TsERBODACTYL

The beaked tserbodacyl is a rare creature indeed, largely because so few of its young make it to maturity. In a strange evolutionary twist, the tserbodactyl is always born with an odd number of nipples, between 7 and 27. (Both male and female tserbodactyls bear and nurse their young.) A tserbodactyl litter is always an even number and always exactly one off of the nipple count, leaving either one nipple unclaimed or one baby tserbodacyl without its own “bottle” so to speak. Naturally high-tempered, contemptuous and finicky, the baby tserbodactyls invariably fight over the imbalance and in their constant bickering, fail to thrive.

Many Magibilologists have studied the tserbodactyl and attempted different solutions: taking turns, adding a synthetic nipple to even the odds. The only variation that has made any progress is by offering the nestlings BBQ in place of their milk diet. A litter of up to 12 tserbodacyls will leave their bickering to eat BBQ in apparent cheerfulness and calm, though they have a very strong preference for Texas BBQ over Kansas City.

We believe that this discovery could lead to growing tserbodactyl populations and maybe some day even remove them from our “endangered creatures” list. Unfortunately large amounts of Texas BBQ takeout compound our expenses so the ASPMC has a separate “Tserbodactyl Texas BBQ Fund” which you can find on the “investigate” page.