Oriental pratincole Oriental pratincole The oriental pratincole ("Glareola maldivarum"), also known as the grasshopper-bird or swallow-plover, is a wader in the pratincole family, Glareolidae. The genus name is a diminutive of Latin "glarea", "gravel", referring to a typical nesting habitat for pratincoles. The species name "maldivarum" refers to the type locality, the ocean near the Maldive Islands; the type specimen, caught alive at sea, survived for a month on flies. These birds have short legs, long pointed wings and long forked tails. They have short bills, which is an adaptation to aerial feeding. The back and head are brown, and the wings
Foo creature Foo creature In the "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game, the foo creature is a type of outsider creature. The foo dog and the foo lion first appeared in the first edition "Monster Manual II" (1983). The foo dog and the foo lion appeared in second edition for the Kara-Tur setting in the "Monstrous Compendium Kara-Tur Appendix" (1990). The foo dog and the foo lion appeared for the Planescape setting in the first "Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix" (1994), and the "Guide to the Ethereal Plane" (1998). A foo creature is found on the Upper Outer Planes, and can sometimes be