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This thing was an attempt to design a species to explore the evolution of fungus into animal-like ambulatory species. You wouldn't know it to look at him but this guy but he can jump like a bastard and is incredibly tough, due to a chitinous skeletal structure infiltrating all of his musculature. The planet he evolved on has long periods (100 millenia) of drought, followed by long periods of flood. this cycle resulted in this species going back to the ocean and back onto land. The rear limbs fused en route to the bioform verging on aquatic. This form is near the end of a dry cycle when this guy has moved back to fully terrestrial. the back legs fused nearlt completely, giving the single back limb a three lobed hoof, instead of two hooves with two lobes.

Being primarily fungal, this creature eats by literally laying down and spreading out as far as possible and then growing mycelia (root-like structures) into the decaying matter while the creature goes into a hibernation state. Once feeding is done, the creature resumes normal function.

The species only has a mouth for the purpose of vocalization. The vocalizations are helpful in the social interactions of these creatures. Their reproductive process is a hybrid of spores and sexual reproduction. Spores can only take root and germinate on the bodies of other members of their species. 
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Well, He looks happy at least. :)