But after you are finished saying Aww think about about Mrs Centipede and the three baby Centipede's that will be waiting up all night for Mr centipede to make it home...... waiting and waiting........
This critter lives way up in the trees away from hungry croc's and evil plants he comes out at dusk and feeds apon the many bugs of the forest.

If ya wanna survive...show bigger teeth. That's the ticket.
Okay...I didn't mean for it to take this long, but...here it is. I know that a big thing here is that the style of the 'creatures' are different than the forest...:P.

I don't draw monkeys often.

Hee hee. My favorite part is the prissy little tail. "Plants can't eat me cause I can wave my prissy little tail in their face!" ^^

Anways, these cats live in trees. Born in trees, die in trees, rarely leave the trees aside from getting water. They brace themselves against the trunks and latch on with retractable claws during particularly hard gusts of wind.

-snicker- The pansy-tail.

Edit: I forgot to mention how awesome this contest idea was. There's not many things I enjoy more than thinking up odd critters.

..workin on colorin it

She sits waiting for a herd of bunnies to scamper by.....
*pounce*

Well. First things first. The writing on the prompt was amazing, as was the idea as a whole--thanks so much, DinoFlorist!
This was the second entry I did; the first one I worked on for four and a half hours, only to have the applet go crazy on me (look at the front leg!), killing everything I had done. Here's the link.
This little guy has eight skinny, double-jointed legs. The first pair have an extra joint, and are usually carried folded over on its back. All of them are tipped with the claws you can see, made of three claws that close into points. When the winds come around, it can stick all of the claws into the ground, and extend them to give it more leverage. These also come in useful when catching rabbits and fish, and to jab at the alligator. The many legs distribute its weight over many small points of ground and so help to avoid the mines. It is camouflaged, and so is invisible from the creature-eating plants. As for the monkeys and their coconuts, well, lucky for them, these thingies taste pretty good. Can't be helped with that big body and skinny legs.
I'm really happy with the expression on the fish.
Edit: Compression killed this. And, eew, there are ugly lines on the left side that I didn't notice before.

urgh this was harder than i thought im not used to drawing this kinda stuff but anyway i did the body like a monkey and the rest just kinda happened lol...

Ok people..we are off and running..... let's have em!

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Heres a picture to show you jst how crazy I can be at times.