Snapjawed Bulborb

The Snapjawed Bulborb is a species of grub-dog that moves by hopping and can move quickly while heading forwards.

=In fanon games=

In Pikmin: Infinite Exploration
The Snapjawed Bulborb, in Pikmin: Infinite Exploration, is a medium-sized grub-dog bearing saber teeth, long, slender legs, and a long, thin snout with a bulbous tip. Its face is tan, and its backside is orange with tan spots. Its sclerae are deep yellow and its pupils are verticle and slit-shaped. The eyestalks of the Snapjawed Bulborb are thin and tall, giving it the farthest range of vision of any grub-dog. Due to the form of its legs, a Snapjawed Bulborb must jump to move around, and can only make small steps to reorientate itself. It is extremely fast when it moves but is unable to make sharp turns.

When a Snapjawed Bulborb is within range of prey, it will lunge forward at an increased speed and at a lower arc, if it misses its target it will slide chin-first on the ground for a moment before getting back on its feet and snarling in frustration. The longer the Snapjawed Bulborb moves in a straight path while in pursuit, the faster it becomes, until it either has to turn, in which case it will skid if it is moving fast enough, or it is within range of its target, in which case it lunges forward. Similar to the Whiptongue Bulborb, the Snapjawed Bulborb can be found roaming a small territory when it is idle. However, if a Snapjawed Bulborb spots prey, it will pursue them as far as it is able to spot its target. If the Snapjawed Bulborb loses track of its target it will hop to a nearby patrolling spot and will go back to idly hopping around until it spots prey again. A Snapjawed Bulborb may have many different spots laden about the area. If there is already another Snapjawed Bulborb occupying a patrolling spot, then the Snapjawed Bulborb that is searching for a spot will move to the next closest spot until it can find one that isn't occupied. Some spots can be occupied by up to three Snapjawed Bulborbs at a time.

Two weaknesses that can be capitalized on are the Snapjawed Bulborb's inability to make sharp turns, and its rather long delay when getting up from a failed lunge attack. Attacking its eyes may prove tricky without the use of Yellow Pikmin or Winged Pikmin. Also, it is unable to lethally attack anything that goes under its legs, but it will attempt to swipe with its feet to get anything under or on its legs away from it. It will be temporarily unable to move if there is at least one Purple Pikmin latched on to each of its legs.