Coalitte Sketch

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Coalitte

<sub>Coalittes are carnivores who enhabit barren volcanic areas. In general, they live in large colonies, and some lived in small packs. Their distinctive features are their fiery long ears and tail, bright colored tuft of hair between the ears or mane, dorsal stripes, long body and short legs. Despite their adorable appearance and friendly nature, they aren’t suitable as pets because they tend to burn things around them.

Coals have excellent hearings and sense of smell. Their vision is average and color blind. They communicate by barks and howls. They can produce various sounds as well, though rarely. A cornered coal might hiss to intimidate it’s enemy. They have different colored flames and the mosy usual is burning red. Their eyes almost always are the same color as their fire.

Coalittes eats almost everything they can find in their harsh habitat, from eggs, small mammals and lizards, bugs, and even scavenging dead preys of other creatures. They may also threatens a large predators to give up on their kills by surrounding them in large number. They are known to be fierce and persistent hunters and able to take down a huge prey by attacking all together. They will also eat fruits and berries, but this is rarely available at their natural habitat.

These mammals have short, strong legs they used to walk and climb. They have five toes on each forepaws and three on the hinds. They resemble a lizard when they walk, wriggling from sides to sides. They can also stand on their hind legs as they scout around or communicate. Coalittes can breathe fire, however, instead of flaring from their mouth or nose, flames spat out from their hollow spines at their back. These spines grew in a line across their dorsal stripe. These flames are used to intimidate foes.

This fiery creatures rely on the volcanoes to maintain their body heat. They need a surprisingly high temperature to stay alive. If a coalitte doesn’t have sufficient heat, it’s fire will eventually grow weaker and die along side the individual. It is almost impossible for them to stay alive outside the volcano area.

Their sleek coat are fire-resistant. Young coals are brighter colored, and their fur will darken as they get older. It is believed that this occurs due to the heat of the volcanoes and flames. But this cannot be proven since they cannot survive in cooler place. A very old coals usually have pitch black fur. Their bright mane, dorsal stripe, paws may maintain their color, usually in males, but not always.

Adult males have well-grown mane and collar ruff. Females are smaller with usually darker colored fur. They are vivipars and gave birth to 3-4 pups per litter. Newborns are furred and can see, though their sense had not developed much. Their ears and tails burns shortly after birth. Females are very protective of their babies and will not let any other creatures, including fellow coals or even her mate, to come close to her pups. Coalittes’ mating season is when the volcanoes nearly active and produce great heat.

A subspecies of coalitte live in scorching deserts. Desert coalittes is very similar to their volcanic cousin and can even bred. They don’t have fiery ears and tails, althought they still can produce fire. The desert specie have larger bodies and brighter colors. They live in smaller groups.</sub>


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Coalittes is a fantasy species created by me.
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