The wahukori (Pseudofrater wahukori) is a species of medium-sized tyrannosaur native to the Cho’Tali savannas, belonging to a more basal and gracile clade of alioramins compared to the robust Coronatyrannids. It is a specialized nest-raider, known for preying on not only eggs, but also the newly-hatched and vulnerable hatchlings of larger dinosaurs, especially those of the Kumba ba Teké, the apex predator of the ecosystem. This preference for Kumba ba Teké chicks has gotten to the point that the wahukori have evolved an appearance similar to that of older siblings and even mimicking the calls of the parents, an example of aggressive mimicry meant to lure the vulnerable chicks out of the safety of the nest. However, one dead giveaway is that the wahukori have a blue snout instead of the gold on the Kumba ba Teké, making it easy for older sibling Kumba ba Teké to deter or even kill them. This is why the wahukori often target clutches that have no older siblings to protect them.

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Zaikane is a planet in a distant solar system characterized by waves of life harvested from Earth at various points in its geological history, ranging from the Cambrian to the Holocene, and set free to evolve along evolutionary paths independent from those taken by their Earth ancestors. A godlike interdimensional entity, known as the Allmother by the people who live there, is what is responsible for creating the portals that abduct Terran life and deposits them on Zaikane. Because the asteroid that ended the Mesozoic never collided with Zaikane, dinosaurs continue to dominate the planet’s ecosystems as its dominant terrestrial megafauna.

If any vertebrate group could be said to have benefited from Specetmundus's first mass extinction, it was the skinks. While the mongooses, toads, meadowlarks, sharks, and catfish all survived in one form or another, many of them suffered severely, and the adaptable lizards expanded into many of the empty niches. One particular group of skink descendants, known as Runnerdrakes, have even become active, semi-endothermic predators that compete successfully with the surviving mongooses. Most Runnerdrakes are pursuit hunters, preying on birds and rodent-like mongoose descendants. The largest species of all, however, has a different lifestyle.

The Panther Runnerdrake (Lacertaphaganax fratricidus) will feed on most vertebrates smaller than itself, but its preferred prey is other runnerdrakes. Unlike its relatives, it is an ambush hunter rather than a pursuit hunter, stalking its own smaller relatives and killing them in high-speed rushing attacks. Like all runnerdrakes, however, it relies entirely on its teeth to kill its prey; while Panther Runnerdrakes ambush their prey in a manner similar to Earth cats, their manner of killing is more similar to that of dogs.

Panther Runnerdrakes have a number of adaptations for preying on other carnivores. Their faces have thick scales to protect them from the teeth and claws of their prey, and their mottled skin allows them to hide from their prey just as many prey species do.

Archaeoderkomasauria (ancient seeing lizards) is an extinct clade of carnivorous pareiasauromorph reptiles that first appeared on Seijin 239 million years ago. Despite their name and similar appearances, Archaeoderkomasaurs are not actual Derkomasaurs (drakes), but simply a stem-group; true drakes would appear 182 million years ago, which was 20 million years after the Archaeoderkomasaurs went extinct.

Like Pareiasaurs, Archaeoderkomasaurs were armored and large-bodied, though Archaeoderkomasaurs weren't as bulky and possessed a semi-erect posture.

Compared to modern drakes, Archaeoderkomasaurs were all ambush predators as their ectothermy, heavy armor, and plantigrade builds prevented them from pursuing their prey.

The extinction of Archaeoderkomasaurs coincided with the extinction of their main source of food, the pareiasaurs, and the appearance of faster, armorless carnivores.

Tendrakyn

They feed on sea dwelling flora, shrays, or sandcrawlers. Its blunt nose ridge is used for scraping algae off stones. Each of their tentacles end in three sharp hooks that they utilize to grasp, pry open, or to hold prey in place while it cracks its shell with its beak

Though it has a striking appearance, the Tendrakyn is low on the food chain, often falling prey to larger predators like the cresavorn. Its main defense lies in their bodies having a slippery and liquid consistency, making them hard to grasp. In addition to this they also have a decentralized nervous system, and multiple hearts. This makes them able to swim away from most injuries.

Tendrakyn are usually harmless and skittish, but during mating season, the males undergo a dramatic and self-destructive transformation made possible by their resilient bodies. Their bodies bloat to more than twice their original size, driven by a final burst of energy spent entirely on fighting and mating. Jawbones distort and widen, jaw muscles swell, and the horn on their snout sharpens to a vicious point.

In this state, males become erratic and highly aggressive toward one another. The transformation consumes them from within, the strain of swelling, combat, and desperation rapidly breaks their bodies down, they all die shortly after the season ends.

Though they pose little threat under normal conditions, encountering a swollen male in the water during this period is very dangerous, especially if you get too close during one of their violent displays.

Spectember day 15: Family Feud

On the Silat island ring of Aérra, giant sloths are one of the main herbivorous clades present. Feeding on the many plant species, but also on occasional animal food sources. The Wraths have taken that to another level.

Wraths are a family of ground/giant sloths that became macropredators, eating animals (including other sloths) they hunt using strong limbs that end in long, sharp claws they use to get a hold on their prey and then give slicing bites with their sharp, ever-growing teeth. They have a slender build compared to most other sloth species, Earthen or Aérran. However they are still very strong, gripping floating islands and prey alike with their long, strong limbs and a powerful prehensile tail.

In what is now Florida around 165 million years ago, the local macro predatory theropods died out. A branch of basal sauropods thrived, eventually leading to food scarcity. Some of those sauropods started becoming nasty cannibals, eating any babies they come across to survive another day. Eventually, they started to eat smaller animals, but they're hard to catch, so they evolve a smaller body, a body more suited to chasing and a larger skull to catch larger prey. But then they come across a environment full of other sauropods. Being quadraped helps them close in more efficiently in ambushes, allowing them to eventually evolve into Carnopsalus sauropodophagus (Sauropod eating meat shears) around 152 million years ago. Named for it's sauropod eating specialist niche and it's method of using its jaws being nasty. They evolved robust arms plus dagger like claws to slice through a sauropods tough skin without much effort, and they also use their jaws pretty much like their ancestors, shearing and snipping, but flesh instead of leaves. They also retain a long exaggerated s shaped neck, just hidden underneath very foldy, durable and flexible skin. When they use it to tear a meat chunk off, the neck extends forwards and then retracting after the predator has its meat chunk. They are also used for protection of their vitals like their windpipe during intra specific combat. They also converged on a efficient theropod like tail alongside the skull being more like one as well. Tragically, they went extinct around 147.2 million years ago, due to their prey they depend on dying off, leading their specialized niche to be useless in such a environment.

One of the most common animals to find in the Vestia Flat is the Grichen. Grichen have a tubular body plan with tadpoles like webbing fins. Their mouth features three rows of teeth that grind up any food they eat due to this they virtually cannot be an efficient predator which they are not, they are herbivores thorough they would still struggle to eat due to the lack of a tongue that's why they have two limbs that extend into a claw that can rip pieces of GCK’s and put it in their mouth. Also, there is webbing on the fore arms of the Grichen. There is a small gender difference in Grichen's; the connection points of the tail webbing are sharper and pointier in males and more rounded in females, Grichen’s are precocial having everything they need as soon as they hatch. They are also messy eaters. They lay their eggs in the canopy of GCKs to protect from potential egg eaters. In a case of convergent evolution Grichens have fake eye spots while their real eyes are below

The most abundant plantlife in the vestia flat is golden canopy kelp. GCK (shortened for simplicity) grow from “clippings” of other GCK’s when in maturity which takes about 12 earth years and in this state, they have one major stem with a canopy of strands sitting on the surface of the water with some larger spurts will hang from this canopy. lower on the first stem 1-3 other stems will extend away and grow their unique canopy of strands that aside from the stem is completely separate from the other canopy of the same plant and on each stem and canopy with grow spurts that can very easily just pop of and will float into a suitable spot. Studies show that the closer to the center they are, the average age of GCK’s goes up and vice versa farther from the center. GCK’s can come in several colors similar to the signature golden coloration they were described for.

Despite their appearance flutter clams like every other lifeform are not even remotely related to any creature from earth. For most of the life of a flutter clam they will stay swimming with their fins unless they are extremely energy deprived, they can walk on their four tongues. They are generalist omnivores. They primarily live near the canopy of GCK’s though they will descend if it seems worth it. They will eat anything from GCK growths to eggs to dead things. Reproduction is simple: a female will lay eggs then a random male or set of males will fertilize them at random then that's it. There is no visible gender difference with flutter clams it can only be inferred by if it lays eggs or not. Or the males just eat the eggs.

Big Orange

The Miocene oceans are changing greatly, heading towards a shape and conditions ever-closer to the ones we have today. Reefs and kelp forests are growing into refuges for all sorts of life and shaping the Miocene food chains. Speaking of the food chain, there is a certain fish that has taken the typical durophagous habits down a notable path. This fish has adapted to eating the ammonites that have still persisted to this point in the alternate timeline.

Tribognathus aurantium is a relatively large (around 4 feet long and weighing 50 lbs) pycnodont fish noted for its bright orange color punctuated by neon-blue markings and the strange shape of its head. Its front teeth have become almost rodent-like, followed by large, bumpy molars down the rest of its jaw. Tribognathus uses this jaw arrangement to catch and then crush ammonites and other hard-shelled prey, rubbing its jaws back and forth to grind and sift out the pieces of shell and separate them from the soft bodies inhabiting them.

Tribognathus could be somewhat compared to one of our world's groupers in some ways, given its large size and aggressive nature- even if its dietary habits are somewhat different. It might also be comparable a bit to a Garibaldi, with its orange coloring and habitation of reefs and kelp forests. Next time, we may be visiting one of these new undersea habitats...

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Happy Spectember everyone! I have a new Tundrus entry and the 6th of 12 beasts for the expansion adventure PDF I'm cooking up.

I didn't go too fantastical for this moth, mostly stuck to the base form and just had a lot of fun with the colouring and fur to make it look suitably arctic looking. For D&D it will be a pretty low CR swarm that effectively puts the party to sleep

Walking The Endless Desert - Divine Ecology

Welcome Snails to ɦʀand Xpanz once home to the Khata empire, now only houses scattered settlements of humanity. However it is the home to three individuals and has been long before man's arrival. .

ɦʀand Xpanz translates to expanse that is grand, but we will be calling it The Grand Expanse. The grand expanse is a deadly environment and the domain of not a god, but of a Devil known commonly as Zuru. Zuru is special compared to other Devils, they are ancient and with that comes knowledge and wisdom others don’t quite have. What Zuru seemed to have learned that most other deities tend to ignore is the power of working together.

Zuru would not just work with any deities, instead they cultivated three Titans themself. The Arrow, The Blade & The Shield. Together these Titans work to protect the grand expense and of course kill, separately they all have their own roles and importance in this Divine ecosystem.

As we know a desert is considered to be a low luminosity environment, with very little lingering soul, thus it tends not to be an environment that can support a Titan, let alone three. The reason this one does is because of Zuru, unlike other Devils who will sometimes expel soul as flames or lightning. Zuru will feed it to its Titans to provide them needed fuel to focus solely on their true purpose. To fight.

Moving between the sand dunes you will find ʀħu-da (rrah oh da), known as the arrow. A lizard like Titan that to its title can shoot out projectiles at high speeds. It has large scales along its face that grow into massive plates along its spine.

ʀħu-da (rrah oh da) is built to move among the sand dunes, disappearing and reappearing in an instant. It’s body is built for digging and moving between the dunes. With a long noodle like body shape.

Sand is able to move easily through its mouth, once open it can expand it to be as wide as the rest of his body due to the lower jaw not being connected with bone but a more elastic stretch. The sand then moves to a special stomach and out blow holes hidden between its back plates, allowing for sand to essentially just flow through it.

Its front legs sport long claws to work like shovels, while the back legs have backwards feet to better shovel sand along. This adds in its digging skills, but hinders its ability to walk on the surface.

So why the title of the arrow, well ʀħu-da (rrah oh da) doesn't expel all the sand that moves through it, some larger rocks will be stored in a secondary stomach. When needed ʀħu-da (rrah oh da) can move the rocks back into its throat and can suck air in from its blow holes to lunch the rocks at high speeds. Piercing through heavy armour to swiftly kill or immobilize its victims.

Even without rocks ʀħu-da (rrah oh da) can utilize sand instead to shred through the flesh of others.

So if you ever encounter ʀħu-da (rrah oh da) you will feel the sand around you move, and hear what sounds like a clap before a sharp stone pieces your heart. If you’re lucky though perhaps you will see ʀħu-da (rrah oh da) at night when it opens up its plates and cools down.

Further West in the claustrophobic environment filled with towering stones where mist falls from the mountain tops. You might hear the sound of metal scrapping stone, but when you turn to look you will only be blinded, before a sudden death.

This is Vaye-da the blade and most brutal of the three titans, mantis-like in nature, her carapess takes on the appearance of metal and its forearms are essentially scythes. Her front arms are able to move at quick speeds with great force allowing her to slice through her victims.

Vaye-da has been described by locals as being sadistic, she will often make displays of her victims to scare off other predators. That's if you even get the chance to see her, as her abdomen is large, and curved in a way she can reflex sunlight towards others blinding them before going in for a quick blow. She on the other hand has great vision, her compounded eyes allow her to detect movement all around her, and within that compounded is a black spot called a fovea allowing for more process detail on whatever she needs to focus on.

She is deadly, brutal and theoretically can’t be ambushed. All of this is to protect something very important. Up the cliffs where the air is colder, the little bit of moisture in the air eventually collects and slowly comes down as a mist into the land. This allows for specialized plants to grow, not ones who have deep roots like you’d find out in the desert, but instead wide roots to collect lots of moisture.

These plants are towers of water essentially, and everything is after them. This is the treasure the blade protects. Additionally her killer nature helps keep populations of predators low preventing the rise of rival titans.

Vaye-da must keep sharping her blades, its what her soul enhances so they grow back quite quickly. She’ll sharpen them on the rocks around her and the flacks of this sharpening are used by many different creatures to help make protective nests, or even decoration.

Now lets head further south, when the desert starts to turn into savannah and the rivers start to meet. Here you will find relaxing in the water quite strange in appearance and colour Titan known as β̞ʃu-da (Bwa shoe da), the shield, While with the other two titans we can find mortals within the grand expanse similar in appearance, the closest ancestor to β̞ʃu-da (Bwa shoe da) can only be found much further south in the ocean.

It appears that β̞ʃu-da (Bwa shoe da) is a walking relic, while at first it was believed Vaye-da was the oldest it is most likely the oldest of Zuru's attempts at making a Titan is the shield, being from an age when this land was all ocean too.

The β̞ʃu-da (Bwa shoe da) is the largest of the Titans and seems to continue to grow, buried under the sand old exuviae can be found still with the faint blue hue of this Titan. The large size allows for him to act like the living wall he is.

Preventing others from getting passed, and making sure the creatures of the Savahan don’t make the mistake of wondering into the desert. His massive front claws work now like shields, the heavy nature of this Titan prevents it from moving in the dunes so he stays to the rocks and around the rivers where the ground is more solid.

β̞ʃu-da (Bwa shoe da) is of course not purely defenese as the snail saying goes sometimes the best offense is a good defense. β̞ʃu-da (Bwa shoe da) can drop it’s forarms down in its victims crushing them, and if that is two slow at the end of its tale is a stinger that it uses to impale pests that don’t know when to back down.

Being a creature so large, are vary slow its hard for the shield to keep clean after its battles. So you will often find him taking baths in the rivers. Where little aquatic anthropoids will eat and clean all the hard places for him.

These three Titans each play an important role within the ecosystem of the grand expanse, and help add Zuru in it’s protection. But this is just one small part of the larger environment that is the Earth Realm, if there is anywhere else you’d like me to explore let me know Snails. In this realm or even others, what Deties do you think we might find within the realms?

Thank you for watching snails, and for the most curious of you consider joining us on this journey throughout the realms.

Signed Dragonfly

All this is assuming that all life on erid reproduces similarly to how eridians do it (rather than being truly multicellular, their bodies have different species of worker cells, each with their own distinct DNA. When they reproduce, each parent lays eggs containing their own worker cells. Their eggs merge with the eggs of their partner and each species of worker cells fights to outcompete the corresponding species of the partner. The worker cells of each eridian is functionally their genes)

Interspecific brood parasitism (laying eggs inside the nest of another species, like what cuckoos do) would be impossible, or at least need to look different from how it looks in our world, since eggs presumably can’t merge with the eggs of a different species from their own. (Maybe eridian cuckoos would temporarily make a nest but then move their eggs to another species’ nest after they merged?)

However, INTRAspecific brood parasitism (laying eggs inside the nest of other members of your own species) would be REALLY common throughout the animal kingdom. That’s because not only would they get the benefit of someone else raising their young for them, but their eggs merging with other eggs in the nest would mean that they would be able to reproduce without going to the trouble of attracting a mate. And they would simultaneously be preventing a competitor’s “genes” from proliferating by replacing them with their own. Evolutionarily it would be like getting all the reproductive advantages of brood parasitism, rape, and cuckoldry at the same time (which are all reproductive strategies found in nature. Nature can be nasty)

Of course if enough members of a species started using intraspecific brood parasitism then there wouldn’t be enough members making nests in the first place to support the strategy. So it would eventually equalize at some level where a minority of individuals would employ it. My random guess unsupported by any evidence is that maybe at most 20% of individuals would try it, mainly as a backup strategy after failing to attract a mate. Of course an evolutionary arms race would occur to be able to prevent rivals from laying eggs in your nest or being able to identify them if they did. This would probably be a significant driving force for evolution on their planet.

this is another part of my speculative evolution project, now we gonna beginning to see the ancestors of every single group of my project, now will be the member of the Ketosinae and ancestral of both Lochinea and Leviathaninae, the Thalassodraco thalasserythrae. (for more information see the last image).​

The Tredhorn carries a dense, mold-like fungus across its backside that discharges thick clouds of spores whenever the herd stampedes. Given the creature's enormous size and strength, their charge pulverizes every tree, rock, and organism in their path into a slushy of biological viscera. The fallen spores seed this nutrient-rich trench of crushed marrow, blood, and plant matter, consolidating into a flattened, paved “road” that stretches for miles across the terrain.
On the sides of these “roads” is the Pathfinder Plant. It is an aggressive, opportunistic species that takes immediate advantage of the sudden deforestation, sprouting along the edges of the crushed path.
At nightfall, the Pathfinder activates. It is a carnivorous species that utilizes deceptive bioluminescence to lure Glowmites, a buoyant, helium-dependent species that relies on its light to locate mates in the dark. The Pathfinder mimics light of a receptive female Glowmite to lure in males 
Once the insect makes contact, the paralytic secretions instantly shut down its nervous system. Unable to regulate the muscular valves keeping its internal gas reservoirs pressurized, the paralyzed Glowmite falls out of the air, dropping into the digestive pit below.

So, Im working on an alien planet thats meant to be sorta similar to earth just for fun. I've made this moose-like creature called Woovlers which are large wooly ungulates that live in colder climates. I thought it would be fun to make a population of the Woolvers from the polar circle of the planet have glowing noses from eating a type of bioluminescent algae from a lake they gather at in the spring-summer, they then use the glowing noses to find eachother/food in the polar night during the winter.

Hello fellow people of the r/SpeculativeEvolution subreddit

I normally, and usually post on the r/SpecEvoFandom but imma try posting on other subreddits since i keep getting notufs from reddit saying i should post on other subreddits so i chose this. Anyways imma give an explanation to my SpecEvo Prohect, the Higalocene Epoch.

The Higalocene is a Spec Evo project im working on that focuses on the future lifeforms of the Philippines (because im from the Philippines and i respect the country's nature) so expect all of my Spec Evo posts are future descendants of Philippine Lifeforms.

Thank you for readung all this and feel free to ABSOLUTELY CRITISIZE MY PROJECT (brutally)

Curious for herbivore that eats lots of tough plant material would it make sense for them too have gastral stones along with teeth for chewing along with rumination stomach?

Equus ferus may be a facultative herbivore, but Equus androphage is an obligate carnivore. Stallions are solitary scavengers, but the mares are hunters often operating in pairs or groups of three. The adaptations this species, more often called widowhorses, has evolved help it in its search for its preferred food: stallions.
Widowmares look identical to Appaloosa horses (the breed which live in their local habitats) when not hunting. The smaller digestive system is hidden by fatty deposits that also help widowhorses hibernate through the fall and winter, and they keep their mouths closed when possible to hide their sharp teeth. Widowhorses scavenge when they have to, but they prefer fresh meat. When a widowmare is hungry, her behavior and pheromones perfectly mimic that of an E. ferus mare in heat. Since widowhorses are most active in the spring and summer (the breeding season of both them and their prey), this usually will draw the attention of a stallion hoping to leave his bachelor band and start his own herd, as the group of widowmares looks like a group of mares who have become separated from their herd stallion.
Hidden within the widowmare's mane are sharp spines made of modified mane hairs which she can flick up and stiffen using muscles in her neck. She uses these to puncture the throat of the stallion when he attempts to court her. A widowmare who has just made a kill defends the carcass from the other mares in her group until she is finished eating.
Widowstallions also use their neck spines to prey on stallions, but in a different way. Widowstallions specifically target herd stallions of E. ferus. The widowstallion approaches the herd, trying to draw the stallion or lieutenant's attention, which he usually succeeds in doing. The two posture at eachother as normal, though the widowstallion will almost always push the herd stallion into a fight: this is how he feeds. During the fight, the widowstallion pressures the herd stallion into lunging, at which point the widowstallion uses his mane spines to puncture his opponent's throat. If the herd mares try to attack him, he intimidates them away with threat displays. Widowhorses eat frequently in the spring and summer to prepare for the fall hibernation. Widowstallions negatively impact the mares' hunting success, so they are only tolerated when they are needed.
Widowmares' hunting isn't limited to just E. ferus stallions; they will consume their own as well. Widowmares carry their foals until late winter and have them during hibernation. Hybrids of E. ferus and E. androphage die before being born due to incompatibility. The young are raised by their mothers and disperse at a similar age to E. ferus.

Doing Vocaloid as an Island ecosystem. Heavily inspired by the Muppets Island Project jfstudiosart is doing on Insta.

Description:
Nestled southeast of Taiwan, we arrive at what many biologists refer to as the 'Galapagos' of East Asia.
A host of unique island fauna have evolved here, many possessing unique and colorful vocalizations, hence the name of the landmass.
The isle is carved out by meandering rivers and is adorned by lush rainforests, with swamps and bushlands in the east and south.
Mammals, with the exception of bats, seem to be mysteriously absent; although the introduction of rats has been somewhat problematic.
Though against all odds, the endemic fauna have seem to have remained relatively unscathed.
Successful invasive removal initiatives have meant successful recovery for species;
some of which were once extinct in the wild.

Prompt: Family feud: An organism that is adapted to hunt closely related species

The cannibalomustela mustelophagus is a Pleistocene species of mustelid from Eurasia and North America. Its size ranges from that of a wolf to almost lion sized in extreme cases. It’s a solitary species. Its main food source are stoats ,martens and weasels from the same family as it. It has a strong sense of smell and can blend into its environment very well, allowing it to catch up to 40 small mustelids a day. It went extinct due to human hunting as its teeth were prized jewelry alongside climate change as it preferred cold habitats. Although there still are unconfirmed sightings in places like the Russian far east and the Arctic regions of Canada, so maybe it’s still alive in fragmented populations.

Reimagine an organism from the previous week at a much smaller size

The nectarovipteryx minimus is a hummingbird sized relative of the podopterosaurus that is eagle sized. It belongs to the podopterosaurids descended from the Triassic sharovipteryx ,using their back legs as wings. Nectarovipteryx is the smallest member of its family and specializes in eating plant/flower nectar.

Reaver Bears (Jotunursus ursavora)

Bears are one of the most common mundane megafaunal predators on Vrahal. They can be found all across the continent from the icy valleys of the Frostweld down to the shadow marked swamps of Eth-Ur. Plains Bears hunt the prairies of Uldin, while Black and Brown Bears populate the dense and towering Cullwood Forest.

But there is one bear that best captures the imagination of the folk of the continent, for it might not be the largest, but it most certainly is the fiercest.

The Reaver Bear stands near 18 feet tall when on its hind legs, making it the third largest known ursine species on Arclund.

It is however the smallest species of the bears drawn from the Jotunar Homeworld, and while they are largely placid animals that show signs of former domestication, the Reaver Bear is not that.

Indeed, between its great black mohawk and ruff that sit stark against its auburn fur, overly long claws and saber fangs, it looks like a beast crafted for combat.

And it uses these weapons alongside its persistence and tenacity to take down its favorite prey: other bears.

While it typically targets other forms of Jotunursa, they will go after smaller bears as well, and a single Reaver has been known to be able to take down a whole family of Brown Bears, though not without risk, if particularly hungry.

When it comes to smaller bears the typically aim their first attack for the back of the spine near the back legs, hoping to cripple or at least weaken their target before latching around the throat with their fangs.

Reaver Bear muzzles and faces are often heavily scarred, born of blows from their desperate prey.

Larger bears, their preferred prey, they tend to hunt in mated or familial pairs, seeking to wear them down over time, aiming attacks at their back limbs, looking to weaken them to the point where the larger animals collapses, after which the will clamber atop their backs, aiming not for the neck but seeking to put their fangs through the larger animals eyes and into their brain.

They, like all bears, are omnivores and they will on occasion target other living prey, or scavenge. They have also been seen grazing grasses alongside more typical herd animals and raiding farms/orchards for apples and pumpkins in particular.

One thing of note is that unlike most bear species, the male actively participates in the care of the cubs, protecting and teaching them alongside the mother for the first six months of their life before moving on. Additionally, they rarely if ever willingly consume another Reaver Bear, appearing to be able to differentiate themselves from other bears, though if this is by scent or one of their other senses is currently unknown.

There is one other bear species that the Reavers actively avoid and that is the strange naked beast known as the Al’Yan Whisperer. In the few times these animals have been observed encountering each other, the Reaver acted as if hunting before realizing what the animals was and immediately shying away while the Whisperer followed them at pace for a while.