Cystgrotte

The Cystgrotte (Sist-grow-t), or blind cave rats, are rodents that live in great caves in Hasseran and Sundast, going as far down as the underdrey. The have no fur except for very few skin hairs and their long whiskers. Their skin has no pigment and is almost transparent. The Cystgrotte are also eyeless.  Years of living in the dark has sunken their eyes under their skin, enhancing their other senses.  Their most distinguishing feature are their long tails, almost twice their body length. These bony tails are extremely muscular but very light and they end in a glowing blue lure which is constantly illuminated.  
These creatures live in small colonies and there may be as many as four different colonies in one mountain. They are extremely territorial and will kill anything that does not contain their kin's scent. 
Cystgrottes are a very varied species. They have a lifespan of up-to twenty years and do not stop growing until they reach about five feet in height and eight feet long. Very few will reach this size because until about ten years of age they are very vulnerable to injury, illness, cold, predators and other dangers in their cave homes such as  rival colonies, cave ins, underground streams.
The diet of a Cystgrotte is a complex one. They are able to consume rocks and soil because of their layers upon layers of flat grinding molars and their second stomach, which produces an acid able to melt the rocks into raw nutrients. For living organisms, they are raw carnivores and will eat anything from bugs and bats to aershaa and humans to rival colonies. They hunt by using their tails as lures by the entrances of caves and leading their prey into the cave where they will strike. If no other food is available, it is common for these rats to turn to cannibalism within their own colonies. 
The Cystgrotte are under debate about whether they are mammals or not. They are warm blooded and have hair but they lay eggs and do not possess a mammary gland. A female lays the eggs in a moist hole in the ground and a male will spawn them and bury them. After three weeks, the babies will hatch and eat their way to the surface. In that time, the parents must set out food for their babies or else the newborns will consume eachother and dwindle their numbers. After about a month of being fed by their parents, these creatures begin to breed. 
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