![]() This pug skull demonstrates a typical pug underbite which your animal might very well have. You will see in the comparison of pug and wolf skull that the dentition of both canids is carnivore standard, in so far as there is room in the pug jaw. On the side and wondering why it is in with these two is a smug wolf, with front facing carnivora standard eyes. Next to it as exemplifying the protoherbivore with eyes on the sides of its head is a noble pygmy goat. This is not because the eyes have moved but the entire skull is squashed flat. Your animal is a brachycephalic carnivore, very much like a pug dog.Īs a visual aid here I have images of a pug dog with eyes very nearly on the sides of its head. I have heard humans called brachycephalic chimps. Brachycephalic mammals have shortened muzzle or no muzzle. My question then is this: Why would a creature meeting all the above criteria have both the teeth of a carnivore and the side-facing eyes of a herbivore?īrachycephaly is a mutation that produces a foreshortened face. May be either digitigrade or plantigrade (I have not decided), but may not be specifically unguligrade.Is naturally evolved, not having been subject to any artificial genetic engineering, although it is not from Earth or related in any way to any Earth life.Has retractable claws on both hands and feet.Has a sense of smell not significantly better than that of a human, although much better hearing.Now, I've asked questions on here before and subsequently, from not giving enough criteria, gotten unhelpful results, so I'll say a bit more about the creature I'm imagining It: Why, then, would teeth that only make sense for an exclusive meat-eater occur in the same species as eyes that only make sense for an exclusive plant-eater? The thing is, though, I don't want to just handwave it and say that I'll do it anyway because it looks good to me I will if I have to, but I would rather have a reason. ![]() So, after a long unplanned hiatus, I have started designing alien creatures again, and one image that eve before that hiatus I could not get out of my head is that of a creature which has both the pointed piercing/shearing teeth of a carnivore, and the side-facing eyes of a herbivore.
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