Overview

A bipedal mammal found in prairie, steppe, and other grassland areas of Entorais.

Description

Classification: mammal
Size (adults): Male - 2.1 – 2.8 metres (7 feet, 1 inch - 9 feet, 2 inches), 150 kilograms (330 pounds); Female - 1.7 – 2 metres (5 feet 7 inches - 6 feet, 7 inches), 120 kilograms (265 pounds)
Appearance: Physically the resemble an antelope headed ostrich or other large flightless bird. They have smooth, nearly hairless hide, instead of feathers, and a pair of small fore-limbs ending in dextrous long fingered paws, with a semi-opposable 'thumb'.
Sexual dimorphism: Male kentar are slightly larger than females, and have a short crest of stiff hairs along the spine of their necks.
Variance: Kentar can have a wide range of coat patterns (stripes spots, blotches, mixed, or piebald) and colours (generally white through black, and a full range of light and dark browns.)

Habitat: Kentar favour open grasslands or savanna.
Diet: As ruminant herbivores they graze on the wild prairie grasses and similar plants. They can eat a variety of grasses, bark and leaves from shrubs, roots, fruits and vegetables.

Social grouping: In the wild Kentar from herds upwards of one hundred animals, but tend to form familial subgroups of a dozen or so animals.
Temperament: Alert and skittish towards unfamiliar creatures or events in their environment.
Intelligence: Kentar are quite clever as animals go, and capable problem solvers.
Reproduction: Kentar males compete for access to females, and mate in the autumn. One or two young are live birthed in the spring, and reach sexual maturity at two and a half years.

General: These creatures are exceptional problem solvers and can figure out many latches and the like making it difficult to keep them corralled. However some tribes of the Tak-Mi-Lah and Anatu have domesticated these beasts instead of wild horses, and do use them for riding.
Mounts: As mounts they do not have the strength of a horse, but are incredibly fast, and agile runners, with a similar stamina.; Most Treahni do not see much value in raising and domesticating these beasts, as the challenge of dealing with precocious strays makes them less desirable. However those who have them as mounts claim to have a stronger mount and rider bond than most horsemen.
Resources: Milk, meat, and leather.