Original Species: Mantis-Claw Wyvern (remake)

The Mantis-Claw Wyvern is a close relative of the Brutarm Wyvern. It resides in the dense forests on the northern coast of Shangrila. As a herbivore, it uses its elongated, mantis-like claws to pull down vegetation. In terms of its ecological niche, it is a high browser, feeding on leaves and fruit. On occasion, it supplements its diet with small invertebrates.

Recent observations identified 3 of the Mantis-Claw's preferred fruits:
- Melitrona: A bright-yellow fruit, rich in sugars and vitamin C. Its high sugar content provides the wyvern with more energy and serves as a key ingredient in producing its alcohol-based breath-weapon.
- Passipeara: A protein-rich sweet fruit. It's a key element in the diets of many herbivorous wyverns, as it helps them grow while also providing easily processable energy.
- Cadovado: This fruit has a high fat content as well as a high protein content. While the Passipeara contains more protein, it is not high in fat, which is crucial for vitamin absorption.

Both males and females have colorful heads and throats. Those are used in courtship rituals and for intraspecific threat displays.
Mantis-Claw Wyverns are solitary parents. After mating, which takes place right at the midpoint of the dry season, females will lay anywhere between 5 and 10 eggs. Before they lay their eggs, they will seek out bones of dead animals to obtain more calcium for the eggshells. The eggs are laid inside a mound made up of dry leaves and twigs. The decaying vegetation incubates the eggs. The young will hatch towards the tail-end of the rainy season, which is when there is the greatest abundance of ripe fruit.
The hatchlings will remain with their mother for around 4 years before they are big enough to fend for themselves.

Disposition-wise, the Mantis-Claw is less aggressive than its cousin, the Brutarm, but still poses a potential threat to unwary explorers. Also, unlike its cousin, this wyvern possesses a potent breath weapon, one shared with many frugivorous wyverns that call the forests of Shangrila home: alcoholic breath. By eating a lot of fruit and other plant matter, the Mantis-Claw produces vast quantities of Ethanol, which it then stores in sacks on the sides of its neck. When threatened, it expels this highly concentrated alcohol as a mist that causes severe irritation to the target's eyes and airways. If inhaled, the mist causes disorientation and other effects typical of alcohol poisoning.

If the Mantis-Claw's breath attack doesn't deter the aggressor, it will resort to slashing, pecking, and tail lashing until it relents or is killed. Due to that, explorers are strongly advised to give this wyvern a wide berth at all possible.