Forest Slider

These creatures can be seen shambling along in the pocket forests. They can sniff the air with their purple, hyperextended oral tubes. Parents take good care of their striped offspring. Between an adult and a juvenile there is a discrepancy both in size and in the number of limbs. The adult possesses only two legs and a skid, but sometimes there is a dangling, wrinkled flap of tissue where the juvenile's single hind leg is to be found. They can be easily startled by noises produced by other life forms, even those that pose no true threat. At one point the forest slider will have the "deformed" leg scraped completely off, and is unperturbed by its loss. Amazingly, there is no wound, concluding that the discarded growth had been the neotenous remains of a limb used during the creature's early life, before they gained the control of their pronged pelvic skid.