Pinnatono

Pinnatono
Name:	Pinnatono amarus
Abilities and Weapons:	Legs, Claws, Beak
Occupation:	Browsing primary consumer
Home:	Skull Island
First Appearance:	"The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island" (from 2005)
Diet:	Frugivore
Size:	Height: 3 meters Weight Estimated: 450 kilograms
Status:	Rescued from extinction during the 1938 expedition on Skull Island.

The Pinnatono amarus ("unkind feathered thunder"), is a large, colorful, frugivorous, flightless, wingless, moa-like notopalaeognath from the jungles of Skull Island. It measures 5-6 feet tall to the hip and is 9.8 feet tall in total (3 meters). It is the largest bird of Skull Island that is not a Phorusrhacid.

Facts

The Pinnatono is a flightless bird with a small head to reach inside thorny bushes for hidden berries and other fruit.

Though outwardly defenseless, a Pinnatono has one ace up its feathered sleeve. Making up about a quarter of the Pinnatono’s diet is a rather noxious berry that most other species leave alone for its extremely hot flesh. Immune to its gut-scaring qualities, a Pinnatono bulk loads the fruit. In the acidic stomach of the bird it acquires newfound potency, giving off a foul gas that rises heavily from the feces, breath and pores.

On command, a Pinnatono can recall its stomach contents into an inflatable gullet in its throat and regurgitate it, with surprising accuracy and projection, to discourage threats. Even the most armored of predators, like V.Rexes, will avoid the acidic pulp, which causes extreme discomfort to the eyes and other sensitive parts.

Trivia

• Although looking oddly like an Ostrich or Moa. The Pinnatono as a notopalaeognath, is closely related to the South America Rhea, technically making the Pinnatono the largest Rhea species.
• Like all animals from Skull Island. It is unknown what they faced during the sinking of the island. Given the multiple expeditions, there may be a chance that a few surviving populations was saved off-land to a more stable enclosure.