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Taruk ref 2015

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Sooo, I had something similar in mind for some time. Please everyone, say hello to Taruk! The family grows up ;U; Anyway, why this name? In truth there isn't a particular reason, I wanted a "strong"one for a quite unfriendly beast. I thought that the name should include letter T and K, and after some time spent on it I decided for Taruk, which is really simple but personally I like a lot.
The color scheme is inspired by my bag xD I really like those colors and I strongly wanted to create an oc based on them.

So, Taruk is a quite small reptile, tall about 190cm and very thin. His ideal habitat are tropical forests like Amazon rainforest, where he can find huge trees to live on to escape bigger predators and human. He prefers to escape fights, because of his thin build and fragile wings' membranes. Anyway, he can be really aggressive if induced to defend himself.
Taruk doesn't use his strenght to procure food, he usually use his speed and fast movements to inflict mortal wounds and inject his poison. The poison is not fatal, for this reason Taruk needs to hit accurate the prey's throat or others weaknesses. It is necessary instead to make him able to eat the prey, because he has a very weak jaw and not enough strong teeth to tear the meat apart. The poison possess some enzymes, monoamine oxidase and protease, that has a primal digestive function. In this way the too hard meat for Taruk's teeth can be eaten easily because pre-digested.
Taruk's poison is sometimes used by aborigines for poisoning their weaponry, even if is very hard to obtain it, due to his solitary nature (they usually take it by dead poisoned prey's corpses).
Taruk presence can be warned easily while he's flying. His open membranes emit a characteristic acute whistle, and their bright colors can be seen through trees' branches and lianas.

That's all for now:D I really love this critter *^* I'm going to draw him a lot <3 I hope you appreciate him to, as I do :meow:

Taruk (c) Airaly
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Incredible!!!!!!!