They’re just mutant chickens.
Juklir are a species of draconic mutant chickens. Due to their closeness to dragons (or dinosaurs, either or), they would mutate instead of going through õndemification. With the resultant species being named by the Sivilão as “Juklir”, so named for the sound they make. “Juk juk”.
Juklir are generally pretty close to their pre õndemic existence, being omnivoric, feathered, six legged wyrms that are commonly domesticated for the prolific amount of eggs they lay.
Juklir Breeds
Arid Juklir are the most familiarly chickens, boasting bright feathers to keep the heat off their body and a sort of “canvas” of feathers on their back to help further with the sun. They are omnivores known to eat anything from a rotting corpse to grains and grass to bugs. They are also very water hardy and can last weeks without large amounts of water. Arid Juklir tend to stay an semi arid steppes and grasslands more than true deserts. Where they can graze on the vast plants and grasses and insects of those regions
Arctic Juklir are the opposite, deep black feathers and wide feet hidden under their dense feathers.
Their feet particularly are very well equipped for digging into snow or hard soil as a lot of their diet comes more from starchy roots, but again they will likely eat anything they come across. They are most known to be found in Tundras above all, where starchy tubers and bugs during the warm seasons are easily found. Though they are known to regularly migrate to warmer climates as the local seasons chill
Tropical Juklir are a bit stranger, boasting a prehensile tail, no feathers, and very grabby gecko like hands that allow them to easily climb trees, with them living largely aboreal lives grazing tropical trees and pecking the wood for various tropical bugs and eggs that they can eat. Tropical juklir are most found in dense tropical forests and rainforests, as well as bamboo forests, where they tend to thrive
and lastly Temperate Juklir are perhaps the most boring, Dense green feathers that help them blend in to temperate prairies and grasslands, they tend to be the fastest of all juklir and are also capable climbers! Temperate drekir are prairie wyrms, they tend to not like dense forests and can mostly be found amongst the open fields and meadows
Juklir and Draconic Societies
Juklir are a popularly domesticated animal as time continues on in the DragonScape timeline on the plana of the Americas, which is the only plana they are native to. Thanks to their generally versatile diets, hands off raising and rearing and high amount of eggs, drekir and ormer in the Americas would take to the animal as a means of providing a steady supply of meat and eggs to their diets. Particularly in Eastern North America, and Central South America, Juklir are a common source of food for sedentary communities both of ormer and drekir. Even amongst some sivilão õfuthar Juklir would be embraced simply due to how productive and prolific producers of egg and poultry they can be.
As there are also wild Juklir in the Americas, they are also popularly hunted, with their nests being raided for eggs by hunter gatherer groups in regions which see juklir that have not been domesticated.
Human colonial societies attempting to bring their own chickens into the dragonscape would of course see them mutate into Juklir, usually in a far more gradual manner than õndemification. With later rogue colonial outposts or outcasts often taking juklir with them into their new settlements and communities, spreading juklir even further into isolated communities around the end of the Awakening Period.
In the far future of the Draconic Golden Age, when the Americas could communicate, trade, and interact with denizens of other planar such as Logáu and Agõrl, Juklir would see a brief burst of intercelestial trade. However the domestication of Juklir never grew popular in Logáu and Agõrl, where Rapsar would be far more dominant. By the time of the Thalmvar Juklir would be carried by many refugee filled celestial ships as they scattered from the Earthen expanse across the DragonScape, spreading the species far and wide.
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