Scaly armored plates make up the carapace of Kivik. They eat birds' eggs, and likely turtle eggs too, though travelers are more enamored by the little armored mammals scampering up trees like squirrels, yet being so clearly not squirrels. The bird nests they steal eggs from belong to brightly colored inhabitants, rainbow birds that feed on leaf beetles on the very same trees, meaning Kivik has to be extremely sneaky to steal the eggs.
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The leaf beetles themselves are also camouflaged, unlike their avian predators. They feed on leaves, as their name implies. They begin their lives as eggs laid within the leaf-veins, chewing their way through the photosynthesizing flesh of the leaf itself until they feed themselves fat enough to pupate. In adulthood they fly off to another branch, often on the same tree they were born on.
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Another animal found on this island, another mammal but one far larger than the Kivik, is Alderbam. Alderbam looks like an ox, and feeds on grasses and flowers. Thus it requires different ecosystems than the birds and beetles, and humanity has been a boon to Alderbam populations, with all our deforestation and manicured laws. Alderbams are viewed as pests on these lawns, not unlike rabbits, although I prefer to view both as natural lawnmowers.
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Fae fly about, attracted the attention and adoration of human visitors, moreso than the less obviously magical wildlife do. Everyone loves fairies, after all, until they steal your children (and sometimes even then, if the original children were particularly misbehaved.) They glow in the dark like fireflies, yet can chirp like birds and communicate in human language, though woe befalls any who tries to negotiate with one.
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