Editing Primordial Evolution Game/East Continent (section)

==Joord Evolution==
[[Image:Joordchart.png|thumb|center|Joord Evolution]]

====Smart Joord====
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<br />'''Smart Joord'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Joord
<br />->Aggrod
<br />->Joorod]]
Smart Joords were coastal animals which fed on sea slucks, nuros, and soft-shelled krubs. They had a larger cranium than other joords from not needing the powerful jaw and neck muscles. Their most important traits were their social behaviors and basic grasp of "cause and effect".

====Joorod====
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<br />'''Joorod'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Smart Joord]]
Joorods are another of the six sapient species native to East Continent. 

The brains of Joorods are highly developed, making them incredibly intelligent creatures. As a side effect of their brain growth however, their skulls are quite thin, making them more prone to head injury. It also makes up one of the largest parts of their energy needs.
Joorods have a purely carnivorous diet, consisting mainly of fish, bugs, and carrion. Their stomach works mainly to kill any microorganisms before passing food along to the intestines. Their efficiency at this allows them to safely eat even the most spoiled of foods. Plant matter has little nutritional value to both species of Rods since they are unable to digest it, even with cooking first. All that results is a variety of gastrointestinal troubles.
Mating for Joorods is a seasonal event, occurring in the later half of the rainy season. They generally lay a single egg per mating. 
Children sport bright blue plumage which blends in with the vegetation of East Continent, which aid in camouflage. Adults are a pale yellow, which sticks out easily amongst the blue flora.

====Aggrod====
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<br />'''Aggrod'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Smart Joord]]
Close relatives to the Joorod, Aggrods are another sapient species of Joord. They are capable of tool making and using language. A peculiar trait is their seemingly inborn knack for devising strategies and tactics. Aggrods live in groups of ten to twenty individuals and are highly aggressive toward other packs. The packs work to fight off the larger predators in order to steal their kills. The rest of their diet consists of scavenging on carrion. 

====Fieldsrunner====
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<br />'''Fieldsrunner'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Joord
<br />-> Fisher]]
Fieldsrunners are a species of Joord that lives exclusively in the open plains. Their diet consists mostly of insects which they pluck from within the tall grasses. If not caught by surprise, a Fieldsrunner can almost always outrun their predators. The large tailfeathers of the Joord act as a counterweight while running. 
A transparent membrane covers their eyes, shielding them from the ash and smoke commonly in the air of the Burning Plains.

====Fisher====
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<br />'''Fisher'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Fieldsrunner]]
This species of Joord is most often found alongside lakes and riverbanks. Their long, curved beaks are used to probe into mud and crevasses between rocks to pick out any freshwater nuros or frowgs to eat. Like their cousin the Fieldsrunner, they are agile creatures, but their long necks can make them unseady.
Parasitic organisms living in the feathers of the Fisher produce poisonous spores which it can can release by ruffling its feathers. Both creatures benefit from this as the relationship provides the fisher with a potent defense mechanism, and the parasites can feed on fluids and dead skin.

====Noord====
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<br />'''Noord'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Joord
<br />-> Stalker/Yeti?/ Noord
<br />-> Flying Noord]]
The Noords were a species of Joord which lived in the temperate and tundra regions of the continent. They had downy feathers covering the entire length of their legs and some additional body fat to stay warm. During the winters, their near-white coloration had allowed them to avoid detection from both prey and predator alike.

====Stalker/Yeti/? Noord====
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<br />'''? Noord'''
<br />Status: Unknown
<br />progenitor: Noord
<br />-> Unknown]]
Is it a yeti or snow ostrich?

====Flying Noord====
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<br />'''Flying Noord'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Noord
<br />->Southern Noord]]
These large bird-like creatures are well built to survive in the frigid north. Their thick coat of feathers and layer of fat keep them comfortably warm during the winter season. Their webbed feet disperse their weight, which keeps them from sinking into the snow. Their chisel-like beak is used to peck through layers of ice on lakes and streams to reach water to drink, as well as pecking into dead trees for the insects inside.
The broad wingspan of the Flying Noord give the animal its namesake, the ability to fly.

====Southern Noord====
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<br />'''Southern Noord'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Noord
<br />->Jungle Noord]]
The Southern Noord mainly inhabits the large Frilla forest between the Burning Plains and the Ashen Highland. They feed on bugs in the bark of Frillas, as well as in the topsoil.


====Jungle Noord====
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<br />'''Jungle Noord'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Southern Noord]]
This offshoot of the Southern Noord inhabits the rainforests of the southern mountains and islands. Their diet consists of bugs and azrach fruit and seeds.

====Mountain Joord====
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<br />'''Mountain oord'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Joord
</br />-> High Mountain Joord]]
Mountain Joords live in the mountains on the western side of the continent. Their coloration serves to both blend them in with the dark stone, as well as to better absorb heat from the sun. Mutations lead to some of them hatching with an extra pair of arms. The trait ended up overall beneficial and spread throughout the gene-pool. Over time, they formed into a pair of wings which provide limited flight.
The Mountain Joords prey on small animals, and hunt by jumping onto their prey from high ledges. These jumps give much needed force for the weak Joords but is also very dangerous, as even a small mistake could cause grievous injury. They control their fall by flapping their large wings.
These daring jumps also work as a gauge for the females to see who is suitable mate. A more controlled descent is desirable by the female.

====High Mountain Joord====
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<br />'''Hight Mountain Joord'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Mountain Joord]]
Isolation from being on opposite sides of the mountains has resulted in this subspecies of the Mountain Joord. They tent to be more jumpy and irritable than the other Mtn. Joords.

====Crusher Joord====
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<br />'''Crusher Joord'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Joord]]
Crusher Joords live along the rivers and in the swamp, feeding on the shelled Keerbs. The strong beak and jaw muscles allow the Joord to break open the Keerbs for the soft meat within.
When threatened by Govniks or Higitains, they will begin to peck ferociously until the predator is dead or runs off.
 
====Hydra Joord====
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<br />'''Hydra Joord'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Joord]]
Hydra Joords are an odd species. Aside from being born with two heads, they have the ability to regrow lost limbs. If a head is lost, it too will grow back if given enough time if the other remains. They are native to the swamp.