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* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Averted. None of the animals on the planet have more than 16 teeth, 4 incisors and 12 molars, due to the number the original founding hamsters had. However, the leviahams and rattiles simulate this by having multiple sharp points on their molar caps and the rattiles will even regularly shed their caps to grow new ones.
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* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Averted. None of the animals on the planet have more than 16 teeth, teeth (consisting of 4 incisors and 12 molars, due to molars) because that was the number the original founding hamsters had. However, the leviahams and rattiles simulate this by having multiple sharp points on their molar caps and the rattiles will even regularly shed their caps to grow new ones.
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Originally based on [[https://tribbetherium.tumblr.com/post/639474188428722176/part-6-finale-the-final-epoch-of-the-planets a series of crude black-and-white sketches originating from 2017]], the project has since recieved a major overhaul and remaking, filled with simple but colorful artwork and written commentary. The project is currently in progress, and can be viewed on Tribbetherium's Reddit [[https://www.reddit.com/user/Tribbetherium here]] and on their Tumblr [[https://tribbetherium.tumblr.com/post/640506908600631296/hamsters-paradise-has-recieved-such-a-great here.]] (However, due to apparent technical difficulties it is now only active on Tumblr.)
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Originally based on [[https://tribbetherium.tumblr.com/post/639474188428722176/part-6-finale-the-final-epoch-of-the-planets a series of crude black-and-white sketches originating from 2017]], the project has since recieved received a major overhaul and remaking, filled with simple but colorful artwork and written commentary. The project is currently in progress, and can be viewed on Tribbetherium's Reddit [[https://www.reddit.com/user/Tribbetherium here]] and on their Tumblr [[https://tribbetherium.tumblr.com/post/640506908600631296/hamsters-paradise-has-recieved-such-a-great here.]] (However, due to apparent technical difficulties it is now only active on Tumblr.)
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[https://www.tumblr.com/tribbetherium/737168356371841024/welcome-to-world-newpup-to-you-i-am-kind-but This one-shot]] depicts the fearsome BigBad Ashfall as a newborn pup, being nursed and tended to by his mother.
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* UsedToBeASweetKid: [[https://www.tumblr.com/tribbetherium/737168356371841024/welcome-to-world-newpup-to-you-i-am-kind-but Ashfall,]] the BigBad of the Calliducyon saga, was once but a small, frail and innocent pup, but, implied to be through his mother's fanatic guidance, grew into the fearsome warlord that led the Outlanders into battle.
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** Basal molrocks are equivalents of naked mole rats, but the derived surface dwellers fill lizard niches. The biggest species, the giant armadile, is basically the rodent version of a Komodo Dragon. The descendants of these surface molrocks evolve into the even more lizard-like rattiles, which fill niches similar to geckos, iguanas, skinks, chameleons and water monitors. The basal shingles are similar to tortoises as large, armored herbivores while the varat is even more like a komodo dragon that the giant armadile.
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** Basal molrocks are equivalents of naked mole rats, but the derived surface dwellers fill lizard niches. The biggest species, the giant armadile, is basically the rodent version of a Komodo Dragon. The descendants of these surface molrocks evolve into the even more lizard-like rattiles, which fill niches similar to geckos, iguanas, skinks, chameleons and water monitors. The basal shingles are similar to tortoises as large, armored herbivores while the varat is even more like a komodo dragon that than the giant armadile.
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* FluffyTheTerrible: Pi-pipipupu, the murderous harmster warlord, and "Berry-Eyes Snow Clump", the deadly, cannibalistic albino Frazetta.
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** Pi-pipipupu, the murderous harmster warlord, and "Berry-Eyes Snow Clump", the deadly, cannibalistic albino Frazetta.
** Pi-pipipupu, the murderous harmster warlord, and "Berry-Eyes Snow Clump", the deadly, cannibalistic albino Frazetta.
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** It is noted that podotheres have acquired more neck vertebrae. This is a phenomenon extremely rare in mammals (which nearly all have seven neck vertebrae) [[https://evodevojournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/2041-9139-2-11 due to genetic modules]], which individuals born with an atypical number of neck vertebrae dying horribly. The narration does notice that this is a heritage from their more sloth-like ancestors - sloths being among the few mammals that managed to pull this off - but the reason sloths have many neck vertebrae is because they have slow metabolisms and low cancer rates. Many podotheres have since become highly active. The text does explain that the extra vertebrae are simply repurposed thoracic vertebrae, an exaggeration of how the giraffe's flexible first thoracic vertebra functions much like an eighth neck vertebra, making it less of a developmental aberration. It's also mentioned that they have a specialized immune system that makes them resistant to certain cancers.
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** It is noted that podotheres have acquired more neck vertebrae. This is a phenomenon extremely rare in mammals (which nearly all have seven neck vertebrae) [[https://evodevojournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/2041-9139-2-11 due to genetic modules]], which leads to individuals born with an atypical number of neck vertebrae dying horribly. The narration does notice that this is a heritage from their more sloth-like ancestors - sloths being among the few mammals that managed to pull this off - but the reason sloths have many neck vertebrae is because they have slow metabolisms and low cancer rates. Many podotheres have since become highly active. The text does explain that the extra vertebrae are simply repurposed thoracic vertebrae, an exaggeration of how the giraffe's flexible first thoracic vertebra functions much like an eighth neck vertebra, making it less of a developmental aberration. It's also mentioned that they have a specialized immune system that makes them resistant to certain cancers.
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* AdaptationalNameChange: Some names were changed from the original 2017 post, such as the cricetaceans originally being called "hwhels", the podotheres originally being called "hamstheropods", and the rattiles originally being called [[SpellMyNameWithAnS "ratptiles".]]
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* AdaptationalNameChange: Some names were changed from the original 2017 post, such as the cricetaceans originally being called "hwhels", the podotheres originally being called "hamstheropods", and the rattiles originally being called [[SpellMyNameWithAnS "ratptiles".]]
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** On Earth, the desert locust is regarded as a plague thanks to its ability to decimate crops and are typically associated with famine. However, on HP-02017, the drysanders regard swarms of sand cricklings (beetle analogues to the desert locust) as a blessing and associate them with abundance as they feed on the cricklings themselves and even have a story about a swarm insuring their survival in a time of hardship.
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* LowTechSpears: This is Zigzagged in how it is used. Spears as a whole are actually used as an ''indicator'' of intelligence and advancement as any animal that uses them is noted to be exceptionally cunning, but amongst the sapient species, how the spears are crafted are used to show how advanced they are. With the first sophont species, the harmsters, the savannah and mountain harmsters use simple spears made by chewing a point into a piece of wood or animal bone, whereas the tundra harmsters are able to craft much more complex weaponry, including more advanced spears made with flint or ivory. This greater level of advancement allows the tundra harmsters to conquer and destroy their relatives.
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* FirstContactFauxPas: Subverted with the northhounds when the southhound refugees first encounter them. At first, they even doubt their sapience, assuming they are another non-sapient species only mimicking voices (as some rattiles and zingos do) but eventually come to recognize them as fellow beings and accept them, teaching them their language.
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** The Outlanders are a genetic hybrid of the various southhound subspecies, with their leader, Ashfall, being a hybrid of a white-eye (an entirely separate southhound species) and an Outlander. Their skills are also a combination of the other groups, forcing the other tribes to unite when the Outlanders antagonize them all.
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* JustSoStory: A frequent theme among the calliducyons.
** Many instances and one-shots focus on both natural phenomena that occur in their world, and how calliducyon culture interprets it, such as a claw-shaped fruit being told in their folklore as being the claws of a monster that descended from the sun and was slain by the spirits of nature, or animals born with the malformation of cyclopia due to teratogenic plants being failed incarnations of a one-eyed demon imprisoned in the plant itself.
** The plainmanes revere lightning as a sacred force, as it causes brushfires that provide them with the fire that keeps them warm and protects them. As such, fulgurites (rock formations that are in essence solidified paths of lightning) are considered holy and sacred items to them.
** In a loose example of DramaticIrony, a folktale states the origin of shroomors as having once been an evil beast that was "stripped of its soul" and reduced to shapeless living flesh that still hungers in its current state. While entirely coincidental, this heavily echoes the shroomor's true origins, as a free-living tumor derived from, and responsible for, the extinction of the Harmsters 40 million years prior in the Glaciocene.
** Many instances and one-shots focus on both natural phenomena that occur in their world, and how calliducyon culture interprets it, such as a claw-shaped fruit being told in their folklore as being the claws of a monster that descended from the sun and was slain by the spirits of nature, or animals born with the malformation of cyclopia due to teratogenic plants being failed incarnations of a one-eyed demon imprisoned in the plant itself.
** The plainmanes revere lightning as a sacred force, as it causes brushfires that provide them with the fire that keeps them warm and protects them. As such, fulgurites (rock formations that are in essence solidified paths of lightning) are considered holy and sacred items to them.
** In a loose example of DramaticIrony, a folktale states the origin of shroomors as having once been an evil beast that was "stripped of its soul" and reduced to shapeless living flesh that still hungers in its current state. While entirely coincidental, this heavily echoes the shroomor's true origins, as a free-living tumor derived from, and responsible for, the extinction of the Harmsters 40 million years prior in the Glaciocene.
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* FlowerMouth
** The lipgrips are a family of predatory rhinocheirid that has enlarged their facial lobes as a way of grabbing onto the necks of prey for a lethal bite. These lobes can open up to expose their mouth, and some species have bright colors and patterns on the inside of these lobes as a means of displaying to rivals and mates without compromising their camouflage.
** The mandibled tendriltooth is a carnivorous daggoth that has repurposed six of their facial tentacles into lobes similar to the lipgrips, and for the same reason. A major difference however, is that these lobes also have teeth-like spikes lining them for even better damage.
** The lipgrips are a family of predatory rhinocheirid that has enlarged their facial lobes as a way of grabbing onto the necks of prey for a lethal bite. These lobes can open up to expose their mouth, and some species have bright colors and patterns on the inside of these lobes as a means of displaying to rivals and mates without compromising their camouflage.
** The mandibled tendriltooth is a carnivorous daggoth that has repurposed six of their facial tentacles into lobes similar to the lipgrips, and for the same reason. A major difference however, is that these lobes also have teeth-like spikes lining them for even better damage.
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* ShownTheirWork: In an art one-shot depicting the [[https://tribbetherium.tumblr.com/post/733764350157930496/like-something-out-of-the-fear-stories-told-by stillbirth]] of a horn-herder calf with cyclopia, the dead calf is shown to have foal slippers, a type of rubbery tissue present on the feet of newborn ungulates that prevent them from injuring their mothers' uterus with their sharp hooves.
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* NormalFishInATinyPond: A variation. The art one-shot depicting the golden dune stellasnoot points out that its hairless skin, fleshy lobed snout, and enlarged and highly mobile digits make it a very bizarre animal by the standards of the surface fauna. However, it also states that its downright tame when compared to its far more derived, cave-dwelling molrock relatives, who don't even look like earthly animals anymore.
