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Buoygea
Buoygea
General information
Universe Sagan 4
Classification Aeropod boye
Species type Black Flora
Homeworld Sagan IV
Environment Jujubee Polar Sea
Intelligence Non-sapient
Biochemistry Carbon-based lifeform
Biological information
Average height 30cm
Locomotion Sessile drifting in the sea, carried by currents
Feeding behavior Autotroph
Lineage information
Ancestor(s) Sprawling Droopgea
Bubble Droopgea
Cultural information
Alignment Neutral
Sociocultral characteristics
Scientific taxonomy
Planet Earth
Domain Eukaryota
Genus Aeropod
Species boye
Other information
Status Least Concern

The buoygea have split from their ancestors, the bubble droopgea, and continue to exist within the Jujubee Polar Sea. They have adapted to survive longer out on the ocean, and to do this they have grown many more tentacles than their ancestor. For the most part these are used simply to increase surface area for photosynthesis. However, six tentacles have grown along the dorsal surface of the air-chamber, which have grown small flaps between them to operate as very primitive sails. This allows the buoygea to slowly drift along the air currents. Should they not obtain enough nutrients however to continue their existence much longer, they will enter a state of hibernation, where they require significantly less nutrients to survive, but produce less energy via photosynthesis. They will then leave this hibernation once more nutrients are available. The extra length is in fact due to the dorsal sail and lengthened lower tentacles.

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