Animal Powers
Wear a warning you never had to earn.
Animals grouped here express a similar power through their behavior in nature. Each species still has its own principle, lesson, meaning, and field-guide page.
3 species
Species principle: Borrowed Warning
Wear a warning you never had to earn.
Safety can come from resembling what others have learned to avoid.
Common Wolf Snakes are non-venomous but banded closely enough to the highly venomous krait that predators, and people, hesitate.
Species principle: Blinking Dark
Blink with timing.
Light is strongest when it can be timed, hidden, and shared.
Flashlight Fish have light organs with bioluminescent bacteria and can flash or conceal them while schooling and moving at night.
Species principle: Night Reach
Wait for dark, then walk far.
The same ground is a different place depending on when you cross it.
Long-legged Spiny Lobster stays wedged in a reef crevice through daylight and walks out on unusually long legs to forage across open reef only after dark.
