Yaruk

YA(H)-ruu'k

Yaruks are immense herbivores that can readily crop tree leaves, even using their sturdy forelimbs to partly climb trunks to reach even higher. Yaruks are infamously destructive in their ongoing migrations, toppling whatever isn’t convenient to walk around. This has hidden benefits, though. Not only does this create natural pathways and game trails that other species exploit, but it also clears swaths through thick canopies, allowing for new growth.

Additional Information

Social Structure

While most yaruks are solitary, they regularly call to their neighbours with deafening bellows magnified by their hollow crests. The yaruks then form temporary gatherings (called 'moots') of between two to twelve of their kind, and wander together for up to a week afterward before the individual yaruks gradually disperse.

Domestication

Some are domesticated, although there are significant populations of wild yaruks on a wide variety of worlds.

Uses, Products & Exploitation

Livestock for food, riding animals, pack animals.

Geographic Origin and Distribution

Commonly found in temperate plains and forests. The wilds of Castrovel are one of the most popular locations that support yaruks.

Average Intelligence

Animalistic.

Type: Animal
Alignment: True Neutral

Scientific Name

Arborum Explementum Comedenti (treetop eater)

Conservation Status

Livestock. Legal to kill, but not unnecessarily or with undue pain. Be aware that their 'livestock' status means some may be owned, therefore making their unapproved slaughter a legal act of property destruction.

Average Height

6m (20ft)

Average Length

18.3m (60ft)

Average Physique

Powerful. Huge, lumbering beasts capable of trampling over smaller beings, plants and buildings with ease.

Geographic Distribution

• Castrovel