Skull Island birds and sealife

The following is a list of birds and fish living on Skull Island in the continuity of the 2005 film King Kong by Peter Jackson.

Monsters

	Seagulls inhabited Skull Island, and nested in the cliffs where they preyed on Discus, and had their nests raided by Dragonskins
	Profanornis sordicus were a species of gruesome carrion stork that stood from three to four feet at the hip. While they mostly fed on carrion meat, they were also known to hunt lizards, large insects, unguarded chicks and young dinosaurs. Nesting in the brush, their young hatched already capable of feeding themselves. Despite this, for their first year of life they remained with their parents for protection. This was necessary, as sordicus were so indiscriminate in their feeding that other sordicus adults were just as big of a threat as other predators.
	Profanornis spinosus were another species of carrion stork standing five to seven feet tall at the hip. Its beak housed several tooth-like thorny protrusions that helped them to catch fish and amphibians like Swamp-wings in the lowland rivers they lived near. They were also ready eaters of carrion. Young spinosus followed their parents through the waterways and learned to hunt for themselves. Both males and females sported crests, although male's crests were larger and more colorful
	Carrion Parrots were a species of cattle, whose being identical to mainland Asiatic species suggested that they had arrived on Skull Island recently, possibly in the last thousand years. This timeframe suggested that they had been brought to the island by the original human inhabitants. The Guars survived surprisingly well in the jungle. Their horns made them formidable foes to their main predator, the Venatosaurus, and their dark coloration allowed them to blend in to their jungle surroundings.
	Burglar Monkeys were a species of one to two foot long monkeys that were more akin to tarsiers and loruses than true monkeys. They could be found climbing in the jungle's high canopy eating fruit, nuts, flower buds, insects and eggs. Not being especially fast, or in possession of defensive structures, Burglar Monkeys avoided predators by hiding in communal dens during the day and emerging at dusk, when their keen senses allowed them a greater edge.
	Howlers were flying rodents with four to five foot wingspans that lived in the jungles of Skull Island. With their leathery wings, sharp teeth, eerie calls, and bulbous eyes, the bat-like predators searched the dark for birds, rats, large insects, and lizards. A favorite food of theirs was the Skull Island White Bat, which they tore from their roosts as they slept in the daytime, or hunted at dusk.
	Skull Island White Bats were a small species with seven to nine inch wingspans that were not true bats. They were instead an analagous species with rodent ancestry. Despite this, they had large ears and hunted insects and centipedes in the night by sonar.
	Main article: Terapusmordax. Terapusmordax were a species of flying rodent with a eight to ten foot wingspan, and a stench that Project Legacy scientists recorded as being enough to make noses bleed.
	Main article: King Kong. Megaprimatus kong were eighteen to twenty-five foot tall apes that had been hunted nearly to extinction by Vastatosaurus rex at the time of Skull Island's discovery. While they had lived on the island for many thousands of years, the Megaprimatus were certainly not native to the island and were likely brought from mainland Asia. While they physiologically resembled African gorillas, it is theorized that they descended from Gigantopithecus. Regardless, they had vastly increased in size in a short time, whether as a response to Skull Island's harsh environment or through selective breeding none can be sure. Ape effigies left by the original human inhabitants of Skull Island point to their being revered by those people.

Gallery

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  A diagram of Cutiscidis feeding

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  Abyscidis

References

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