Editing Primordial Evolution Game/East Continent (section)

==Boomer Evolution==
[[Image:Boomerchart.png|thumb|center|Boomer Evolution]]

====Eyespot Boomer====
[[Image:Eyespotboom.png|thumb|upright|left|top|100px|
<br />'''Eyespot Boomer'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Boomer
<br />-> Crawling Boomer
<br />-> Coastal Boomer
<br />-> Walking Boomer]]
Boomers developed two large light-sensitive patches on their faces. Like their ancestors, these Boomers secrete a thick slime which aids in dragging their large, yet light abdomen. The red patches on the head of this creature are luminescent organs, which it flashes as a warning to predators to leave it alone.




====Crawling Boomer====
[[Image:Crawlingboomer.png|thumb|upright|right|top|100px|
<br />'''Crawling Boomer'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Eyespot Boomer
<br />-> Climbing Boomer]]
The crawling boomers developed stronger feet, with their fingers developing into almost claw-like digits. This allowed them to dig in deeper to the ground and gain purchase on a larger variety of terrain, as well as cling to surfaces better.

====Climbing Boomer====
[[Image:Climbingboomer.png|thumb|upright|left|top|100px|
<br />'''Climbing Boomer'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Crawling Boomer]]
The Climbing Boomers have specialized in living in the vast canopies of the azrach forests that cover the eastern coastline and swamps.
Their tentacles are longer and stronger, and they move through the canopy by swinging themselves from one branch to another. Over time, they gained elaborate luminescent displays and sticky surfaces on their palms.
They mostly eat the fruits and bark of the azrach trees. 

====Coastal Boomer====
[[Image:Coastalboomer.png|thumb|upright|right|top|100px|
<br />'''Coastal Boomer'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Eyespot Boomer]]
The front legs of boomers living on the southern coast became webbed in order to swim back to shore whenever they were swept out to sea. They also developed transparent eyelids.

====Walking Boomer====
[[Image:Walking Boomer.png|thumb|upright|left|top|100px|
<br />'''Walking Boomer'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Eyespot Boomer
<br />-> Mountain Boomer
<br />-> Crag Boomer
<br />-> Plains Boomer
<br />-> Frilla Boomer
<br />-> Tundra Boomer
<br />-> Swamp Boomer]]
Over time, the boomers living near the plains developed stronger tentacles, which allow them to walk, instead of simply crawling on the ground.
These boomers live in small herds, using the noxious gases their former slime glands adapted to excrete for common protection. 




====Mountain Boomer====
[[Image:Mountainboomer.PNG|thumb|upright|right|top|100px|
<br />'''Mountain Boomer'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Walking Boomer
<br />-> Cave Boomer
<br />-> Green Boomer]]
Due to flooding for parts of the year, some boomers began to seek higher ground. Eventually they became the mountain boomers, who have hard clawed hoof like feet which help them to move in the rockier environment.

Volcanic activity caused a split in the mountain boomer species. Their population suffered heavily from the eruptions, and most of the survivors had to migrate to south, away from the most active volcanoes. These mountain hoppas were few and far between, they live in small herds that wandered the southern mountains in search of food.



====Cave Boomer====
[[Image:Cave Boomer.png|thumb|upright|left|top|100px|
<br />'''Cave Boomer'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Mountain Boomer]]
The Mountain Boomers which stayed in the northern mountains sought safety in caves and nooks that shielded them against the volcanic activity. Over time, these cave boomers became reclusive species, usually only living by themselves or in small family groups. Their skin became thicker and developed hard scale like plates that protected the creatures against the irritating ash that was everywhere. The plant life in the mountains was too scarce to get rid of the nutrient rich material very fast. Without their now thicker skin, the ash would smear and cause infections in the sensitive skin of the boomers. 

====Green Boomer====
[[Image:Green Boomer.png|thumb|upright|right|top|100px|
<br />'''Green Boomer'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Mountain Boomer]]
Green Boomers are an herbivore found in the rainforests extending from the southern end of the mountains onto the archipelago. They live in small groups of between 4-15 members. Their diet consists of underbrush and fallen or low-growing fruit. The tips of their tentacles are covered with numerous section cups, making then effective manipulators.


====Crag Boomer====
[[Image:Other mountain boomer.png|thumb|upright|left|top|100px|
<br />'''Crag Boomer'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Walking Boomer
<br />-> Red Boomer]]
Just like the mountain Boomers, these too migrated to the mountains to escape the floods. Rather than hoofed feet, they developed stronger digits to grip and climb the uneasy surfaces.

====Red Boomer====
[[Image:Red boomer.png|thumb|upright|right|top|100px|
<br />'''Red Boomer'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Boomer
<br />-> Bagr
<br />-> Willo Boomer]]
Red Boomers a carnivorous species. They lost their beak in favor of a fanged maw.
Their skin is covered in armored plates, which most likely formed as protection from falling rock in the geologically active region in which they live.

====Bagr====
[[Image:Bagr.png|thumb|upright|left|top|100px|
<br />'''Bagr'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Red Boomer]]

Bagrs are social predators living in the northern mountains. They form large packs ruled by the strongest male. This male doesn't necessarily get all of the mates. He is simply at the top of the pecking order for feeding and mating. From their diet, their armor contains numerous metal-based compounds, making it strong and good at resisting heat. As part of both hunting and defense, they spray a highly reactive mix of chemicals from their mouths which burn intensely when mixed.

====Willo Boomer====
[[Image:Willoboomer.PNG|thumb|upright|right|top|100px|
<br />'''Willo Boomer'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Red Boomer]]

The Willo Boomer is a nocturnal animal that lives in the caves of the southern mountains. It only leaves its home in the caves at night after the sun has set. The blood of the Willo Boomers contains a luninescent chemical. The bluish glow can be seen in the night when it is looking for something to eat. Normally it eats the moss growing inside of the caves. When it is time to mate, however, it tends to seek out more nutritious food.
The Boomer is able to spray a foul smelling, and luminescent fluid from its mouth as surprisingly high pressure in defense.


====Running Boomer====
[[Image:Running boomer.png|thumb|upright|left|top|100px|
<br />'''Running Boomer'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Walking Boomer
<br />-> Long-Legged Boomer
<br />-> Jungle Boomer]]
Wild fires were devastating for boomers, which are incredibly vulnerable to fire, as the gases their bodies contain are quite flammable.
The only ones who survived these fires were the ones with longest and the fastest legs.
Over time, these fast boomers became the dominant boomer variety on the plains.

Gotta go fast!

====Long-Legged Boomer====
[[Image:Longlegboomer.png|thumb|upright|right|top|100px|
<br />'''Long-Legged Boomer'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Running Boomer
<br />-> Stilt Boomer]]
This species of boomer has long legs which allow it to keep it's gas filled body far away from the flames of frequent grass fires. They can skitter over avarage wildfires, due to their thicker skin on their legs.
They have also adapted to feed on charred plants, which other herbivores tend to ignore. 

<span style="color:#008000">>implying fires can touch me.</span>

====Stilt Boomer====
[[Image:Stilt boomer.png|thumb|upright|left|top|100px|
<br />'''Stilt Boomer'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Long-Legged Boomer]]

Stilt Boomers are predatory ambushers which hunt during the night. They use the bioluminiscent tips at the ends of their sensory tentacles to emulate the movements of Lightbutt Ngung, which attracts smaller creatures such as Joords to them. Their dark coloration and tall posture allow them to stay unnoticed by the approaching creature fixated on the pretty dancing lights indicating potential snack.
When the prey is close enough, the stilt boomer activates it's head lamps, which can easily blind and shock the prey for a moment. The boomers use this moment to lunge at their prey, ripping them apart with their long and sharp fangs. In case the prey tries to flee or fight back, the muscular legs of the stilt boomers allow it to easily catch and pummel the prey to death.

The stilt boomers less social than their ancestors, though they often stay within the seeing distance of each other, using their bioluminiscence to communicate.
They inhabit a number of biomes. The coast, southern marshes, ashlands and frilla forests are all quite suitable habitats for them.

<span style="color:#008000">>implying fires can touch me either.</span>

====Jungle Boomers====
[[Image:Jungle Boomer.png|thumb|upright|right|top|100px|
<br />'''Jungle Boomer'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Running Boomer]]
Smaller than Green Boomers, Jungle Boomers live in the canopy of the forest canopy. Their diet consists of fruit and Tapascu leaves. Their long, dextrous legs make it easy for them to jump and run swiftly along the tops of the trees.

====Frilla Boomer====
[[Image:Frilla boomer.PNG|thumb|upright|left|top|100px|
<br />'''Frilla Boomer'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Walking Boomer
<br />-> Sap Boomer
<br />-> Gliding Boomer]]

In order to escape seasonal floods, these Boomers began to climb up the surfaces of the massive Frilla trees. They developed gecko like paws which allowed them to do so with ease. They also became much smaller.


====Sap Boomer====
[[Image:Sap boomer.png|thumb|upright|right|top|100px|
<br />'''Sap Boomer'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Boomer]]
The sap boomer has a strong, chisel-like beak. They use it to break off layers of Frilla bark and reach the layer of phloem so that they may drink the sap carried within.
Their skin has taken on a pigment similar to that of the bark, so they may feed uninterrupted by predators.

====Gliding Boomer====
[[Image:Gliding Boomer.png|thumb|upright|left|top|100px|
<br />'''Gliding Boomer'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Frilla Boomer]]
Gliding boomers are omnivorous animals which live in the Frilla forest. Their diet mainly consists of bugs and vegetation. Their namesake comes from their ability to glide from tree to tree. While gliding, they often leave their beakless mouths open in order to catch swarms of Ngungs. While gliding, they can release a stream of volatile chemicals which ignite and provide a speed boost. 


====Swamp Boomer====
[[Image:Swamp boomer.png|thumb|upright|right|top|100px|
<br />'''Swamp Boomer'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Walking Boomer
<br />-> Predatory Boomer]]
The legs of Walking Boomers which moved into the swamps became longer to traverse the watery terrain. Their skin also became darker to blend in with the environment.

As the the terrain of the swamps became more difficult from the dense Azrach growth, the boomers developed claws on their toes in order to better grip to the roots and trunks of the trees which they walked along.

====Predatory Boomer====
[[Image:Predboomer.png|thumb|upright|left|top|100px|
<br />'''Predatory Boomer'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />Progenitor: Swamp Boomer]]

In the harsh struggle of survival in the dark and damp central marshes, a new predatory splinter species of the swamp boomers emerges.
These boomers have adapted to the low light conditions of the central marshes, by developing Infrared sensitive eyes, which allow them to better track suitable prey. Unfortunately, these new eyes are vulnerable to direct sunlight, which confines these species to the perpertual darkness of the central marsh, and forces them to move in the other parts of the great azrach forest during the night.

These carnivorous boomers hunt smaller critters, their swamp boomer bretheren, govinks and keerbs. Their strong and shear-like beak allow them to make short work out of their prey.
The predatory boomers hunt by outmanouvering their prey, using the speed and agility that all the swamp boomers posses to get the kill. 

====Tundra Boomer====
[[Image:Tundraboomer.png|thumb|upright|right|top|100px|
<br />'''Tundra Boomer'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Walking Boomer
<br />-> Arctic Boomer]]
The tundra boomers are bigger and stockier than their cousins, and they move in great herds for mutual protection. They have lost their gas discharge defense, as their bodies need to focus on keeping the creature warm. They've begun to develop an organ attached to their lungs and float sacs which burns small amounts of their internal methane supply for heat.
The sensory hairs of their toes have also started to spread to the rest of their legs, as they help in retaining heat.

The tundra boomers mostly feed on tubers and other plant material found in the north during the summer. They migrate south during the winter, as even they can't stand the cold arctic winter, despite their adaptations.

They spend the winter on the southern side of the riverside plains of this continent. When summer comes, the swim across the river and return to the north and begin once again to feast on the vindra tubers of the tundra.
The walking boomers give birth to more developed young, who don't float away from the herd, like they do in most hoppa an boomer species. They usually breed during spring, and give birth during summer, so that the young can quickly get fat on the abundant plant life of the tundra. 

====Arctic Boomer====
[[Image:Arcticboomer.png|thumb|upright|left|top|100px|
<br />'''Arctic Boomer (Winter Coat)'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Tundra Boomer
<br />-> Wooly Boomer]]
Volcanic eruptions resulted in disrupting the migration cycle of the tundra boomers.
They could not cross the muddy river, and thus they were forced to endure the cold winter of the north. Many of them died, and the ones who survived were hairiest of them all.
Within relatively few generations, the boomers became extremely hairy. These hairs grow before winter, and they trap the internal heat of the boomer very efficiently, allowing these creatures to survive the harsh arctic winter.
They no longer migrate back to the south. They do come closer to the river during the winter, but they do not cross it anymore. 


====Wooly Boomer====
[[Image:Wooly Boomers.png|thumb|upright|right|top|100px|
<br />'''Wooly Boomer'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Arctic Boomer]]
Wooly Boomers are massive creatures which live in the cold north year-round, traveling in small herds. Their thick, shaggy fur is very effective in holding in the heat which the creatures produce from their methane burning. The diet of these boomers is made up of grasses and roots which they dig up using the tusks to either side of their beak.
One major distinction between Wooly Boomers and all other species is that these have skeleton make entirely of actual bone rather than mostly cartilage.