Bonjour monsieur, mademoiselle or madame! Good morning, afternoon, night or evening! Bring forth the glitches and bugs! This is a currently FINISHED school project! If you're looking for nicety, well this is an inquiry project focusing on animals and plants, and their adaptations. Our topic overall covered adaptations and biomes. We designed an animal, and mine happened to be a luxpard, a small leopard sort of creature. Don't pay much attention to this!
LUXPARD Scientific name: pardus varietates vestibulum arcu ('spotlight leopard' in Latin) The luxpard is an animal that closely resembles a leopard that resides in the tropical rainforest. Luxpards are very social animals, and live in groups (satires) of at least 15 and up to 30. In a satire, there are at least 7 females and 8 males (including a dominant one), who do the hunting. Females are pregnant for only 60 - 75 days. They give birth to 1 - 5 luxpards, who drink their mother's milk until 3 months old, when they start eating meat. They only have 1 predator - the anaconda. They have a strict diet on okapi and gorillas, and the males older than 15 months in the satire hunt together to bring down their prey, which is much bigger than themselves. They can be up to 1m in length, 50cm in height and 14kg in weight. Luxpards have adapted to the dark, humid rainforest, and their adaptations are quite unique and practical. Their well-known spots help them camouflage in between trees and bushes. Luxpards' spots, however, can glow in the dark to attract prey, with the owner being able to turn on and off the spots. Their tail is pretty much the only part of their body which isn't covered with spots. This is so that they can have a backup plan of attracting prey. They hide behind a bush and expose their tail, waving it around. Young luxpards that are learning to hunt usually use this method. They have lightweight, thin sandy brown fur, which is water and sweat resistant. They also have canine teeth which are loaded with deadly poison. The poison is equivalent to venom from a king cobra and a tiger snake. They help to tear the prey apart and give the killing blow to the neck. The long, sheatheable claws are for hunting, fighting and climbing. Luxpards spend most of their day in tree branches relaxing, and only hunt and fight when necessary. They are mainly passive animals unless provoked. Fighting between satires is common, but how common depends on the number of satires in the rainforest. The 2 dominant males fight until one is dead or severely injured. If the loser is still alive, he steps down as a dominant male and his satire joins the winner's.
