04-16-2013, 12:22 AM
This is Day One
This creature is a(n): Tapitolaries rugosa (Common name: Pygmy wood creep)
This is its story: Tapitolaries rugosa is a reclusive creature which has recently seen a resurgence in numbers. Despite this fortunate turn-around in population size, researchers still continue to struggle in finding live specimens for their work. To date, our understanding of the Pygmy wood creep is that they are pseudo nocturnal, preferring to do the majority of their activity in the early hours of the morning. They are omnivorous with a stronger leaning toward carnivorous habits and prey most often upon small forest insects. Their hunting method has been observed, albeit by pure chance, when Dr. H. J. Richards was doing field work in on of the central islands. It was, as to be expected, in the early hours of the morning when a solitary wood creep dropped from one of the high forest branches on a fiber of it's own creation (produced by a gland on the stomach much like a spider's spinneret on it's back end.) and landed on his cheek to pluck off a mosquito. Dr. Richards also reported the wood creep's apparent fascination with human hair as after the mosquito was removed the specimen spent several minutes stroking the top of the doctor's head. "It is no wonder why such a creature has the name that it does." He said, shaking slightly and pushing his pith helmet further onto his head.
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