Arrow-tongued frog and more

Here's some odd animals from Scar Isle, as seen in the New World of Kong.

## Sampler

* Arrow-tongue frog

The arrow-tongued frog is a species of 5-6-inch long ground-dwelling frog, descended from Gastric-brooding frogs that escaped extinction. Its name Rana Aciaglossus means "arrow-tongued frog", for its pointed tip of its sticky tongue to catch insects, since it lives by riding huge dinosaurs to rid of pesky bugs.

Geckoides [Gecko-like], or Geckooides, is a small gecko-type lizard with primitive eyelids, known to eat insects, lives alongside the glimmer gecko (a true gecko), and is native to Scar Isle rain-forests.

Gomphognathus [bolt-jaw] is a mid-sized hadrosaur descendant of Scar Island, known for its impressive teeth and sheer tail. up to 11-13 feet long, this ornithopod is half the weight of an African elephant, its tusks and claws are used to clip off tree branches, nip off leaves, sift for water plants, and pick fruit off. After it picks off plants, it chews them up with its batteries of back teeth before gulping its food down.

Predators include the Tyrant-dinosaur-mimic.

Rose-bud mantis [Mantis floravenator] is a Scar Isle species of praying mantis that resembles the Manipulator [a cockroach], up to 14-15 inches long. Its diet consists of smaller insects and spiders, its camouflage helps in protection from predatory birds and hides it from its prey.

## Phobosuchus

Phobosuchus [horrible crocodile] is a eusuchian crocodilian from Scar Isle, evolved from Deinosuchus. Not fussy about its diet, this huge 12-13 meter long crocodile eats any food that it can find: big fish, large turtles, dinosaurs [like hadrosaurs, small theropods], birds, pterosaurs and carrion.

Phobosuchus-Scar Isle (Phobosuchus horridusops "bristling-faced horror-crocodile")

Size: 12-13 meters long.

Weight: 5 tons.

Diet: Feeds mainly by ambushing dinosaurs that come to drink, will also eat large fish, carrion, turtles, pterosaurs and other prey.

Facts: The rivers and estuaries of Scar Island play host to one of the most terrifying crocodiles now living. Phobosuchus is so formidably armed that it frequently catches and devours large dinosaurs, turtles, fish and other prey. Expeditions to the island have remarked upon seeing these huge crocs, but such puny prey as a human is generally overlooked by adult Phobosuchus. The Kongs and D-rexes generally avoid well-traversed waterways to avoid being killed or eaten by these supreme crocodilians. Old males become particularly large, and often spend so much time in the water that they almost will become encrusted with extensive growths of algae and even clams. Luckily, birds and certain species of lizards will pick the clams and algae, just like the symbiotic Egyptian plover and the Nile crocodiles' relationship.

## Parrot-o-dile

The forest floors of the island are often strewn with many kinds of hard tree nuts, which are only fed upon by certain animals such as the Parrot-o-dile. This squawking Shuvosaurid Curotarsan has evolved a heavy beak for cracking nuts, and dexterous hands for manipulating its food. Parrodiles only reach about 75 centimetres long and are most common in lowland rainforests or the scrubby margins of the savannah.