Fat-Neck Whiptail

This large bovine creature can grow up to 8 meters tall, and weigh nearly 20 tons! It spends around 13 hours per day eating berries and nuts and will eat upwards of 3,000 lbs. The nuts they eat are cracked open with their sharp, hawk-like beaks, and are highly carcinogenic, which can make the Whiptails subject to many types of cancer, but primarily in the bones. The Whiptails are famous for their massive size and impressive lifespan, as a healthy male Whiptail can live for up to 550 Earth years, while the females can live nearly 600 Earth years! These gentle giants can be found primarily in the Edenese Savanna. The Whiptails come in a variety of patterns and colors, with some sub-species have spots, and others with stripes, etc. The Fatnecks rely purely on size alone to avoid predators, while other species of the same genus, (Ram Ingens) are more agile and strong, with most growing horns or tusks of some sort, preferring to fight rather than ignore. Even though they have few predators, they can be attacked by groups of Baur if they are not careful. The Whiptail is a solitary animal, only meeting up in the winter to migrate south to breed. The males’ crests can be as long as 1 1/5 Volkswagen Beetles, or around 20 feet! They use this crest to attract mates during migration, and also to perform fights, similar to a mountain goat. The creatures, as the name implies, can have vertebras nearly 6 feet wide. The meat of the Whiptail is considered to be an Edian delicacy, and in some cultures, is said to cure most diseases. The baby Whiptail mainly feeds on small bugs and lizards, as they have not developed a beak and can’t eat the hard nuts and berries. Baby whiptails are around 8 feet long and can mature in just a few years. because of their fast-maturing, they must eat more than 3,500 lbs of food every day, to feed their insane metabolism. The Whiptails are omnivores and start early on eating a mainly meat-based diet, but as they grow older and their metabolism slows down, they begin to switch to a more herbivorous diet. although they have been known to resort to cannibalism if times get hard. The skin of a Whiptail is rubbery, and nearly impossible to puncture or shoot through, which makes herding these beasts quite a difficult job. On both sides of the crest, it has two large eyes, meant for the sole purpose of locating superpredators, such as the Omnirex, which like to feed on all below it on the food chain, (aka everything.)