Lore & Rules

## **Kuma**

**Height**: 3’6” Male 4’ Female

**Weight**: 130 kg Male 190 kg Female

**Lifespan**: 7 Years

**Diet**: Large and medium prey and fish

### **Origin of Name**

Kuma is Hausa for “same to you”. This was chosen because of how easily their DNA can be spliced with species from earth. Such splicing can result in main features from the other species being added to the base species.

### **Appearance and Personality**

Kuma are a stocky build with a boxy muzzle. All kuma have a long tail with long fur at the end, fluffy cheeks, and pointed fuzzy ears. However kuma can develop mutations that add various manes and leg fluff or change the shape of parts or length/colour of fur. All kuma are naturally coloured unless mutated. Common colours being off blacks and whites, greys, browns, oranges, reds, greyish blues and greyish lavanders. Kuma can have any coloured eyes but their sclera is black.

Kuma are pack creatures and are territorial. Once a kuma is of age they will leave their pack to join another pack. In order to join a pack there are diffrent requirements based on the kuma’s sex. Males will have to change and kill one of the alpha’s. Females must prove their hunting skills by successfully hunting a large animal on their own. Once officially part of the pack, males will protect the den’s and care for the kits while the females hunt and protect their territory.

### **Habitat**

Kuma naturally live in the forest, plains, and mountainous domes. Kuma most commonly live in the forest dome. The forest dome is mainly an evergreen forest with some taiga in spots. Kuma tend to make their dens in abandoned burrows making them larger. In the plains, kuma live in the speckled forests throughout the dome. Dens there are often in clearings in the forests. Lastly in the mountains they live in the caves near the forests.

Outside the wild kuma are often taken by the super intelligent aliens of the planet to be experimented on. These kuma spend their days in mini biome rooms and in the outside paddock. The aliens will put them to sleep while transporting them to the labs and back. Many of the DNA combos are still unknown and are being tested. Some can cause things like antlers, fins, or spikes all varying on the animal. Oftentimes after being spliced a kuma will be far more intelligent and be able to escape.

### **Mating and Reproduction**

Commonly a male will reproduce with several females at once until they find their soulmate. The connection between two soulmates is very sacred. When this happens the male will paint his bride staining their fur. However it’s not uncommon for a dominate female to paint her groom or for the pair to be the same sex. Once bonded the pair will no longer desire to reproduce outside of themselves and will be loyal for life. While a female is still looking for her soulmate she may end up having a litter of kits with two males at the same time. Litter sizes can range from two to five kits, smaller being most common. A female can breed once every forty five days.

When breeding mutations sometimes happen. Most common mutations will cause different lengths of fur on their cheeks, necks/heads, and legs. Other common mutations cause different shaped muzzles, ears, and tails. If the kumas are too closely related it may cause the pups to be born with missing or extra body parts. It may also cause various pigmentation mutations such as albinism, melanism, pseudo, amelanism, piebaldism, and heterochromia. These mutations can happen even if the kuma aren’t related at all but are far less common.

For more information please read - Breeding

### **Life Cycle**

Kuma are born solid colour and slowly gain their markings within the first few weeks. It takes a year and a half for a kuma to fully mature(11 days for real life time). By age 2 a kuma will leave their original pack in search for a new one. Female kuma are capable of having kits until they are 5-6 years old. By old age, younger matured kuma will care for the elderly. The average lifespan is 7 years but some kuma have lived to be 10.

**Rules**:

1. You may make your kuma any natural colour with the exception of mutated variants(Ex a blue tiger), darker than the listed black or lighter than the white. Unnatural colours are uncommon and pigment mutations very rare.
2. Please do not make kuma’s without a myo.
3. There is a week cooldown on trading/gifts/re-sales
4. If you owe others a breeding you can not trade/gift/sell that kuma until the breeding happens. You may however transfer the kuma to the person you're owing as long as it's not multiple people at a time.
5. You may void your kuma if you want, however you must change the anatomy enough that they are not recognizable as a kuma. You can not reinstate your kuma but if someone new receives them they are able to for free. All we ask is for proof of transfer such as a toyhouse log or chat screenshots.