Forest bird

Small and wary, the forest bird leaves danger behind faster than almost any other animal.

Hand-colored natural-history study: Forest bird

Forest birds rest briefly and often move in fast bursts. Threatened, they flee at particularly high speed. They stay still longer at night and in rain, but immediate danger interrupts that rest. Magma do not deliberately hunt them; above all, they contribute to the forest's visible life.

Even this small animal has a lifespan and may leave a small carcass. A creature that is not hunted can thus still enter the later cycle of decay and food. Its disappearance is permanent; the forest's finite population is not replenished in the same world.