Killa

Killaidae (common name, Killa) is the first family under Huma, and contains (depends on how many people add) genera, the first of which being Occidendum. according to the fossil record, and the first species being Occidendum occisor. The first genus discovered when colonist came to the planet is Killia, and the first species discovered is Killia Killia, and the first subspecies is Killia Killia Killia. Some genera and species are fully carnivorous, while most are omnivores filling up the same ecological niche as Bears on Earth, and a very small few have been completely herbivorous, but don't think just because they were herbivores they were harmless, no! They could still f\*\*\* you up to six ways from Sunday, we know this because there is one completely herbivorous species still alive today, and it's a threat to humans on the planet, it's called the murder panda (Occidendum pandam). The average lifespan depending on the species can range from 22 years to 42 years.

Anatomy

They have a dinosaur-like or crocodile-like snout filled with sharp teeth for eating meat, early clades of Killa have the exact same tooth all throughout their mouth, but later on some evolved specialized teeth used for many different purposes, just like synapsids, modern mammals, and some crocodylomorphs. Because of this evolutionary innovation, a lot of the earlier Genera began to decrease in number of species, and some early Genera went extinct entirely, the original Genus, Occidendum, only has five species alive today. Most have a normal tongue, but some species that fill out the same ecological niche as an anteater on Earth. just like the sloth bear on earth, has a long tongue, meant for eating the planet's equivalent to ants. They have nostrils instead of whisacles, their sense of smell is slightly stronger than an Earth bear because of the planet's slightly thicker atmosphere, they have to evolve a slightly stronger sense of smell to pick up anything. They have vision equal to that of Earth bears, their eyes are on slightly reduced un-retractable stalks. They hear through an internal hearing system. They walk on six legs, with one toe on the end of each foot, with a big claw on the end of each toe, most clades have the middle and back pairs of legs rotated 180 degrees, meaning like the echidna, their middle and back feet are backwards, but some have lost one pair of Limbs and only walk on four. The earliest clades had a sprawling posture, but later clades evolved a semi-erect posture, due to them getting bigger they needed a better posture to support themselves, and later on, even bigger clades evolved an erect posture, due to them getting even bigger they needed an even better posture to support themselves. Today the sprawling species still live, and erect species still live, but only one semi-erect species is still alive today. Some species have wider feet the normal, either used to help dig, or used to help them swim across bodies of water. Most have a fully functioning fully intact tail, but some have reduced tails like a bear. Most species and genera have bare skin, no integuments. But one clade (Gounaibianformes) to cope with the changing temperature of the planet developed hair-like filaments While others migrated down south towards warmer areas this clade decided to develop hair, evolved from their hearing system. This clade would later go on to evolve into the class Gounaibian. As for their internal organ layout, their digestive system works very similarly to that of a bear, the rest of their insides function the way you would expect, heart, lungs, etc.

Habitat

The types of habitats they lived in early on were the deep forest like a bear, and the swamplands, but over millions of years, they adapted to fill up other ecological niches, rainforest niches, grassland niches, and many other biomes, even the polar bear niche at one point. But that niche was only available to the ones that had hair, the ones with bare skin had to migrate down, but they could only go down ever so far because the mountains are in the way, if it wasn't for the continents coming together, giving them more places to go, all the Bare skinned ones would have gone extinct in the Ice Age. Today they can be found in forest and swamplands all around Omnisterra, they have been reduced back to their original ecological niches, due to other animals taking the other niches from them, and doing those niches better than they did. A few of the giant species can be found in the areas where grassland biomes and forest biomes meet.

Diet

As for their diet, most species are omnivores and have a very similar diet to most Earth bears, but some species are completely carnivorous, and one species is completely herbivorous. One species lives entirely on Hume ants.

Breeding

Unlike bears, most species mating season is not in autumn right before winter because unlike bears they still need to lay eggs, so they can't afford for their eggs to freeze over winter, they would Parish, so instead they're mating season is in the spring. The bare-skinned ones don't hibernate, they migrate to warmer areas because they can't afford to just hibernate in a cave, they don't have fur, they would freeze to death. Most of the year they are territorial animals and will attack others of their own kind if they wander into each other's area, but during The Mating Season, they make an exception. Some species will get straight into the action, others do a mating dance before the mating begins and if the mates don't like each other's dances they will move on, others have to bring a food offering before the mating starts, basically, buy me dinner first. The males have a penis inside their cloaca that they bring out to mate with. I don't need to explain how it works we all know. After mating, the mother will make a journey back to the same spot she grew up in, like a sea turtle, and she will lay her eggs there. After this, the mother will watch over them until they hatch, once they hatch the killies are on their own, and in some cases, the mother may eat her own Young. Except for two species, (Mitera dolofonos) and (Occidendum dente), Mitera dolofonos after mating, the mother will make a journey back to the same spot she grew up in, like a sea turtle, and she will lay her eggs there. After this, the mother will watch over them, and take care of them as they grow. She will only take care of them until they're about half her size, and then they're on their own. Depending on the species could take one year or three years. In (Mitera dolofonos) it takes them about two years.

Adaptations

Unless you count an aggressive attitude as an adaptation most don't have very many remarkable adaptations, except for the clades that have convergently evolved hair-like filaments all independently of each other, and the one herbivorous species has evolved the special gut to digest plant matter specifically.

Threats

the threats they have to face are mostly other ones of their own species wandering into their area, the ever-changing climate of the planet, and the recent encroachment of humans building cities, and pollution, those are the main stress that they face, oh and Sport hunting.

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalisaliena

Phylum: Xenochordata

Superclass: Cathibian

Class: Catus

Order: Catuses

Suborder: Huma

Family: **Killa**

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**Genera under Killa**

   Genera: Occidendum

    Clade: Gounaibianformes

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