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"Blessed are you, Paleboar - staple of our sacred state! May we, oh Lord, be as productive and bountiful as they."

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A close relative of the Bluedeer, the Paleboar is undoubtedly the most common Quadrilobe today, and the unquestioned backbone of the modern Sacred Republic's meat industry.

This is due to the very features that distinguish Paleboars from the Bluedeer. A wide-ranging, omnivorous diet means that they can survive on virtually any organic material given as food. Comparatively large litter sizes and short maturation times enable them to easily maintain a viable population, even in the face of industrial slaughter practices. And finally, a reputation for both hardiness and ferocity makes them able to survive almost totally unassisted on whatever planet they are released on for ranching.

Depending on the exact species within their genus, Paleboar exhibit a wide variety of social structures, ranging from polygynandrous herds to close-knit, monogamous pair bonds. Despite this, the genus as a whole retains a similar degree of sexual dimorphism, with males weighing a quarter more than females on average. Combined with genetic similarities, this has led to researchers believing that all modern species of Paleboar evolved a relatively recent common ancestor.

As with all native life on Haven that practices involved parental care, Paleboars feed their offspring through specialized "food-skin" that sloughs off of the mother, in a similar manner to some of the now-extinct Terran Caecilians. In hair-bearing Quadrilobes like the Paleboar, this manifests as clumps of oily, fat-and-nutrient-rich "dandruff" that remain tangled in the mother's hair until the young consume them. While this dandruff can be consumed by all known sapient species, the thick, tightly-curled hair of female Paleboars makes it difficult to gather - and preexisting "dairy" breeds of Bluedeer and Sixyak in the Republic have left little desire for a dairy breed of Paleboar specifically.

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A splendid piece of artwork commissioned from the ever-honorable GonzaloTCDA , depicting a species from my own ongoing science fiction universe.

And as for why it's a "boar" when it looks so much like a sheep… blame Gospel-of-Mark for that one(lol)

Description

"Blessed are you, Paleboar - staple of our sacred state! May we, oh Lord, be as productive and bountiful as they."

—-----------------

A close relative of the Bluedeer, the Paleboar is undoubtedly the most common Quadrilobe today, and the unquestioned backbone of the modern Sacred Republic's meat industry.

This is due to the very features that distinguish Paleboars from the Bluedeer. A wide-ranging, omnivorous diet means that they can survive on virtually any organic material given as food. Comparatively large litter sizes and short maturation times enable them to easily maintain a viable population, even in the face of industrial slaughter practices. And finally, a reputation for both hardiness and ferocity makes them able to survive almost totally unassisted on whatever planet they are released on for ranching.

Depending on the exact species within their genus, Paleboar exhibit a wide variety of social structures, ranging from polygynandrous herds to close-knit, monogamous pair bonds. Despite this, the genus as a whole retains a similar degree of sexual dimorphism, with males weighing a quarter more than females on average. Combined with genetic similarities, this has led to researchers believing that all modern species of Paleboar evolved a relatively recent common ancestor.

As with all native life on Haven that practices involved parental care, Paleboars feed their offspring through specialized "food-skin" that sloughs off of the mother, in a similar manner to some of the now-extinct Terran Caecilians. In hair-bearing Quadrilobes like the Paleboar, this manifests as clumps of oily, fat-and-nutrient-rich "dandruff" that remain tangled in the mother's hair until the young consume them. While this dandruff can be consumed by all known sapient species, the thick, tightly-curled hair of female Paleboars makes it difficult to gather - and preexisting "dairy" breeds of Bluedeer and Sixyak in the Republic have left little desire for a dairy breed of Paleboar specifically.

—-----------------

A splendid piece of artwork commissioned from the ever-honorable GonzaloTCDA , depicting a species from my own ongoing science fiction universe.

And as for why it's a "boar" when it looks so much like a sheep… blame Gospel-of-Mark for that one(lol)