Tyuke the Lambeosaurus

## Tyuke

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"**Sticks that are alone snap like twigs, but sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. So in other words, together there's strength in numbers.**"
—Tyuke
"**How are you tired when I'm the one doing all the walking?**"
—Tyuke to Alakai when he complains about traveling, even though he usually just perches on Tyuke's back most of the time
"**ya see, when picking out a gift, it cant just be any olé rock, it has to be THE rock.**"
—Tyuke explaining to Alakai while looking for rocks, logs and stones, practicing courtship behaviors like collecting a courting gift

**Tyuke the Lambeosaurus** is an original character designed by Frostybites16. Tyuke resides in the Dinosentria universe.

Tyuke is a subadult Lambeosaurus doing his best to survive the harsh island of Dinosentria

## Biography

It all started with a soon-to-be family of lambeosaurus. Tyuke was just an egg, and his Mother was watching over him and his unborn siblings while his Father was taking his turn to forage for food. While his mom was sitting at the nest, a gorgosaurus ambushed her. she fought fiercely, and put up a damn good fight too. The majority of carnivore hunts are unsuccessful most of the time you know, but unfortunately this wasn't one of those times. With a few well placed bites to the jugular, she is killed and dragged away by the gorgosaurus. And If that wasn't bad enough, now the nest has been left unattended. a little while later, a pack of troodontid dinosaurs sniffed out the abandoned nest and starting raiding the nest, one by one scarfing down the eggs. Luckily it was at this time Tyuke's father returned, his mouth full of lush foliage for his mate and soon to hatch children, but his mate was no where to be seen and the eggs were getting eaten. The bull lambeosaurus dropped the food and quickly chased off the thieves, but when he return to the nest, he saw only one egg remained. He carefully and gently picked up the egg in his beak and decided to relocate to a safer area.

His dad took care of him for the next few years of his life, from hatchling, to juvenile, teaching him all the skills he'd need to survive. one night a terrible storm had passed through the area. Tyuke and his dad were making their way to some shelter but that's when a massive tree was uprooted from the storm and fell directly onto Tyuke's dad. Tyuke tried to help push it off but he was just a juvie and not strong enough to help him. With his dying breaths, Tyuke's dad told him to go without him, and after a lot back and fourth, Tyuke reluctantly left his passing father behind.

After his father got crushed by the tree, Tyuke spent the next month or so on his own, surviving best he could. Along the way he met an alexornis named Alakai. The two decided to stick together. Tyuke and his new friend one day stumbled across a herd consisting of parasaurolophus and corythosaurus. Tyuke and Alakai joined this herd, and have spent the past few years living with them. And with each passing year Tyuke had grown into a healthy subadult, being the only lambeosaurus in his herd.

He considers it a wise approach to be wary of most things bigger than him, and of anything unexpected. Tyuke gets along well enough with his herdmates. He makes friends easily and likes company, but is also fine to spend time just by himself. He is likely to be found a little outside the group, either observing or occupied with something unrelated to what the others are doing.

## Appearance

Tyuke is an eclectic lambeosaur with webbed feet and a keratinous antler-like expansion of the nasofrontal crest similar to that of some ungulates of today. He sports polka dots along with zebrine stripes, blue dewlaps and is covered in a coat of shaggy proto-feathers. He is mostly black and dark brown, with white spots and stripes. The dotted color is a genetic condition popularly called pseudomelanism. He has a bright blue bill as well as a splash of blue on his crest. His eyes are blue and his pupils appear in the form of horizontal, rectangular slits, similar to the eyes of goats. Like most hadrosaurs, Tyuke can move both bipedally and quadrupedally.

The color of his dewlaps will change depending on his mood. When he is excited, his dewlaps will turn blue. When he is feeling stressed, his dewlaps will turn bright red. The color shifts and changes many times throughout the day as he feels various levels of stress and relaxation. Tyuke has a large spiderweb on his crest with a lagonomegopid spider that lives in it.

## Personality

Calm, friendly, introverted, and a little shy, but tenacious.

## Abilities

* **Speed:** Tyuke is quick and nimble, able to outrun most threats
* **Strength:** As lambeosaurus, Tyuke possesses incredible strength
* **Bite:** Tyuke can give a nasty bite
* **Stomp:** He can rear up on his hind legs and stomp down hard with his front legs, forcing all of his weight on smaller enemies
* **Tail Slam:** Tyuke can use his tail to smack an attacker, either lifting his tail high and slamming it down on enemies or with a standard tail swipe.
* **Kick:** He can preform a powerful backwards kick that can knock away and stuns creatures.
* **Claw:** He can rear up on his hind legs and use his hoof-like claws to deal damage to creatures
* **Acute Vision:** The large size of hadrosaurid eye sockets and the presence of sclerotic rings in the eyes imply acute vision and diurnal habits, evidence that sight was important to these animals. He can also see at night, but just not very well.
* **Acute Hearing:** Sound is very important to many hadrosaurs and therefore their sense of hearing is strong.
* **Horn:** Tyuke can create loud hornlike calls which may be able to disorient creatures with sensitive hearing at a close range
* **Swimming:** Tyuke is an incredible swimmer and can hold his breath to dive 20 feet underwater. He usually does this to reach aquatic plants at the bottom of rivers and lakes, but its also a handy way to escape land predators. His webbed feet also aid in his swimming abilities, making him quick and agile in the water.
* **Prehensile Tongue:** Tyuke has a long purple prehensile tongue that he uses to strip leaves from branches and vines.
* **Crest:** Tyuke can use the sharp edges of his keratinous crest to lacerate an attacker. Though he usually only resorts to this a last ditch effort in self defense.

## Relationships

### Family

* **† Unnamed Father**
* **† Unnamed Mother**
* **Alakai:** Best friend, adoptive brother even

### Allies

* **Alakai**
* **Amber:** Close friend
* **Phil:** Close friend
* **Old Bucky:** Herd leader
* **Unnamed Herdmates:** Herdmates

### Enemies

* **Afval**
* **Pepper**

## Trivia

* Tyuke was created on April 4th, 2023
* Tyuke's design was inspired by this All Yesterdays inspired Lambeosaurus by Dennonyx, and I thought it was coolest lambeosaurus reconstruction ever, and wanted to use said reconstruction for a character. Other design inspirations include Tira the Zebra, Moose, and north American ruddy ducks.
* Tyuke's themes are This Too Shall Pass, Find Your Way, Resolutions, and Matisyahu - Live Like A Warrior (Jake Coco & Corey Gray Cover)
* The name "Tyuke" is an alternative spelling of the name "Tuke" which is based on a toque, a Canadian name for a type of knitted winter hat. The name also means "Blessed" in Amharic.