The organism is named the Grassweaver. It gets its name from the way it weaves through the tall grass in stealth while catching its prey. Compared to its ancestor, the raccoon, it has great agility and is much sleeker in order to weave through the grass.

       The Grassweaver differs from the raccoon in many ways. It has a longer tail for balance and agility in the high grasses. It is also has a longer, sleeker and slightly thinner body to make it more aerodynamic while zigzagging quickly through the Amazon grasslands. It has reddish brown fur to help it camouflage in to it¡¯s natural surroundings, unlike its former grayish fur. It also has longer claws in order to dig and grip and sharper, longer, teeth to help it hunt. Grassweavers have slightly shorter whiskers and their ears are larger as well as laid back for better hearing and being more aerodynamic. Their arms and legs are also stronger so that they may run quickly. Lastly, Grassweavers have thick fur and a good sense of smell.

       The Grassweaver however keeps some characteristics from its ancestor. The most noticeable characteristic is the black mask of the raccoon which covers the Grassweaver¡¯s eyes as well as the black rings on its tail. The last shared characteristic is the raccoon¡¯s good vision at night.

       The lifespan of the Grassweaver may be up to 16 years old like its ancestor, but most do not survive until then.

       The Grassweaver¡¯s classification is an omnivore which means that it is able to eat both plant material and animal matter, the same way its ancestor does. It can also be classified as:
Kingdom: Animalia It is an animal.
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata It has a backbone.
Class: Mammalia It is a mammal. ( It is warm-blooded.)
Order: Omnivora It is an omnivore. ( It eats plants and animals.)

       The Grassweavers are omnivores, which allows them to eat almost anything edible. However, in this new, dry world, Grassweavers are restricted to a smaller menu. Their daily diet consists of roots, bugs, carakillers, carakiller eggs and fish.

       These furry mammals get their fish from the fish traps of the baboocari. Living on the same territory as them gives them the advantage of always finding a few fish in the cleverly woven traps the baboocari had set in nearby lakes and bodies of water. Standing hunched on the water¡¯s edge on their hind legs, the Grassweavers slowly claw in the tumbleweed like bundle together by hooking onto the twigs and branches with their long claws. In exchange, the Grassweaver does its best to fend off the carakillers coming to chase down the baboocari.

       Being scavengers in the past gives the Grassweavers the ability and skill to be able to sneak into carakiller territory to steal a couple of carakiller eggs from the large nest of tasty delicacies. For this job, small, agile but strong Grassweavers are sent so that they may slip in and out unnoticed weaving through the long grass, balancing one egg each on its back, nestling the egg carefully with its long tail so that it doesn¡¯t fall. Although these fast animals rarely fail their mission, a small receiving crew waits on the borders of the Grassweavers¡¯ territory, hidden by the foliage, in the event that the scavenging crew gets caught and has to make a run for it. If this happens, the receiving crew quickly rushes in upon hearing the seemingly silent, high-pitched calls of the Grassweavers, to defend their fellow group members and buy them time for a getaway into safe lands with the food.

       Much like many bug-loving animals, the Grassweavers enjoy fires due to the fact that during that time, bugs come out of the ground as easy prey. These mammals gratefully take this time to quickly gather insects and carry them off to their burrows and homes, somewhere far away from the fire.

       One adult carakiller from their daily job of defending their grounds and neighbors will provide enough feed for half of the large group of Grassweavers living together on baboocari territory. This, mixed with the fish, eggs, occasional finds of bugs and roots from digs will provide a hardy meal for all of the Grassweaver families in the cluster of homes. However, there occasionally will be a need for a second carakiller carcass, in which during that time, a hunting party would need to go out and kill a stray carakiller in the enemy territory. In order to do so, they use their simple yet sturdy attacking technique as described in the offensive capabilities section.

       Similar to the raccoon, which is 60cm to 95cm in length, the Grassweaver is fairly large. The average fully grown adult female Grassweaver is 1m in length from the end of its tail to the tip of its nose. The average fully grown adult male is about 1.25m to 1.5m in length.

       Since the Grassweaver, is slightly larger than a raccoon, it is also slighlty heavier. The raccoon is 14 kg. The mass of a full grown adult female Grassweaver is 20kg while the adult male is 25kg to 30kg

       The time period that the Grassweaver lives in is 5 million years in the future

       During this time, the planet is much colder, about 5-6 degrees below the present global temperature. Sea levels were dropped due to the fact that all the moisture is locked up inside the ice caps. Since the moisture is gone, everything is quite dry, causing parts of North America to become a cold desert. A fair amount of the Earth¡¯s surface is covered with a giant glacier.

       During the next 5 million years, the raccoon will quickly learn that group work and living in clusters of 6-10 families will greatly increase their chances of survival. They will adapt to working together in this harsh new world, slowly migrating south in search of warmer weather.

       In this new environment in the Amazon Grasslands, the raccoons originating from southern parts of North America will be the only types of its species surviving because of the fact that they will be the only ones able to move down into the Amazons in South America before the ice age begins. During this long, treacherous journey for warmth, the raccoon population will slowly thin out and in its place, their decendents, the Grassweavers will begin to walk. The Grassweavers will be a new, adapted version of the average raccoon, ready for living in the plains that will soon take the place of the rain forest.\

       These furry creatures will take to digging their own burrows underground, connected to each other one way or another using tunnels. The burrows will be clustered together and will serve like one big house for the whole group of families.

       Sharp claws that are able to retract back and forth like a lion¡¯s will be developed to help dig and hunt, along with much sharper teeth to make the animal more preditory, yet still be able to gnaw on plant life.

       Their bodies have been made sleeker, skinner and bit longer to easily manuver its way through the long grass. Their dark reddish-brown, white and black fur colour helps blend in with its surroundings better, so that they may slip through the green tresses of the plains without being noticed.

       Silence is key to being unnoticed. Therefore, the Grassweavers have developed high-pitched calls that only their very powerful and quite long ears can hear. Sending these silent calls at different frequencies allow these animals to know when it¡¯s time to hunt, when it¡¯s time to hide, when it¡¯s time to feed and etc. This ability gives them the privledge for noiseless communication through their large group of families.

       Grassweavers rarely hide for they are quite stubborn and vicious when coming to enemies and danger. But even they know what battles they cannot win.

       If by any chance that a whole flock of carakillers pass near their lands, they will hurry into the burrows and wait for them to pass. Although the Grassweavers are strong, they would not be able to fight a full flock of the giant birds without losing the battle.

       Fires rarely spread upon the terrain over their network of burrows and tunnels near the water. But when they do happen to ascend overtop of their homes and shelter, they will immediately evacuate. Young females and mothers will carry any kits that are not able to walk or are not strong enough on their backs for they are not too heavy. Together, the families will scurry off to a nearby clearing or lake where they will wait out the worst of the fire and then go back to their old burrows or just start fresh once more, digging and wiggling around in the dirt for a new home.

       For the most part, these animals are quite harmless but if disturbed, they will become very defensive and take to the offense, fending off their enemies bravely.

       Grassweavers tend to target weakened, small, young or stray members of a species when going on the offensive.

       When Grassweavers attack, they do so in groups. When attacking large animals, particularly strong males of the group shoot out for the creature¡¯s lower body parts first and weaken the animal using their sharp claws and teeth. Slightly weaker males and vicious and strong females quickly follow, tackling the animal down onto the ground and hastly tearing a deep wound in the body. After doing so, the whole hunting group rapidly get to killing the animal(if it already isn¡¯t killed) and tearing the flesh for easy transport back to the burrows.

       These raccoon like mammals are rarely seen hunting down animals smaller or equal to its size for in its new habitat, it does not have much enemies its size.

       The Grassweaver is unique because it has 5 fingers, similar to a humans¡¯s which allows it to wash its food much like its ancestor. It can swim it has to and its claws are reatractable.

       The Grassweavers, unlike their ancesters have adapted from having to have a mating season to mating all year round in which therefore causes litters to be born in various times of the four seasons, most litters usually being born during spring and summer.

       Although the Grassweavers mate all year round, every spring, Grassweavers whom are old enough get together from many different territories and groups for a chance to mate with others from different groups of families beyond their grounds. Here, they try to impress each other in order to gain the better mate and occasionally fight if they have to.

       Once Grassweavers mate, they mate for life. The female is mated into the male¡¯s family or the newly mated Grassweavers go off to start their own group of families near another set of baboocari.

       In one Grassweaver family, a litter of 2-8 kits are born every year. The young are roughly 20 cm in length within one week of birth with the weight of 2.5-5 kg. Their ears are small and stubby as so is their tail. In two weeks time, the Grassweaver kits slowly open their eyes. Upon birth, these kits take on a dark brownish-grey hue of fur without any rings or mask. Within a month or so, these characteristics taken down from their past starts to appear, and their ears and tail slowly begin to grow longer. Their claws and teeth begin to develop last, and within four month¡¯s time, the young are prowling and prancing about, playing and tackling each other to the ground for practise.

       The average Grassweaver family consists of the following members;
~ A mother and father,
~ 1-5 one-year olds,
~ A litter of 2-8 kits born this year.

       During their first year of life, a kit has a fifty-fifty chance of surviving. Usually in a litter, the strongest and the most willing ones survive. Many kits die in the first year due to dieases, starvation, burrow cave-ins and sometimes poisoning from unfriendly plants it might happen to eat while outside. About 1-5 kits survive to see their one year birthday.

       In their second year of living, the males experience their first hunt while the females assist the mother with the new litter of pups. Some females may wish to participate in fights and encounters with the enemy as well and go along with the males. 1-3 near-adult Grassweavers survive due to poisoning from unfriendly foods, starvation, burrow cave-ins wounds from battles with carakillers and falling prey to carakillers. From their second year and on, they consistently run the risk of all these things.

       As soon as the next spring after their first birthday arrives, the Grassweavers are free to go off to start their own families. They aren¡¯t pushed or urged to go, however, until the time for new litter comes. At that time, the now adult Grassweavers are shooed out of the family burrow to make room for the new arrivals, thus forcing them to go out on their own.