Sker Buffalo

''On an island inhabited by giant arthropods and animals that seem like vastly different phyla had been spliced together, the massive bovine seems as out of place as any of the other native fauna would be somewhere else.. Having an amphibious lifestyle with a preference to slow-moving, swampy water full of vegetation it also feeds on, it has wide hooves to prevent sinking in the soft mud and is often covered with the plants it tears up while moving. Additionally, the sker buffalo has a very coarse fur that facilitates the growth of algae and higher plants, turning the animal a speckled green. The alga content in its fur is so high that in one case where a sker buffalo was attacked by a skullcrawler in water, there were green clouds billowing out of the fur mixed with blood, which led to the assumption they would have a separate system of chlorophyll circulating in their bodies. The myoglobine content is closer to that of a whale rather than a water buffalo, which together with its unusually slow metabolism allows the animal to submerge for several hours, either to feed or to camouflage itself against the dangerous predators of the island. The only time sker buffalos have been observed making any rapid movements were fights among bulls, which are usually as quickly over as they have started or going on for hours in rare occasions. Cows' horns don't split up, making them more effective as weapons to defend themselves and their calves from predators. ''