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« on: January 13, 2012, 04:37:36 pm »

Biology
Anatomy
The Oka have a theropodal body plan, but with a semi-erect torso and interestingly long arms for a therapod. Their height ranges from 1.2m in Gondan females to almost 1.8m in bull Ishgalog. In general, males are larger than females. S. mons males are around 1.6m (5.2 feet) tall and 1.9m (6.2 feet). Females are 1.4m (4.5 feet) and 1.7m (5.5 feet). Their bodies, except there lips, ears and the area around the eyes are covered in fur. Their hair is different from those of other planets, having evolved from quill like structures instead directly from scales. There bone is also slightly different, it is both more durable and not as brittle, and are more resistant to fracturing, a very dangerous case for a fast running predator living on a high-grav planet. Even today, breaking a bone is a very serious case. They have 5 fingers on their hand, 3 fingers and 2 thumbs, but they aren't as good a manipulator as other species, with more palm than fingers, plus, they still retain claws. On their feet, they have only 3 toes left, the other 2 having receded into the foot. Their skulls are relatively thick, once again to prevent serious damage from a high grav fall. The males are thicker due to their ancestors’ often brutal fights. They have differenced teeth, incisors, primary canines, secondary canines, regulars and molars. An adult with a full set of these choppers will have 62 in total. But their main killing tool is on their foot. Although s. mons' is slightly vestiged, all modern members of Duovenatus have a large killing claw on their inner toe, in the shape of a scimitar, not the raptors hook shape, for slicing into flesh. Sapiens' claw is usually 10-8cm (4-3inches).
Plus, all creatures on Okasa use carbon as a biological base.

Physiology
Homeostatis is achived in the same way of other warm-blooded animals, and is similar to other mammal and avian creatures. The atmosphere breathed by them is 79% Nitrogen, 15% Oxygen, 2% Argon, 0.8% Carbon Dioxide, 0.3 water vapour and 3% other gases. They are as stated earlier carnivourus, but modern Oka usually include nuts and sometimes tubers. They, like most other species, can have allergies. They are also prone to gut parasites. Interestingly, they are also vunurable to ear infections. There atmosphere is slightly thicker than Earths (10N/cm2), understandable considering the relativly large size of Okasa (1.8G). Although the oportunity has never presented itself, Okasa would need a gas mask to prevent possible oxygen poisoning on most planets, and maybe a suit to combat lack of pressure on a smaller planet.

Genetics
Like most complex carbon based life forms, the Oka use DNA, left handed type-Z to be specific. Like most species in the Duovenatus family, sapiens has an unusually high mutation rate. Although the reason for this is unknown, it means that numerous subspecies have evolved. This diversity has meant that throughout history, racism and discrimination have been common. The Oka have yet to discovered genetics and so show no opinion on the matter.

Life Cycle
After copulation, the female Oka will take a mere 6 weeks for her eggs to gestate. But she will not lay them, as like all other members of Neorepyilia, the Oka practise ovovivipary. Instead she will between 2-4 now fertilized eggs in a pseudo womb. It will take 7 months* for them to hatch. Once they do hatch, they are expulsed from the womb. In the past, 50% of the hatchlings nearly always died after their first 2 years, but thanks to advancements in medicine and sanitation, the population is on the rise as more babies survive. The young are born with a black coat , which slowly turns lighter until it reaches whatever colour that race normally has. The hatchling will be cared for first by the female, but then the task will fall primarily to the male. By 3 months they are walking, by 7, running and jumping. They feed the young through regurgitation for almost 10 months until they are weaned off onto solid food. But it usually take around 2 or so years to teach one to talk. They grow quickly until 10, in which they experience a major growth spurt. In males, they characteristically grow from 70cm to almost 160cm (in s. mons) in just 5 years* (18cm every year). By 15 years old they are both sexually and physically mature and are often expulsed by their family in societies across the world. Females mature more slowly, their growth spurts being less extreme and reaching sexual maturity by around 16 or 17. By their 20's, an adult has reached its prime but now doesn't have long to live. The average lifetime of an adult male during the Mesolithic the average lifespan was a mere 25 years of age, by the end of the Dark Ages, 30, maybe 40. Even now, in the highest point in history, it is usually never more than 60.

Subspecies and Variations
As stated before, there are many ethnic groups and even subspecies of the Oka. The subspecies, not including the original sapiens, include s. oriens, the first subspecies to evolve, in Pangsa, the eastern continent. The most important ethnic groups of this subspecies are as follows: The Tarish, of which their is there is the Salam culture and Talam culture; Karan; Yummentine; Targon; Dabba; Targon; and those of the northern tribes. In the far west, s. mons evolved. They are hardy and adapted to survive in the Brundussatu Mountains. Of these there are 4 varieties: Western Brunduska, often considered, but only by them selves, the pure race. Then there are the Eastern Brunduska, the immigrants and soldiers that interbred with the newly conquered (and now reduced) Gondan Empire. In the Skytukhon rainforest, the new of forest life has radically changed them, making them much less stocky for prowling through the jungle floor. But genetic reaserch has proven that they are not yet a subspecies. And may never be, as  their isolation is under threat from the West Brundus Empire. Down in Bundercow, the harsh climate gas left in untouched by civilisation, meaning the nomadic hunting tribes with their famed dog breeds live unchanged. Then their is the Ishgalog, that strange race of thin furred northerners. Although they used to have a huge empire, they are now limited to the Jummut P., their homeland, and Patterneninsi Island, the current Ishgalog sronghold and capital thanks to the huge military campaigns of the Old Karan Empire. They are renowned for their backwards technology and bloodthirsty religion. Last but not least are the ethnic groups of the original sapiens. These are the inhabitants of the ___ Desert, those of the Fillimotakut sub-continent and the original inhabitants of the Gondahuut area, now mostly mixed into the Brundus population ever since they were conquered 600 years ago. Then they are the Gondans, now the inhabitants of various states along the northern Gondan coast. These people have a long, long history filled with the building and expansion of great empires. But now there glory days are over, and they have been thrown owt of their deep home land, the Gondahuut Peninsula by the mighty Brundus Empire.
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