Talk:Hammerbeak/@comment-34245592-20180706050752

these things remind me of pachycephalasaurus, with the huge head and all. i imagine that flocks are made of a patriarch, his females, and submissive males, possibly the patriarch's sons. hammerbeak patriarchs might have territories in the sky, and either a submissive male or a male from outside the colony can challenge the patriarch for breeding rights. the winner keeps all the females and the looser is kicked out from the flock. maybe the new king will then kill all the old king's offspring so that his new females will want to breed faster. i can imagine them being very territorial, perhaps using the shiny objects they collect as markers and making threatening screeches and maybe even honks at potential threats that come close. although its more likely they behave more like a combo of dolphins and vultures, opurtunistic scavengers/preditors that do stuff cause they think its fun. perhaps they have loosely held together flocks, letting any lone hammerbeaks join in, and merging with other flocks they find and taking down preditors many times their size, like 20 of these wailing on the back of a crimson splitjaw until its spine breaks and it falls into the depths. of couse the splitjaw probably killed half of the hammerbeaks in the hunt. perhaps the females will make makeshift nests and have kids around the body.