Jewel Raptors

**Jewel** **Raptors** are small critters, with a resemblance to theropod dinosaurs (from which their name comes from), though far larger and more idealized than the creatures that once existed. Unlike their larger cousins, Drake Raptors, Jewel Raptors are small with only one set of wing-arms instead of two.

## History

When the first Avio prototypes were created, there were many mistakes. However from these mistakes, there were opportunities made for the project managers to go back on the codes and create new creatures from what they had learnt. This is how Raptors were begun.

#### **Risio Influences**

With Drake Raptors being large, Risio opted to alter the overall body plan of what would become their 'Jewel' raptors. Their designs would take a more naturalistic approach, and a more market friendly one too, designing the Jewel raptors with them being intended to be pets for the most part.

Their influences came from galiforms such as chickens, phesants, peacocks, however some parrot was incorprated into it too.

#### **Uses**

Aside from being pets, and often mascots for many ARCDA bunkers and outposts, they are quick little hunters who will eat rodents, reptiles, insects, and almost anything that they can swallow without too much chewing.

## Description

**Biology**

With a smaller size and general flightlessness, most Jewel Raptors have a very terrestrial life though some still possess wing claws that aid them in climbing. The Mindaro is capable of short flights, but this is only once it has climbed high enough to glide, much like an archeopteryx or microraptor.

As they are related to Avios, they have been used in the past for colour tests for feathers as they are much quicker to breed and grow. It is thought in some circles that using the colour traits and feather designs and textures from these little test Jewels has unintended effects on the Avios they are used in such as the sharpening of their teeth and

#### **Senses**

Raptors have acute vision, able to see in low light in some subspecies.

## Behaviour

Jewel Raptors are very much like parrots in their intelligence, with good cognitive learning abilities, and with the same level of affection for their longterm owners. Building up trust with a jewel raptor is very important as much like birds and parrots, they remember outcomes that result in pain very well. As they only respond to positive reinforcement, it can be difficult to train them.

## Jewel Raptor Species

### **Base and Wild Species**

The base form of the Jewel Raptors, available in every colour imaginable and can be easily bred to produce different sub varieties in the same way as pigeons can be. Easy to keep and manage, easily trainable, and good hunters of rodents. The most common colours are named Rooster, black, white, MicroHarrier, Phoenix, and Conure.

**Sirri Island Raptor**

* The Sirri island raptor is a Crow-sized raptors that have vivid colours of yellow and greens with orange and black stripes. They are described as having a "delightfully liquid twittering chirp" when they call to one another, and their chicks are a deep green-brown colour with fluffy down. They are capable of climbing with their forelimbs and feet.

### **Fancy Species**

**Royal Pheasant**

* A colourful and common sight in Asian garden homes due to their long tail feathers and more naturalistic aesthetic, the size of a pheasant but adept in hunting mice and rats.

**Paradise King**

* A tropical but somewhat fragile raptor that spends most of its day preening. Struggles with getting wet, and struggles to hunt on their own and so is often kept in aviaries for show, fed on a mixture of seeds, fruit, and pellets.

**Mindaro Macaw**

* Possibly the most intelligent of the jewel raptors, with mimicry skills. Also the most adept flyer (in that it can at least glide) and easily trainable but often temperamental and cannot be left alone to their own devices when inside.

**Naked Chicken**

* A base featherless form of the Jewel Raptor, sometimes sought after for being more "dinosaur-like" even though their bodies are not covered in scales.

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## Trivia

* *Jewel raptors* are more representative of Velociraptor and lack the additional wings of the bigger Drake Raptors.
* Jewel Raptors are more vividly coloured than their larger cousins, and often are used as Aesthetic tests for Avio colourations.

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