More XX creatures

Imps

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-  6-8" tall

-  Live in swamps

-  Dark brown to green

-  Only in Great Britain and Ireland

-  Resemble pixies, do not have wings

-  Humor like young child

     o  Trip ppl into swamps

     o  Tie shoelaces together

     o  Studies have found done for imp's amusement

-  Diet

     o  Eat leaves, algae, and water bugs

          §  Will also eat frog or fish eggs

     o  Use tricks to lure water bugs into homes

     o  Can make nets and baskets out of seaweed and sticks

-  Breading – similar to snakes

     o  Born live

     o  1-10 babies

     o  Make nests with algae, weeds, and sticks along shores

     o  Stay in nest for 3-5 days

     o  Parents demolish nest and show them environment

-  Magic

     o  Similar to a house elf

     o  Not confirmed

     o  Use in their trickery

Jobberknolls

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-  Small, speckled blue bird

     o  Color depends on diet – darker colored insects, brighter feathers

          §  Balanced diet – electric blue

          §  More light bugs – paler

          §  More dark – dark or navy blue

     o  Spots are white or pale blue

-  North America and Northern Europe

-  Adapt to location and live in any type of climate

-  Memory

-  Unable to make noise until their death

     o  Recite everything they've ever hard backwards, then die

-  Breeding

     o  Pair of eggs ever 2 months – white with blue spots (based on female's blue)

     o  Take turns sitting on eggs 17-21 days

     o  Male takes care of babies until 2 weeks old – leave the nest and start own life

     o  Start breeding when they are 4 mo. Old

     o  Mate for life

     o  When one dies, other dies within 72 hours

-  Lait - creamy substance in gizzard to feed young

-  Keeping

     o  License not required to keep jobberknolls

     o  Place silencing charm when health starts declining

     o  Need large area (10'x15')

     o  Can keep several pairs together

-  Uses

     o  Feathers in memory potions and truth serums

     o  Collect as shed