Editing Parting of the Ways (Fortune: Evolution Game) (section)

===Dwarf Chomper===

The smallest of the Chomper species, the Dwarf Chomper is a herbivorous terrestrial repto-mammal. An off-shoot of the bull chomper, they have grown very different to their cousins, growing to about the size of a domestic sheep.

They subsist on a fairly specialized diet, consuming varieties of bluegrass almost exclusively. Their digestive system is host to a variety of beneficial bacteria, giving them something of a gut. They generally attempt to eat every part of the bluegrass, from the nutritious bulbs at the top, to the roots, using their forelimbs and snout to dig them out. A favourite meal of the dwarf chomper is the Fruit-bearing Bluegrass, which they are a chief pollinator of. They seek out the plant for it's sweet-smelling berries, and when they stick their face in the plant's 'goblet' to eat the berries, the pollen on the plant sticks to their wrinkles, eventually transferring to the next plant the chomper finds.

Their snout has shrunk over time, becoming extremely flat, and their eyes shrunk to be less sensitive to damage while digging, resulting in them having a fairly wrinkled, squished face. They possess proto-hooves, forming a small flat sole on their hindlimbs, and a larger hoof on their forelimbs, however, they still maintain the remainders of their fingers, which they use to help in digging.

They travel in large herds for protection, but there is little structure to them - dwarf chomper herds split and join up at a whim, the only constant being younger chompers following their mothers until they can support themselves. As they grew smaller, with a more specialized diet, their lifespan also decreased to an average of 12 years. On the other hand, they reach sexual maturity more quickly and propagate more frequently. With the largely unstructured herds, breeding tends to be indiscriminate, with haphazard sexual selection. Generally the more powerful specimen which survive for longer will simply have more offspring. Their eggs require little time to incubate before hatching, supporting their somewhat nomadic lifestyle.