Globe Moss and Frog Bunnies of the Sea Ice
Added 2022-07-13 08:11:36 +0000 UTCSome miscellaneous worldbuilding for the avian homeplanet. The poles both have permanent sea ice fields, which are difficult to colonize for life for the same reason sand dunes are. The surface constantly shifts (although much slower than a dune) as it's shaped by wind, currents, melting, and precipitation.
In the North pole, the dominant ecosystem on the ice is globe fields, which are full of rolling balls of moss and frost tolerant worm plants. They very slowly roll across the ice, being pushed uphill by the worms into sunlight as they slowly melt whatever ice they sit upon.
All of the moss globes are host to suite of small cold tolerant invertebrates, but a small fraction are also nests for globe bunnies. These small endotherms hollow out the inside of mossball and pack it with insulation. They feed voraciously on invertebrates and other mossballs, though they will also trim the "lawn" surrounding their house, to keep it at a manageable size and roundness for rolling about.
Polar avians find the bunnies tasty. The second image features one of the larger coastal cities on the North pole landmass. It is essentially one large interconnected building, in classic polar avian style.
Comments
These bunnies look like they could give a nasty bite.
Rigel Regent
2022-07-19 15:32:45 +0000 UTCthe rolling ball might gather material from the environment? katamari biology
Guilherme TΓΆws
2022-07-15 10:34:56 +0000 UTCSo what exactly is the nature of the horn worms' and other tube worms' photosynthesis and what do they consume from their environments?
Swansea
2022-07-14 03:49:18 +0000 UTCoooh! β€οΈ really neat stuff
Simone Spinozzi
2022-07-13 19:23:45 +0000 UTCBirb gun π Also find it neat that Polar Cities are basically just like an indoor shopping mall lmao...one big longggg building
The Faerie Fox
2022-07-13 11:15:15 +0000 UTCThat bird has a GUN
squishiepeepz
2022-07-13 10:36:39 +0000 UTC
