I am a fuckign champion at getting stressed out over not having every aspect of a creature i made up be solidly grounded in logic and evolution and shit even tho i am doing this For Fun and I Know Fuckall like In General
I am suffering the constant exercise of learning to have fun and not nitpick my own stuff to death
Like. Why do tallcranes have bigass pointy ears even tho they fly a lot and it'd be really goddamn loud to have bunny ears in the air? And also they are primarily sight-based predators?
Well you see. it's bc i like putting bigass pointy ears on my creatures
It's also bc their ears are Not There, they have tiny lil ear holes covered by thin hair similar to birds, and what Look like ears are actually solely display structures used to communicate with their own species over vast distances bc a lot of their hunting grounds have long sightlines and for an animal that is Mostly Wings they sure do spend a lot of their time wandering around on the ground like omnivorous magic giraffes. So they are out there doing some sort of semaphore shit. With their ears
But yeah the primary reason is bc i like putting big ears on things