Caloma

Basic Information

Anatomy

Caloma are thin-limbed, spindly simian, that look as if they could break an arm or a leg as easily as a twig. With short, round bodies, only around 20cm at the longest measurement, their legs can grow up to three feet long at full extension, and arms to nearly two feet. Their tail, while always coiled to a tight ball at the base of their spine when they aren't traversing the jungle landscape, is often four to five feet long. They're all limb, and as such have a complicated vascular system to ensure their comparatively small organs can support their over-long locomotors.
Strangely and uncomfortably, caloma don't have the anatomy required to make vocalisations. You won't hear these monkeys hooting or whooping, chattering or chippering

Genetics and Reproduction

Like most primates, caloma give birth to live young, and produce milk to pips (baby caloma) in their infancy. Unlike others, many female caloma may start producing milk to feed a pip, whether or not they birthed the pip. In caloma society child-rearing is a community affair. Tracking who the biological mother or father are post-birth is near impossible without genetic testing.

Additional Information

Perception and Sensory Capabilities

Caloma communicate via hand signals. Archivists and researchers have been able to study the language, and in doing so, some can communicate in return to caloma. Caloma are intelligent, their brain their biggest and most expansive organ, and although the language hasn't developed syntax or grammar, it does have a reasonable vocabulary. Symbols are not related to one another. For example, the symbol for 'water' and 'waterfall' are completely different, with no morphological relationship to one another. Most signals are instead a simplification of the literal thing they are attempting to describe, and as caloma are only found in the Tanglestep jungle of Tinobi, there are no regional differences in the language.

Scientific Name

Liguri calomia

Geographic Distribution

• Tinobi