OFFICIAL SPECIES NAME: Vi, the Word in Tynnan for "We".
TECHNICAL NAME: Tynnan, as the residents of the Planet Tynna.
COMMONLY KNOWN AS: Tynnan (Tuen-nan)
ALIASES: Pen- pushers, Tinnans, Tinns, Furballs, Rats (Very insulting)
KINGDOM: Animalia
PHYLUM: Chordata
CLASS: Mammalia
ORDER: Carnivora + Placentalia
(SUB)FAMILY: Mustelidae
GENUS: Canidae + Gulo
DIET: Tynnan are hypercarnivores and need daily raw meat taken in mostly through fish and shellfishs. They have a very high metabolism and have to eat through the whole day so their body would not start to take from their natural blubber that is used for isolation. Tynnan can very fast starve with a full stomach in the matter of not even a month, if they are forced into a mostly plantbased diet.
ORIGIN: N-14; Tynna is a rich world located along the Shipwrights' Trace hyperspace route between the astronomical objects Chardaan and Allanteen VI. Tynna is a fridig planet with big, frozen oceans, cold rivers and snowcovered forests. Tynnan had very early started to put the health of the planet for their species future generations before the own industry, so the nature of the planet had been kept mostly protected.
DISPOSITION: Incredibly social with an aptitude for bureaucracy Tynnan developted from fierce predators living in big groups that permanently melted together with or sepperated from other nomadic groups. The species is known for living in big groups with a very loose hierachy in which every individuum stays informed and works to be able to replace another so the community survives. This ancient tactic is seen in the nowdays planetwide lottery that is used to chose the members of the planets gouverment, so in modern age every adult Tynnan stays informed of as many topics as possible to be able to take on such a position.
COMMUNICATION STYLE: Body language through the movements of whiskers, ears, paws and the tail- Tynnan are able to catch the slightest vibration with their waved whiskers and while this ability is originally used to track down the tourbulences fish leave in water hours after the fish had left the spot, it is a common habit to press the own cheek against the cheek of another to have a "whispering" conversation through vibration that would be for every other species silent. Pheromones- Tynnan have an incredibly keen sense of scent and are easily able to follow scenttracks that are days, if not weeks old. They pick up others moods and healthstatus through their sense of scent.
Speech / vocalizations: The Tynnan Language consists of short words, squeaks,clicks, teethclacking, humms and trills. When a Tynnan is injured, they make cheeping noises as a call for help to their group, though that noise is involuntary.
BLOOD COLOR: Very bright red.
PAIN TOLERANCE: Despite Tynnan beeing brutally social, they are still highly agressive Predetors and in a situation of danger are instinctivey neither going for flight or freeze, but for the fight option. Their pain tolerance is naturally extremely high and due to their thick pelt and blubber as natural protection Tynnan are extremly hard to bruise up , injure or in general hold down.
REPRODUCTIVE METHOD: Placental
SIZE OF LITTER: Tynnan are a r-selected species and have in extreme cases litters of six up to eight pups. A litter of only two means usually, that the dam suffers of health issues. Due to cultural restrictions to avoid healthissues to the individuum (and avoid overpopulation), pregnancy is not a often happening occurence.
GESTATION PERIOD: A Tynnan pregnancy lasts a little less than five months. The cubs are born ready to crawl and in the Species stonage usually only two cubs of a litter of seven survived infancy.
SLEEP / ACTIVITY PERIOD: Crepuscular, though as a extreme social species their activity period is instinctive adjusting to that of their closest groupmembers so when one is sleeping the other can keep watch. Close friends usually have the same rhythm to spend time together nd when one has sleep-issues, so will the other .
NATURAL TERRAIN: As aquatic Mammals Tynnan mostly live in frozen oceans and cold rivers and seas, though they also live on land if bodies of water are near. Tynnan feel uncomfortable on open land.
TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE: Tynnan are build to feel comfortable in -50° celcius or even lower. They easily overheat in dry and hot enviorments.
LIFESPAN: As members of a r-selected species, Tynnan originally would not become very old and would die around twenthy years old (Tynnan with an Uterus would even only reach eleven years old and would easily die of bonecancer due to a overproduction of estrogen during their heat. It was Natures way to keep the population under control). However the species prehistoric and the rise of Tynnan community catapulted the species over only short millenias into longlivity due to great care and support put on every member of the community. In modern age Tynnan live up to a hundred years old, though this also went along with a strict population control (Mostly by putting anyone with an Uterus on the equivalent of a herbal Pill to prevent the overpruduction of estrogen and keep them from entering heat and with that run into th danger of bonecancer. Pregnancys and births are a keenly planned and heavily beaurocatic process in Tynnan society to assure the survival of dam and the marriage-units of up to 10 adults usually rise only one litter together in their lifetimes or even adopt half of a litter from their neighbours or friends as their own, if even that).
ELDER: 70+ years
The Tynnans "short childhood" is a remnant of the species stoneage, though culturally a Tynnan would only be considered an adult in their mid- twenties and added to the planetwide lottery, despite the fact that they had been fully grown physically for over a decade already.
SUBSPECIES: Tynna has no countries or boarders. In their stoneage Tynnan-groups lived in the oceans and were nomadic and permanently in exchang with eachother, so any different ethnicitys on a cultural or genetical level were permanently mixing. A visible distinction between subspecies is roughly possible due to Ecogeographic rules (size of ears, pelt fluff, lenght of limbs and muzzle), although for outsiders Tynnan "all look the same".
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS.
"The Tynnans were small, sentient mammals that averaged 1.4 meters in height. They had two arms and two legs. On land, they walked upright on their legs, but they were also deft swimmers. They were covered in brown fur and a thick layer of blubber that served as insulation against the cold waters of their homeworld of Tynna;they were comfortable with temperatures as low as -50 degrees Celsius.This insulation gave them a pudgy form that many species viewed as cute."
TYPICAL HEIGHT: The average height of a Tynnan is around 140 cm.
AVERAGE WEIGHT: Tynnan have heavy muscles and a natural blubber, so the usual weight is around 50-60 kg.
DIMORPHISM: Sexual dimorphism is findable in the height as the females are usually around half a head taller than the males. Due to the species thick pelt and blubber Tynnan look in general very soft and chubby and unless the Tynnan is considerable in bad health and sickly meager the difference in the width of the hips between the sexes is not visible. Tynnan have only swollen breasttissue after a giving birth for around three months.
COLORATION: Tynnan pelts come in all shades of brown
COMMON: Shades of brown with varying undertones; red, tan, auburn, hazel, dark chokolate brown, etc
RARE: A strawberry red coloration is the rarest coloration of the pelt and is only appearing when the parents both have the recessive gene.
MUTATION: Melanistic and albinistic Tynnan exist as mutations, although those only happen in combination with healthissues.
MARKINGS: Unless the Tynnan has a genetical mutation like the piebald pattern, the pelt of a Tynnan is usually without markings. Occaisonally in some ethnicitys the pelt on the back and on the outside of the limbs will be a darker shade of brown than the pelt on the stomach and inside of the limbs going from brown to dark brown.
EYES: Tynnan have a horrible bad eyesight. They are very myoptic. Their Eyecolours range from green, hazel to brown and to most commonly dark brown. The eyewhite is usually not visible and a dark colour. Tynnna are born with lightbrown/ golden eyes though the colour changes in the first month of their life.
TEETH: Tynnan have big buckteeth that are used as a tool. The teeth never stop growing and have to be grinded down. Modern Tynnan have smaller buckteeth than stoneage Tynnan. Beside the buckteeth the other Teeth are turned backwards, making the Tynnans bite hard to shake off. The bite of a Tynnan is usually strong enough to break bones.
LIMBS: Tynnan have sensetive, dark webbing between their fingers and toes. They have three fingers (+a thumb) and four toes.
PROPORTIONS: The species has short limbs and a very long, hyperflexible lumberspine. Made to live and hunt in water, a Tynnan is easily able to turn their upperbody almost completly around. This allowes them to move very flexibe and fast underwater. In the oceans this movement would be supported by water, but on land this can cause horrible musclestrains. Tynnan usually wear a medical-corset when they leave the water or go off-world.
On starships Tynnan prefer to move in zero-gravity, as this makes them feel as if swimming and they can move without the corset. Tynnan living on- land develop chronic joint- and -backproblems.
