Elephant Raptor

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Common Name: Elephant Raptor (Pachystruthio verdansia)

Diet: Carnivore

Habitat: Wetland/Woodland

Summary: Towering predator with a powerful, spiked beak used for hunting and defense. In tentative peace with Rubiginosa, largely due to little hunting ground overlap.

Threat Rating: ● ● ● ● ○

(Notes provided by Bart Torgal.)

Apex predator, able to kick large prey into submission or ram it with the leading edge of the beak and snap large bones to render an animal helpless before shredding into small enough fragments for chicks roughly the size of adult humans to consume, or else swallow whole.

Sounds like a large engine stalling, with subharmonics that cause acute discomfort in some people. Any human casualties tend to be due to being kicked and gored. Danger scale raises to 5 if there are chicks or fledglings present.

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