abdomen, tho not very intelligent on its own. Basically Labrids and Esox are more like a sapient cordyceps then they are intelligent spider-fish-dinos
- The “tail” on Janic land animals, unlike the tail of earth vertebrates, evolved from a muscular lobed dorsal fin as the swimming tail was reduced and became part of the torso. Because of this their tails have rather limb like anatomy, which is especially apparent in some species like the Esox
- The Esox are Mesocarnicores with a bigger taste for meat. The Labrids are predominantly Herbivores.
- Labrids, like the fish they get their name from, are protogynous and polygynous, where family units start between bonding groups of mature females, and (usually) either the most assertive or robust or eldest of the group ends up becoming male over the course of a year. The Esox of course happen to be protandrous and historically matriarchal, and another source of confusion between the two species.
- They speak with the two spiracles on the sides rather then their mouths, and are among the best speakers of oral alien languages. One of the less friendly terms Labrids call humans roughly means stomach speaker due to us “vomiting our words”
