Metal Boys

Metal Boys
Metal Boys, sometimes known as The Metal Boys is a medium-large sized mammal native to The Dustbowl, The Coldfront, and even sometimes The Mountain Lab. Metal boys are easily identifiable by their bright yellow heads and dark goggles, although certain breeds of metal boys can be seen with a darker, more elongated head, or thicker eyes, and even more commonly both. Metal boys are noted for their intelligence, or lack there of. Studies show metal boys are incapable of learning from their mistakes and have trouble navigating their environment. Metal boys have trouble surviving in the wild, making almost all carnivores their natural predators. A population of metal boys will often die out quickly if they do not have a group leader. Metal boys are social creatures, particularly amongst members of their own species often building nests ranging from two to even five or possibly six metal boys.

Social Behavior
Although they can be solitary, metal boys typically form groups ranging 2 to 4. Typically metal boys will build their nests by themselves and will not help their fellow metal boys. They do, however, build their nests next to each other creating one big metal boy nest. The largest metal boy nest was discovered by Samuel Baker in 1881, who was known for his research on metal boys. Baker reported a nest of 16 metal boys. Although metal boys are not typically dangerous by themselves, Baker reported "I've never been more afraid for my life ever before" and "They were like bees but worse."

Diet
An average metal boy diet typically consist of 40% invertebrates, 33% plant material and 27% vertebrates. Baker once stated "they'll eat basically anything I give them." Although metal boys will feed on the typical gibui if presented with an easy kill they have little to no means of hunting for themselves and just eat metal instead. When gibui are plentiful metal boys will start to develop a taste of specific foods. This can often result in them risking their lives to hunt down predators. Metal boys can go a very long time without food, sometimes even whole rounds without getting a single bite to eat.

Reproduction
Little is known about how metal boys reproduce despite all the research done of the subject. Samuel Baker has written many papers on the subject and is currently the only man to have ever seen it in action. Baker once said, "It was horrible" and "I've never thrown up more in my life." It is believed by many scientists that Baker died from cardiac arrest because he witnessed metal boys mating and thus the subject hasn't been researched since.