APE-20

**Item Class:** **Adynato**
**Harm Class:** **Epamundur**
**Cooperation Class:** **Epikindynos**

**Object Overview**

APE-20 is a large jellyfish-like colonial organism. Its adult form ranges in size from 45 feet wide to 100 feet wide, but the average seems to be 50 feet. Its anatomy is completely different from that of a jellyfish. APE-20 is split into distinct ramets, each of which have crucial functions for APE-20. The first ramet functions like the nervous system in animals and humans, controls APE-20's movement, and controls the other ramets within its body. The second ramet provides functions equivelant to a digestive system. It contains claw-like structures below the water's surface, which captures prey, digests it, and then spreads its nutrients all around the body for other ramets to use. APE-20 also has a ramet which allows it to travel to locations instantly. APE-20 uses its teleportation ramet as its source of locomotion.

APE-20 reproduces sexually. There are male reproductive ramets that produce sperm cells and female reproductive ramets which produce eggs. Female reproductive ramets are located below the body and release eggs directly into the ocean floor. When a male ramet sees an egg below the water, it directly releases sperm cells into the water. APE-20's sperm cells have evolved to sense the presence of the female ramet's eggs, as they can often be located in. A maximum of two sperm cells can fertilize an egg at a time, unlike in humans where only one sperm cell can fertilize an egg. APE-20 has no determined sex, but its reproductive ramets do. If prey is scarce and the egg is located in deep waters, than all reproductive ramets will be female. If prey is abundant and an egg is located in deep waters, or if prey is scarce and an egg is located in shallow waters, than half of the reproductive ramets will be female and the other half is male. Otherwise, all reproductive ramets will be male.
APE-20 seems to play with young children, but not adults. When APE-20 spots an adult human nearby, its defense system is activated, but it is unknown why. Its defense system contains yellow tentacles made from a slime-like substance. When its defense system is activated, some of the tentacles will move towards the offender, while a reddish substance on the edge of its body emerges from the bottom. When the offender is caught, the tentacles will move back towards its body while a symbiotic bacteria found inside the tentacles infects the offender's nervous system and forces the subject to move towards the reddish substance on APE-20's body. If the subject is on the substance, he/she will suffer major injuries and teleportation ramets will move him/her to the same spot as (s)he was located when (s)he was caught. The subject can then resume its normal activities. All APE-20 populations allows children to play on its body while it does not get hurt, and thus it is of great marketing potential.

**Enclosure Guidelines**

To make sure APE-20 doesn't escape its enclosure, it must be monitored for 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If left unchecked, APE-20 will teleport out of its enclosure with no way of returning it back. All monitoring must be done on security cameras to avoid injuries. For safety reasons, only children are allowed in the enclosure at all times.