The rapag blusterbeast is a species of blusterbeast scorner native to the Rapag Woods of central Allun. It is a relatively small sized member of its clade, a roughly eleven foot tall animal at the shoulders. Like most scorners, they are highly social herbivorous paramniotes that live in very large herds of mixed sex individuals.
Blusterbeasts are a sub-clade of scorners that have evolved a thickened skull roof and keratinous covering, both of which form a dome atop their heads. The genus to which the rapag blusterbeast belongs to has instead a dome that is nearly perfectly flattened.
These domes evolved for intraspecific conflicts. Both sexes possess these structures, and use them against fellow blusterbeasts of the same sex. Males fight to win access to mate with as many females as possible, and females fight to gain first claim of dominant males and prime nesting sites.
Adaptations to hold up their domes has resulted greatly enlarged spinal processes that anchor strong ligaments, stiff neck vertebrae, and thick muscles running down their necks and back. As such, mobility of the neck is highly limited in all angles. This forces them to feed mostly by browsing. The four pronged rhamphotheca characteristic of their clade in the paramniote tree are flat and bladed, aiding to shear plant material and ease in feeding.
Being so small for their clade, many blusterbeasts prefer to exclusively flee from predators. The rapag blusterbeast, similar to a handful other species, go a step further and climb onto the great trees of the Rapag Woods in their flight. All scorners maintain the retractable claws of their previously arboreal ancestors for one reason or another, even the titanic spirehorn scornbeast. Blusterbeasts put these to good use, even being able to climb incredibly fast in spite of what their anatomy would suggest.
