14 - Not Giraffes
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Object is a species of animal that is able to anomalously change its shape. For a full biological description, refer to adenda.
Object is a social parasyte species with behaviour similar to a cuckoo bird. Its parents place their offspring alongside offsprings of different creatures, which causes them to be raised by the host species' parents. Unlike cuckoo birds, though, this species does not attempt to kill other youngsters, and due to its anomalous ability to take the host species' appearance, it tends to live normally.
For reasons unknown, almost all instances of this object take the appearance of giraffes. Furthermore, it has a more docile behaviour than giraffes, which means that most giraffes captured for zoos and other collections are actually instances of this object. It is estimated that 90% of giraffes in capitivity in Europe, 98% in Asia and 99% in the Americas are actually instances of this object.
The object cannot mate with the host species but can mate with other instances of itself. To date, no difference in behaviour has been observed between instances of the object and actual giraffes in captivity. Generations of the object will remain in giraffe shape unless threatened (see details of Experiment 4342180-017 in the adenda).
Current containment method is to slowly introduce more real giraffes to zoos until the object dies out. However, due to changes in legislation and worldwide outlook on animal capture, this has become more consistently more difficult. Not only are few giraffes available to be sourced yearly, but most of this turn out to be instances of the object.
A team is to be ready to capture all instances of an object should there be any situation in which they might escape from a zoo, circus or other collection, as there is danger the object might take the shape of another animal and upset the local environment.
There is great discussion as to what should be done to instances of the object of the wild, as they do present anomalous effects, but appear to live in a healthy parasocial relationship with giraffes, and are believed to have assisted in the population recovery of several giraffe species previously endagered. However, the DPA remains neutral on this discussion, as there are no giraffes native to Brazil.
Object is a species of animal that is able to anomalously change its shape. For a full biological description, refer to adenda.
Object is a social parasyte species with behaviour similar to a cuckoo bird. Its parents place their offspring alongside offsprings of different creatures, which causes them to be raised by the host species' parents. Unlike cuckoo birds, though, this species does not attempt to kill other youngsters, and due to its anomalous ability to take the host species' appearance, it tends to live normally.
For reasons unknown, almost all instances of this object take the appearance of giraffes. Furthermore, it has a more docile behaviour than giraffes, which means that most giraffes captured for zoos and other collections are actually instances of this object. It is estimated that 90% of giraffes in capitivity in Europe, 98% in Asia and 99% in the Americas are actually instances of this object.
The object cannot mate with the host species but can mate with other instances of itself. To date, no difference in behaviour has been observed between instances of the object and actual giraffes in captivity. Generations of the object will remain in giraffe shape unless threatened (see details of Experiment 4342180-017 in the adenda).
Current containment method is to slowly introduce more real giraffes to zoos until the object dies out. However, due to changes in legislation and worldwide outlook on animal capture, this has become more consistently more difficult. Not only are few giraffes available to be sourced yearly, but most of this turn out to be instances of the object.
A team is to be ready to capture all instances of an object should there be any situation in which they might escape from a zoo, circus or other collection, as there is danger the object might take the shape of another animal and upset the local environment.
There is great discussion as to what should be done to instances of the object of the wild, as they do present anomalous effects, but appear to live in a healthy parasocial relationship with giraffes, and are believed to have assisted in the population recovery of several giraffe species previously endagered. However, the DPA remains neutral on this discussion, as there are no giraffes native to Brazil.
