Cornsnips.

Sometime you can hear the plantative bleat of a voice in the corn, and other times the bleats will form a locust swarm.

With goat-like eyes, and curling horns, this is where similarity goes to die. They have digigrade feet, with cloven hooves, but they have 8 and they never seem to have more than 4 on the ground at any one time.

Basic Information

Genetics and Reproduction

Cornsnips are egg laying, pouchless, warm blooded things. They have a 2 year period of endless hunger when they hatch, before rutting and gorgeing until they die.

Each cornsnip lays their eggs in dug burrows, with between 1 to 5 three inch eggs. The eggs are fully submerged and the cornsnips young are forced to dig their way out with horn and hoof.

Dietary Needs and Habits

The stomach of the cornsnip requires the soft juicy stems of young grain, mixes with the rootstocks of older grain and fivrous plants. As such a cornsnip hoarde will lay waste to any season of planting in the endless fields.

Oftentimes cornsnips will eat small portions of stonr and dirt. Satyr ecologists think that this is to aid in digestion with the stones providing milling within the gut, but harvesters have found no such stone either in the waste, or in the guts of slain cornsnips -suggesting some manner of digestion.

Behaviour

Cornsnips work, eat and rutt as a writhing and chaotic mass of fighting territorial stomachs. Fellow cornsnips that get too close get a hoof in the side, even as predators will find a wall of angry horns when they go to attack the cornsnip mass.

With gestation of the eggs dependant on soil moisture, the lands can be clear of cornsnips for years before an explosion of tiny horns rains itself down on all of Parnathum.

Additional Information

Uses, Products & Exploitation

While their meat may be cooked, cornsnips to the major cities of Parnathum are a kill on sight species. The need for aggressive pest control is seen in their light enchanted culling staves, long handled forks to hook around the neck with a smaller, sharper blade in the centre.

Lifespan

4 years

Conservation Status

Kill it with fire.

Average Height

1m.

Average Weight

40kg