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Indigo ice bear from planet Sapphire.

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Giant Tiger (Panthera tigris giganteus) 

Height: 8 ft tall at the shoulder 

Length: 15 ft from the nose to the tail tip 

Weight: Males are from 1,600-2,500 pounds while females are from 990-1,500 pounds. However, the biggest tigers can be up to 3,400 pounds. 



    The Giant Tiger is the biggest, most powerful big cat in Bakula, and are at the top of the food chain with nothing to fear. They have attained their great size for 3 reasons. One is Bergmann's Law, which states that animals in colder climates are larger than animals from warmer climates. The Giant Tiger's habitat is the Great Forest region, which is a huge expanse of conifer and temperate forest, and has freezing cold winters comparable to those in the Russian Far East. The second reason is the huge amount of prey in the region. They will eat animals like red deer, wild boar, roe deer, and fallow deer, but their diet mainly composes of massive animals like bison, aurochs, umakas, tarpans, moose, which is their favorite, young mastodons, ground sloths, bears, pretty much anything they can get their teeth and claws on. The third reason is the intense competition in the region. They coexist with leopards, Eurasian Lynxes, wild dogs called Gongers, weird cats called Krises, large pantherine cats called Kauas, Brown Bears, Asiatic Black Bears, and Short-Faced Bears. With their massive size, they are able to dominate their competitors, and the other predators, especially gongers, have a warning call for tigers. Their greatest rival is the Short-Faced Bear, which is the only predator in the region that can hold its own against tigers. However, they do avoid one another, and when a Short-Faced Bear bumps into a tiger on a carcass, it will just sit and wait for the tiger to finish, and then it will eat. Therefore, they follow tigers around, but not fight them. However, they will follow tigresses and juveniles around and take their kills when they get the chance unless she is a mother with cubs. When the 2 animals do fight however, the tigers are the ones that win most of the time, and when normal prey isn't plentiful, they include these bears on the menu. Giant tigers have developed more endurance muscle then their smaller cousins, allowing them to run longer. When they do hunt, they stalk really close to the prey, chase it, use their size and strength to get the prey on the ground, then crush the windpipe or break the neck. Male Tigers territory is larger than that of the female, so they overlap for access to each other. Despite their ferocity, they do have a more gentle side. They have developed a symbiotic relationship with the Bakulan Hunting Dog, which leads a tiger to prey with it's great sense of smell, the tiger gets the prey, and both have a meal. the tiger also protects the dog from other predators that would be more than happy to kill a dog.

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Green Polar Bear

Note: Credits to OldIndigoBjorn for this one

Length: 10 ft from nose to tail

Height: 5 ft at the shoulder, 15 ft tall when rearing up

Weight: Between 1,000-1,500 pounds on average, exceptionally large males can be 3,000 pounds.

Green polar bears are native to the northern tundra of Bakula, here, there are no trees for escape, and in the tundra, they face serious enemies. Cave Hyenas, Smilodons, wolves, and Homotherium, all of which are group hunters, so to deal with this, polar bears in Bakula have developed the ability to change color to blend in with the environmemt. "Clear" in winter, and green in summer. Not only that, but they also have a green tongue rather than the usual color. Their diet includes moss, lichen, seals, walruses, belugas, musk oxen, caribou, horse, and bison. They will go after a mammoth calf on occasion, but this is rare due to the social structure of mammoths. Once more, males have nothing to do with raising cubs, mothers typically have 1-2 cubs, but sometimes can have 3. Despite being native to the tundra, now many of them are on the move to the great forest, why? poaching. With no armed rangers around, animals here are fair game, and with much poaching pressure on polar bears, this has made them seek refuge in the great forest, and the greystone region. They haven't settled in the Tobar mountains as there isn't as much food there. With this migration, they face serious competition. In greystone, they must deal with brown bears and dowmans. In the great forest, their biggest rivals are the short-faced bears, giant tigers, and massive brown bears. Giant tigers and short-faced bears win in most confrontations with the polar bears, and it isn't uncommon for a brown bear to chase a polar bear off a kill, so it comes as no surprise that polar bears are rare in the great forest. In greystone they're more common, but not as they were in the tundra before poachers came along. In other words, Green polar bears are an endangered species.

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Bakulan Short-Faced Bear


Height: 6 ft tall at the shoulder, 12 ft tall when rearing up.

Length: 8 ft long

Weight: Males are from 1,000 to 2,500 pounds, females are from 990 to 1,500 pounds. The heaviest one recorded was 3,380 pounds.

The Bakulan Short-Faced Bear is the direct descendant of Arctodus, and like it's ancestor, this animal is a giant, big enough to rival the Giant Tiger, the only predator in the great forest that can successfully fight off one of these bears. However, both animals try to avoid conflict when prey is plentiful. Unlike other bear species, Bakulan Short-Faced Bears are pure carnivores, and aren't afraid to hunt ground sloths, aurochs, bison, and umakas. Despite this however, like their ancestor, they can only run in a straight line, and if they made a sharp turn, they would break a leg. So what they do most of the time is use their size and power to take kills from other predators. The predator they really like to follow is the Gonger, Bakula's wild dog, the reason for this is because of all the predators of the great forest, gongers have the highest success rate, therefore, they make more kills, and in a confrontation, the bear doesn't even need to fight, just walk right in and take the carcass. Another animal that like to follow gongers around is the Kris, which is perhaps the weirdest cat in Bakula. However, there is rarely any conflict between these animals, and it's not uncommon for them to share a carcass, as the bear, unlike the tiger, doesn't view the smaller cat as a competitor. When is comes to eating a carcass, the short face actually comes in handy, the reason for that is because the canines are much closer to the fulcrum, and therefore, much easier to get a huge bone to the back of the jaw to crack it. When it comes to the cubs, mothers do most of the work, but unlike the rest of the bears, male Bakulan Short-Faced Bears are actually good fathers, and often visit their cubs and play with them, and also teach them lessons of survival, and when needed, protects them from enemies. During the salmon run, these bears don't catch their own salmon, but they take salmon away from brown bears that caught them.

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Bakulan Green Bear

Length: 6 ft long

Height: 4.5 ft tall at the shoulder, 10.5 ft tall when rearing up

Weight: Males are 800-1,300 pounds while females are 750-985 pounds


The Bakulan green bear is a subspecies of brown bear that's hazel in color normally, but also has a mutation that allows some to be green, hence the name. The green bears have an advantage, as with their green pelt, they can hide better from their larger enemies. Those that aren't green are more aggressive, and must fight to defend themselves, although they aren't always successful, but they are known to chase off larger bears at times. Their diet includes berries, carrion, roots, large herbivores like bison, and salmon during the salmon run. However, they aren't the only bears at the rivers as Short-Faced Bears go there to take salmon from them. However, they will kill short-faced bear cubs when they get the chance, as this wil mean less thieves during the salmon run. The animal they fear the most is the Giant Tiger, which includes them in their diet as well as take kills from them, and green bears try their best to avoid them, but it is important to know that some green bears have been known to chase some tigers off. Like it's relatives, males have nothing to do with their raising cubs, in fact they will kill cubs that aren't there's at all. They have a large shoulder hump of muscle, and along with their long claws, they can flip over boulders, rip open logs, and kill smaller animals with a single blow.

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Japanese green bear preparing for battle.

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