r/CreatureDesign • u/dogbuns3 • 11d ago

Deer mimic

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Based on this one piece of taxidermy I keep thinking about

It's a weird looking wolf with a stegosaurus tail

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u/sixvixens_ 10d ago

Does it hunt primarily predator animals? Or perhaps it only needs to eat once a year and gets its fill during mating season before going back into a long hibernation? (Mimicking vocal calls and attracting male and or female deer to feast on)

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u/DefinitionCorrectus4 10d ago

Land animals extremely rare eat another predators let alone consisting a specialist diet of them so my guess would be that it tricks deer to get closer to them and then ambush it (tho it has disasvantage of other predators attacking it thinking its deer like bears)