Guthix raptor
The Guthix Raptor, a level 70 summoning pet, is one of the three God birds. It can be hatched from a green bird's egg, and has three stages of growth: Chick, Bird, and Raptor. Unlike the other two god birds, it will not provide any protection in the God Wars Dungeon.
Bird's eggs can be obtained from Bird nests, which are dropped from a trees while Woodcutting or obtained from the Miscellania Kingdom Management activity. In either case finding an egg is quite rare. To hatch an egg, place it in a pet shop incubator (found in Yanille or Taverley), and then wait for an hour or two before retrieving your chick (time spent offline doesn't count).
Every two minutes, your pet's growth will increase by 0.5% (unless it's already a raptor) and its hunger will increase by 5.25% for chicks, 4.75% for birds and 4.1667% for raptors. Chicks must be fed Ground fishing bait while birds and raptors eat normal Fishing bait. It will take about six hours and forty minutes for a 0% chick to mature into a bird and further six hours and forty minutes for the bird to reach adulthood.
Having reached adulthood, the raptor may be placed in the Menagerie of your Player-owned house.
At level 80 Summoning you can understand the Guthix raptor.
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Trivia
- With the release of the menagerie on 18 August 2009, it is possible to have all three god birds at the same time. It used to be impossible to raise more than one god bird at a time; before this update, using another coloured egg with the incubator whilst having a Guthix raptor results in a message: "You already have that kind of that pet, you cannot have another."
- The examine info may be an allusion to the Monty Python "Dead Parrot" sketch, where the shopkeeper says that the bird has "lovely plumage."
- The chick's dialogue "Are you my mummy/daddy?" is a reference to the theory that egg baby animals bind themselves to the first thing they see when they hatch, regardless of whether this is an actual parent of theirs, or even the same species. This is known in Psychology as "imprinting."
- At level 80 Summoning you can understand the Guthix Raptor.
- The raptor resembles a real life macaw.
- The term "raptor", is a naturalists' term for a Bird of prey.
- Guthix raptors are a "balance" between Saradomin owls and Zamorak hawks, as both are different kinds of birds, but both are raptors, making the Guthix raptor a balance between the two. This is a symbol of their allegiance to Guthix, the god of balance.