Cave bear

### Size

1,6 meters tall (females) / 2,2 meters tall (males) / 2,2 meters long (females) / 3,4 meters long (males)

### Habitat

Mountain ranges and subterranean tunnel networks

### Canonicity

Canon

Name: Cave bear (ispolidae)

Residence: Wallace ii subterranean tunnel networks/mountain ranges

Behavior: highly territorial

Social system: patriarchal herds/broods

Size: females are 1.6 meters in height, males are 2.2 meters in height.

Cycle: Cathemeral

Prey: ispolidae are the respective apexes in their native environments, they eat all other fauna they can find in their biomes.

About: the ispolidae are a highly social pack hunter, they have developed in such a way that they have become the perfect predators that lurk in darkness.
- Their eyes are virtually blind and they depend on echolocation in the tunnel systems.
- A standard brood will consist of 1 male for every 7-8 females and one brood may hold an entire mountain as their territory.
- Females are the main hunters, their dome-shaped forehead acts as a high powered receiver for their pings.
- Males are stronger, built for fighting other males to claim mates, territory, and dominance over each other.

Anatomy: like all wallacean fauna, the ispolidae have 8 limbs; 2 feeding arms at the front, 2 load bearing arms, 2 legs that have regressed into a set of assisting limbs, and the hind legs. Each limb has 2 phalanges but multiple bones inside of each as they have conjoined over the previous generations.
 The cranium has a large calcium rich bone plate, it can sustain high speed impacts and falling rocks and remain unscathed.
 Their backs are lined with a series of pockets for nurturing their young.
 3 proboscis’ line the inside of the mouth, 2 for feeding and one for an ejection of hard to digest nutrients.
 The upper jaw has 2 pincers that are used for most activities.
 The feet have the ability to scale steep rock walls and vertical tunnels.
 2 receptors protrude out of the plate to recognize pressure changes and gases.

Breeding: during the winter the females will ovulate and lay a cluster of cue ball sized eggs, the males will then grab them with their forelegs and proceed to fertilize them and place the fertilized eggs in a pouch on a females back. The male will then use its central proboscis to vomit a cluster of nutrients that coalesce into a plaster to cover the recently occupied pouch. This will proceed until all holes are filled and or eggs run out, the bulls will continue to apply the plaster and often do not have enough to cover more than 10 female pouch clusters at which the beta male(s) will apply plaster but not fertilize eggs. The young will then feed on the plaster and develop their muscles to climb out. If a hole is not covered, it is at risk of smaller predators stealing the baby and/or infection. After the budding of the young (the time when young start walking on the ground rather than staying inside of a pouch) the adult male pouches will start to expand at which point the adolescent males will take residence in the bulls’ backs to mature further. The females will plaster the bull pouches with a more potent set of nutrients. The young will then grow into adulthood.