Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It enjoys playing in shallow water.

And look! It has grown fins, and likes to make bubbles in the water. It must be close to maturing.

Young dragons are relatively defenseless. They are born with relatively soft scales, which are shed and replaced with harder ones as the hatchling matures. Once a hatchling’s wings grow in, it typically marks the beginning of maturation. At this point they are often capable of hunting on their own and are usually left alone by their mother.

Ngoro is a lazy hatchling. She likes nothing better than to lie around on the sand all day, drinking in the sunshine and staring at the clouds. When she does venture into the water, it is usually only to bask there and occasionally to bat a lazy paw at a fish. She does seem to develop an odd kind of bravery whenever her friends are faced with danger, though; she has been known to attack roaming animals and even adult dragons to defend the other hatchlings. She has even defeated many of these adults using her extreme intellect. It is rumored, however, that if she ever went out to hunt properly instead of simply accepting whatever food generous adults offer her, she would grow up, but she claims "I don't want to grow up anyway, then I'd have to hunt and do work!"  Whether or not she is serious about this is debatable, considering her bravery when faced with true danger, but she certainly doesn't seem to want to change her life.