Asida

Naturally they are quadrupeds but waling on their hind legs is a show of high class and has become the norm. When on their hind legs they stand on average 4 feet tall, while on all fours they aren't quite a foot tall. Their skin is thick, coarse, and capable of holding water. An Asida can hold their their body weight in water in their skin and in the sacks around their necks. While "empty" the skin wrinkles and loosely fits and while full the Asida would look pudgy and it would be difficult to get a hold on them as their skin would be allowed to shift around a grasping force as, while full, the coarseness of the skin changes to being slick. While coarse and empty the outer layer of skin tears easily, allowing the skin to be grasped and torn away for predators to get away with while the Asida escapes with only a minor wound.

The Asida's head when looked at top down looks like a wedge but the point is beveled to being nearly rectangular. Their eyes are placed far backward and are large, giving them roughly 270 degrees of viewing, however they can often only focus out of one eye at a time, giving them a quite narrow line of clear sight. When both eyes focus forward its as if they have poor vision close, but much better vision further away. This ability to focus forward is a adaptation, their early history specifically says they cannot do this, but as they waged war with their predators they developed this ability. This does mean they can only see 3D in front of them as well.

The neck sacks on an Asida can be quite large and are the first place water is stored and the last place it drains from as it provides protection to their neck. Unlike the skin of an Asida these do not easily grow back and will not if the wound is large enough. While it is technically two sacks they are connected on the outside, only on the inside is there a lining that separates the two halves, each half also has inflow to the Asida's throat, allowing them to drink and supply the sacks directly. An Asida can survive losing both sacks but would need to plug the holes in its neck, thankfully the body is well calloused around these areas and its possible. However something that tears away the sacks of an Asida will very likely kill it.

Another example of adaptation are the Asida's hind legs, once they were much wider than they are now with 4 short toes, two to the front and one to each side, now their feet are much more narrow and the toes have spread out with the two on the side being nearly straight out to the side and much smaller while the two forward ones have gotten thicker and longer to help hold them upward.

As for their hands, it's mostly their fingers that have adapted, gaining a second joint and fine motor skills.

Asida have a tail, but depending on sub-species this may look quite different ranging from thin and nothing more than muscle to an extra place to store water and much more like the rest of their body. Some Asida grow feathers from their tails.