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Two red-crested wyverns, predators of the prairie.

It is noteworthy that Yaolanese flora - even “true” flora as opposed to half-plants or pseudo-plants - tends to be much more motile than the terran plants with which we are familiar. They are typically composed of a few, or sometimes only one, leaf-analogue structure, controlled by regulator muscles that respond to subtle changes in light to position the plant such that the maximum possible radiation flux is always incident upon the leaf face. The effect of this behavior is quite striking on the leaf prairies, where thousands upon thousands of ochrestalks track the position of Yaolan’s sun in near-perfect synchronization over the course of the day before returning to a vertical standing position overnight to minimize radiation heat loss to the cool night sky. 

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"Death Gleaners" from "The Future is Wild."