Heterocebiraptor

Heterocebiraptor horridus, or the Naked Monkey Raptor is a hybrid organism created by GenenTech scientists on Isla Estafa. These hybrids are a frequent victim of underground Dinosaur/Cryptid trafficking due to their deadly and violent nature.

Genome

Monkey Raptor Genome
Species	Intended Traits	Resulting Traits
Velociraptor	General Body Plan Social Nature	High Intelligence Sharp Teeth and Talons Pack Behavior Aggression
Psittacosaurus	Placid and Docile Nature Softening of Velociraprorine weaponry (Teeth, claws etc.)	Facial Horns Tough Beak Back Quills
Naked Mole Rat	Resistance to Disease, Temperature, Lack of Food, Lack of Air, etc.	Resistance to Disease, Temperature, Lack of Food, Lack of Air, etc. Digging Skills Eusocial Nature and Caste System Pain Insensitivity Constantly-growing Incisors Wrinkled Skin
Dog (Golden Retriever)	Intelligence Friendlyness	Intelligence Pack Behavior Heterodont Teeth (Carnassals and Canines)
Tufted Capuchin	Grasping Hands Social Nature	Tool-using Intelligence Social Nature Grasping Hands Prehensile tail
Komodo Dragon	Retention of Reptilian features	Subdermal Armor Serrated Iron-coated Teeth Venom Parthenogenesis

History

The Heterocebiraptor were an attempt to make a small, marketable household pet using dinosaur DNA gone wrong. The first individual, a female retroactively dubbed 'The Matriarch' hatched in an Isla Estafa Embryonics Lab in June of 2009. Upon hatching a collective wave of disgust washed over the Research team tasked with creating the species, as the individual looked nothing like the projected results of the experiment.

Nevertheless, a lot of money had been put into the project so she was kept in an observation pen to monitor how the creature functioned. and see if it could possibly be used as a park attraction.

The specimen continued to grow and mature at a steady rate until it's mid-section began to balloon unexpectedly. At the time this worried her caretakers, as they feared something about her genetic make-up was causing catastrophic internal damage. However, these worries were replaced by an entirely new fear. She was pregnant with 14 infants.

Preparations to abort the fetuses were underway until John Beery, the project lead, interjected, saying that they'd be wasting money doing so. Instead he suggested that they allow the infants to be born and then sterilize them all after the fact.

This would ultimately prove disastrous, as the next day, the specimen could not be located in the holding pen, and after a thorough search it was found she had burrowed through 8-inches of solid concrete and had escaped out into the jungles of the island.

A few unsuccessful search parties were initiated in hopes of finding the specimen, until a search party was attacked by a Heterocebiraptor, and was forced to shoot and kill it. An autopsy proved that this was not the original specimen and was a near exact genetic copy, and so a child of the original.

A few more search parties were initiated, resulting in 3 more Monkey Raptors being killed, but the nest with the entire colony was never found.

Ultimately to Oklahoma City Incident thwarted any hopes of the Mesozoic Park Project coming to fruition, and Isla Estafa was mostly abandoned apart from a few researchers who opted to stay, and fund a small base out of their own pockets.

It was at this point the Monkey Raptors could be properly studied and the colonies nest was ultimately located. Using a remote camera to check the inside of the nest, the researchers found several hundred monkey raptors within, including the original specimen, who had bloated to 10 times the size of all the others, her abdomen squirming with even more gestating babies.

Reporting this information back to GenenTech HQ, John Beery sent a collection team to the island to capture as many Monkey Raptors as possible, where he then began selling the creatures off to various wealthy cryptid/wildlife traffickers.

Ecology and Behavior

Monkey Raptors are highly aggressive, dangerous pack predators. The colony must feed about once every 2-3 days, during which several scouts are sent out of the nest to search for suitable prey. This is when they are most vulnerable, lone scouts are frequently preyed upon by Acrocanthosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, Hatzegopteryx, Carnotaurus, Postosuchus and Utahraptor.

However once prey is located, the scout will return to the colony and lead them to the area the prey is located. At which point a swarm of up to 100 Monkey Raptors will make a beeline straight to the unfortunate animal.

Once the prey is located, the swarm will chase the prey and if they can reach it they will begin to climb atop it to scratch and bite it, injecting venom and burrowing into the flesh. Sometimes swarms can completely cover the prey animal dispatching it in mere minutes, where othertimes it may take 5 hours for an animal to succumb, at which point the carcass is dragged back to the nest. Oftentimes trailed by many predators in the area hoping to steal from the kill or pick off a lone member of the swarm.

Trivia

The name Heterocebiraptor horridus roughly translates to Horrible Different Monkey Thief in greek, though this is less of a descriptor of the actual creature and more of a portmanteau of the binomial names of several of the donor species.