* This is a made up animal. Could dispersion be a population characteristic for the following animal. Their specialized energy consumption (diet) needs to undergo multiple energy transfers with considerable energy losses (radiant energy to aquatic animals) to support their species. is a slow-moving carnivore with a duck bill, flippers, a long neck, and a short range of motion. Is slow and awkward, with no fangs, claws, or nails. While this species is a mammal, it also has the ability to lay eggs as a part of its reproductive cycle. However, a female Jacks can only lay one egg every 5 months. Unlike similar freshwater semi-aquatic mammal species, the beaver, the Platyoth, doesn’t build itself a home or nest instead, it roams. At night, the Jack will locate riparian sedges to hide for sleep.

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Could dispersion be a population characteristic for the following animal. Their specialized energy consumption (diet) needs to undergo multiple energy transfers with considerable energy losses (radiant energy to aquatic animals) to support their species. is a slow-moving carnivore with a duck bill, flippers, a long neck, and a short range of motion. Is slow and awkward, with no fangs, claws, or nails. While this species is a mammal, it also has the ability to lay eggs as a part of its reproductive cycle. However, a female Jacks can only lay one egg every 5 months. Unlike similar freshwater semi-aquatic mammal species, the beaver, the Platyoth, doesn’t build itself a home or nest instead, it roams. At night, the Jack will locate riparian sedges to hide for sleep.

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