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Birb of the day is back! This time I won't make up for missed days, it's been a few months. 19th April- Philippine dwarf kingfisher! Wins the title for looking fantastic and also silly Fun fact: there are multiple subspecies of this bird. While the southern subspecies has a more intense purple, the northern subspecies have blue spotting on their wings. (this makes me want to modify the design of my birb fursona, Lo-Fi, with inspiration from these guys (paticularly the second picture)

Playing around with layer modes once again

Two remade OC refs for Artfight + I finally made a ref for Meteorite (who I also uploaded to Artfight)

I always used to love drawing abominations made by the rangen species generator. I revisited it, created the Gert. Fully generated result: The Gert Appearance A medium, familiar, hexapedal mammal with a camel head with a fleshy crest on its head, goat ears, no visible nose, and a shark-like jaw. It has a goose neck, and its shoulders are rounded. It has a rat torso with a thick waist. It has six medium-length, rhino legs and a fish tail. The Gert's whole body is covered in bristles, except its tail which is covered in hair. Most of its body is mahogany, while the rest of its body is cream. Gert Stats Average Height: 5 feet / 1.5 meters Average Lifespan: 116 years Maturity: 30 years Breeding age: 17 years No. of young: 7 every 34 years Population: Over-population Temperament: Aggressive Diet: Fish, Amphibians, and Animal skin Family life Gert males mate for life, but females are secretly promiscuous. Competition between males is often deadly; the winning male earns breeding rights; the loser often dies from his wounds. The Gert lives in massive family groups led by the eldest female, and young females normally leave their families and live in big groups when they are mature. General - They are exceptionally good at climbing trees. - They have extremely high levels of endurance. - Their call can be heard more than 49 miles / 78.9 kilometers away.

Fluffy prince

Having played Niche as a teen when it was still in its early developmental stages and having since gone on to study biology, it's super special to me and I would love to see it expanded or a sequel! I'm a bit late to this post and stumbled across it by accident, but many of the following ideas have lived in my mind since forever and saw some of them had already been brought up. I saw some mention of seasons, I think it would be really nice to also include hibernation as a survival tactic for the winter months. I would love to see the underwater scene expanded more! I've been missing water based predators. There were already some suggestions on underwater "islands" or biomes and thought this could even go as far as making a deep sea location with limited/no light and a bunch of traits to adapt to this (bioluminescence, angler fish light to attract prey, tentacles for detection instead of vision, water filtering for food like baleen whales, mollusc body to deal with the pressure etc.). One thing I was missing a lot in water Nichelings was electro receptors. Many underwater species make use of these (including platypus) and for that to allow underwater detection of fish outside of sight range or to detect the digging spots for platypus would be great. Or even an extra sense being added to water body, as the lateral line in fish can detect water movement and this would allow for muddy water to exist with limited sight visibility. Since the addition of birds and them being able to sit in trees, I thought arboreal traits would have gone real well as an alternative to getting your Nichelings take to the trees. The bugs and seeds of trees can now only be exploited by birds and having a prehensile tail or climbing paw/hindlegs would be a great addition to expanding this mechanic. On the opposite end I would also love to see a (semi) fossorial system included, it's quite a common tactic in animals and to be able to make burrows to escape predators would be great! I believe there was already some mention of dens. I could imagine it as premade burrowing spots that your Nicheling needs digging trait to make a burrow, or even fallen logs or tree hollows. What would be really cool but maybe more difficult to implement would be to allow Nichelings to create burrows and expand them to any tile and make several entrances (could be restricted to meadow or sand tiles). I couldn't have agreed more with the posts about traits evolving on a scale, this would be super exciting! It could even go as far as to have intermediate stages between wing development from paws or even hip morphology changes to allow for an upright stance, to mimic the main evolutionary pathways that we see in paleontological/evolutionary studies. Ideally the intermediate stages would already have some advantage, as otherwise they wouldn't stay in the population for long enough to progress. The 50% mutation rate that the player can implement for two genes in the current Niche makes it a bit too easy in my opinion. Ideally this could be adjustable by the player depending on how easy or difficult they want to make it to themselves. Useful mutations are quite rare in nature and most of the mutations occurring tend to be detrimental. Although theoretically one mutation in one gene can do the trick, often an accumulation of a bunch of mutations is necessary to really create a phenotypic change. I'm not sure how this could be implemented in underlying game mechanics, but to see a more realistic approach to the genes and mutating traits would be really cool. Although the idea of having a photosynthesising Nicheling also gets me quite excited, but it's a bit further from realistic systems. Last point I'll bring up for now, would be to implement herbivores, omnivores and carnivores (etc.), Nichelings being able or unable to digest certain foods would be really interesting. As example omnivores could be able to eat everything but get less nutrients out of both, whilst the more specialised diets would allow maximum nutrient uptake. Overall I would generally like to see a lot more variety and widespread traits, genes and survival tactics, so that there is more to discover and explore. There are is so much inspiration to take from all the different species out there! But of course this would make the game a lot bigger, which also comes with a developmental cost. I think even the current Niche still has a lot of space for new cool traits and interactable creatures to be added. I still had a few more trait ideas, but this has become lengthy enough already

day whichever one it is of my toby fox game brainrot deltarune character designs yippee!! i could only be bothered to draw the main six for now though (and jevil. idk man i just really felt like drawing jevil) uhh. this angst.png this is an image i imagined alongside a really cool fanmade battle theme for ralsei that i would totally make if i knew. literally anything about music and this (the file name for this is "KRIS WHY ARE WE IN A LOW RES JPEG" and i made this because a) i figured out how to turn the image quality way down and b) i thought it'd be funny)

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Oasisstar gave birth to two kits! They are both healthy and the birth went well! The long-haired one is a she-kit named Pumakit The short-haired one is a tom named Pigeonkit

random confession: i don't really consider Andromeda one of my sonas anymore She's still a very important character to me as she was one of my first real OCs with a developed backstory and universe (i drew her for the first time when i was 7 or 8), but now she's more of a mascot My actual fursona is Equinox, the goddess of balance in Animalia/Humalia lore :>.

Goldleeches are predators to me /j

welcome to my art thread i enjoy drawing my ocs.... here is a ref i finished last night this is tdeco, he is basically me. it accidentally created a bunch of alternate universe versions of itself called the dolanverse

two in a day heeheeheh

another dolanverse ref yippeeeeee this is slice aka scourge from warrior cats if he sucked

It must suck to be the male of this species You have to fight for the death for a girlfriend and then she cheats on you

I imagine, based on how thin and weak their back legs look, they move similarly to bunnies in that their front legs can move independently but they move their back legs together, and that the reason bearyenas can move faster than nichelings with all the bearyena genes is simply because their bodies are larger and more accustomed to the strong, heavy limbs and head. I also imagine they communicate in a combination of vocalisations and body language, and their language is still much more advanced than say, dogs and cats, but not nearly as complex as human speech. add yours :3

yep, i swear i heard the spongebob boowomp sound-

Zelda BotW going to ignore the dwarf comment

Four autistic disguised aliens try to live among humans secretly as basically superheroes, immediately get busted by ten year old and adopted by his family, cue them saving the island from daily horrible disaster number three, Jules Verne is a time traveler but this is glossed over (show)

Pumakit and Pigeonkit’s picrew forms

These are the Sheathkins (I made the ref sheet a while ago I might redesign)

Some ref sheets of the things Crystalkins, the insect creatures that used to be foxes They often have thick fur. One of the main prey sources. They live underground. They can be intelligent (ranging from dogs to parrots) or just dumb fish or seals Sentinel things (I will redesign them because they’re literally just a redesign of the Murder Drones ones) Rosekins (Slightly artificial creatures with short life expectancies)

The council will decide your fate.

Snakefang certainly seems like a name not suitable for a cat as cute and fluffy as him, but his fighting skills make up for it. Snakefang was raised by rogues who were banished from clans and worshiped the Dark Forest. Snakefang knew how to fight from a very young age just to keep himself alive. The drought hit his group hard and they all left him behind to find greener pastures (literally), seeing him as more of a burden than anything. Snakefang didn’t let this dissumade him, however, it just made him want to change his ways and become a cat better than his parents.

hello! it's been a while so i thought i should make a new introduction. im dolan!!! i also go by the name lawrence/larry. i am an autistic hobbyist artist. i use it/it's. i've loved niche since 2016 and i originally joined the forums in 2018!!! [but i lost that account due to steam log-in breaking...] i have lots of niche ocs too!!! they are from a hypothetical future where nichelings replace humans as the dominant intelligent species i beta-tested the mobile game and i own both the steam and nintendo switch versions of the game!! i think it's safe to say that niche is my favorite game other than maaaaybe a few pokemon games... outside of niche, i love lots of media! pokemon has been my life-long special interest and gen 7 is forever my favorite. my favorite pokemon are rotom, grimmsnarl, swoobat, perrserker, alolan golem, and clefable! i also like warrior cats! my favorites are scourge, yellowfang, crowfeather, lionblaze, and bluestar. i also enjoy ginga, sonic the hedgehog, my singing monsters, wolfquest, and lots of other things. i am always willing to make new friends :v)

hiiiii welcome back . I probably don't know u so hii I also love warrior cats and bluster is cool

Half of my YouTube shorts feed is hazbin hotel content when ive literally never watched the show 💀

hey y'all!! I'm cooking up something... the next time I upload more sight of stars content, you guys will get three chapters in one post because I had to split up chapter 2 (it was WAY too long.)

Me: Sees image and can literally hear what he says in the show Me: wonders why the subtitles were blurred out Me: realises with the caption

I decided to make my own version of what prey is dangerous to cats because I am unsatisfied with the original one. This list includes non-harmful venomous prey because I feel like making it more of a challenge. Each animal has a different chance of hurting a cat depending on their skill and how dangerous the animal is. Poisonous and venomous animals can be identified by the medicine cat and prepared to be an antivenin or antidote. There is a 50% chance of envenomation for each lost hunt against a venomous animal, what happens after that is dependent on the risk level of each animal. I’m deleting all of the animals on this list that I don’t have the packs for. Low risk: 1-80: the cat is fine 81-95: the cat has mild symptoms 95-98: the cat has severe symptoms 99-100: the cat will die if not treated Medium risk: 1-50: the cat is fine 51-75: the cat has mild symptoms 76-90: the cat has severe symptoms 90-100: the cat will die if not treated High risk: 1-20: the cat is fine 21-40: the cat has mild symptoms 41-70: the cat has severe symptoms 71-100: the cat will die if not treated Venomous: Lizards: Pygmy Komodo Dragon (high risk) Snakes: Garter Snake (low risk) San Francisco Garter Snake (low risk) Malayan Krait Snake (high risk) Rodents: Shrew (low risk) Aquatic Animals: Jellyfish (high risk) Deathfish (high risk) Beetles: Spider (medium risk) Non-venomous dangerous animals: Lizards: Iguana (low risk) Rodents: Rat (low risk) Womrat (low risk) Pygmy Hedgehog (low risk) Birds: Parakeet (medium risk) Large birds: Cockatoo (medium risk) African Grey Parrot (medium risk) Blue-Gold Macaw (medium risk) Catalina Macaw (medium risk) Yellow-Naped Amazon (medium risk) Falcon (medium risk) Spotted Sixam (low risk to adults, high risk to kits) Aquatic Animals: Piranha (medium risk) Shark (high risk) Vampire Fish (medium risk) Lobster (medium risk) Robot Fish (high risk) Beetles: Termite (low risk) Poisonous: Aquatic Animals: Blowfish (high risk) Robot Fish (high risk) Sewer trilobite (medium risk)

"now, he's using werewolves so i would allow this, but this would be your third attempt to make a mech out of some american symbol and it will probably fail again."

I did not know this until I read this on pintrest about two months ago

ohhhh what a sweet name ! And she does look like a labrador my dog is named Happy !!! and he is always happy :)) he is a young border collie

YEEESSS....... THE BLORBOS...... GOOD ART

also me getting the aranga egg in DA

Meet Oasispaw. She is my starter cat. She is the sole survivor of SunClan. A clan nestled deep within the desert. A horrible drought hit this clan many moons ago and almost every cat left to find better territory or died from hunger, dehydration or heat. Oasispaw was prophesied to save her clan, however, in her eyes she failed. Oasispaw has been warrior-aged for many moons, however, without a clan she will remain an apprentice. Oasispaw seeks to restore her clan by inviting loners to join her, however, in this harsh environment, it is difficult to find anyone willing to help her. Oasispaw had travelled into a two-leg camp to survive the drought by drinking two-leg water and eating any animals attracted to the two-leg camp. After many moons, the drought is over and Oasispaw seeks out her old camp. We will find out who she’ll meet along the way and what may happen to her. Oasispaw is a small and thin hairless grey tabby she-cat with amber eyes and numerous scars gained through fighting rogues and loners for prey during the drought.

Summoning ritual. It’s the feasting time.

Confession: for a second I was baffled because MLP has 6 main characters 💀

YEET, NEW SCUG DESIGNS BECAUSE WHY NOT how the heck do i always forget spoiler things, HUNTER SPOILERS aaa

I also did this Flight Rising (I’ve been getting back into it!) thing, it’s Pacific, one of the dragons I own

unhinged players never fail to entertain

Glass

Marshie!! Anako's daughter she's sweet and like the only one of Anako's children with some actual manners Siqu popped up one day and she was just 'AWOOGA 😍'

Krisp!! her I only bred her parents because Sirako was the only one without kids and Sane was the only adult male i was eating a rice krispie treat when she was born. guess where the name came from

Chip Chip!! I miss him, he was just a cool guy who dug up roots and sat next to his best friend on the tree stump he loved his wife Krisp a lot, they were a power couple

and heres some breeding pairs from before i left Cheesecake and Tea (Anako's son) Vindin and Meluka Chip Chip and Krisp (their daughter Cooki is still very much alive) and Siqu and Marshie (Anako's daughter) they werent compatible immunity-wise but it was love at first sight man

Tako: Why isn't the statue smirking at me? Tornado: It isn't smirking at anyone, they're just imagining it. Modiano: Three of us saw it. How do you explain that? Tornado: *points at Liz* sleep deprivation *points at Modiano* paranoia* points at Blizzard* Delusional personality disorder ---------------------- Birb: Lets write a friendly note to Star... "Dear... Incompetent... Dumb***" ----------------------- Tornado: Hi- Dead: Leave before there's a terrible misunderstanding between my foot and your a**. ------------------------ Fade: I didn't even realize how sarcastic I was being. Its starting to become a real problem I think.