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Description
Some animals and plants from Apher.
Barric - Rabbit/Beaver: The ulies catch barrics with traps and digging them out of their burrows. Barrics dig their burrows into the banks of lakes and slow flowing rivers and use sticks and stones to support their burrow entrances and tunnels.
Teeya - Lizard: These little reptiles are found everywhere on Apher and are one of the most successful animals on the planet. Primitive ulies used pelts to trap large numbers of Teeyas, they are still eaten in modern times but are also popular pets. Teeya lay numerous eggs in any space they can find, the eggs are a main food source for many animals. Teeya can swim great distances between islands using their long tails and surprizingly strong little bodies.
Chivey - Chicken: A small flightless bird which might be the first animal ulies domestiated. Stone Age tribes (called troops) would capture the birds alive and keep them before killing the bird when hungry. Some troops kept the birds as companions and chiveys became acustomised to being handled. In modern times they are farmed for their meat, eggs and feathers.
Erga - Duck/Penguin: Ergas are slightly larger than chiveys and while it is speculated that some primitive troops captured erga, they were domesticated much later. Erga are found all over Apher with many different kinds being farmed.
Lik - Deer: These agile mammals come in many different breeds with some of the largest being the size of a moose. Ulies will chase a herd into an area of cover where other ulies will ponce onto the fleeing liks. This method of hunting is still used by ulies in the Space Age.
Meecorin - Wild Boar: The meecorin is an intelligent animal with an attitude. Ulie hunters will always go for the smaller sows and young since boars and larger sows will always attack. Meecorin use their tucks to dig up roots and for defence against predators. Despite their aggression, meecorin are intelligent to learn complex tricks and signals from a handler and ulies domesticated them, breeding out their aggressive traits and creating the manm (pig). Many tamed meecorin are used in a guarddog capacity by law enforcement and they also make wonderful pets.
Oaran - Ostrich/Terror Bird: A large omnivorous flightless bird that primitive ulies did hunt, but only for the rite it gave to become a chief, the oaran is still an animal that will actively hunt ulies. Instead, ulies mostly eat their eggs or chicks. Ulies eventually domestiated these birds and used them as war mounts.
Kange - Salmon: Large fish highly prized for their taste. Huge schools of kange swim inland via rivers from oceans to spawn in lakes. They use their bright fins to scare off predators and to attract others of their kind.
Pirp - Trout: A freshwater fish which is a staple in the ulie diet.
Ael - Eel: When cooked and stuffed with the sweet flesh of the dinga fruit and other herbs it makes a nice meal.
Gicanthei - Grasshopper: Nomadic troops would collect large amounts of these insects to be eaten on the move.
Centa - Mantis: Carnivorous insect which is cooked with curries as a seasoning.
Dunel - Beetle: Large insect, a favourite snack for older pups.
Funik: This plant was used by prehistoric ulies as a herb but in time the roots were discovered to be a potent painkiller. In modern times it is mainly farmed for its painkilling properties and for a paste made from the main bulb of the plant which can be refined into a very gentle (less chance for seizures), but strong aneasthetic. The funik is a carnivorous plant which attracts insects with its colourful petals then closes them around the unfortunate victim where the plant then digests them.
Gei Tamul: This favoured food of meecorins and manms was used as a painkiller by ulies for many ages, but the chemicals in it means that the plant is actually an anti-inflamatory. Modern ulies culitivate the plant for use in both ulie and animal medicine.
Hon: The hon has an almost symbiotic relationship with ulies, its evolution has been about producing itself solely as a food source for ulies since it can only be pollinated by them. When ulies pick their melon sized fruit they spread pollen onto the ulies paws and arms, when the ulie moves to another hon patch it spreads the pollen onto the new patch. The hon fruit floats by being hollow inside with a small amount of hydrogen gas which shares the center chambers with seeds and necter which many ulies love.
Ignap - Turnip
Jilip - Rice: The jilip plant is a shallow water plant which grows numerable amounts of seeds along its reinforced stem, the weight of the seed bundles would snap the stem if it wasn't reinforced. Ulies collect the seeds and cook them as you would rice.
Koment - Pumpkin
Cries Miende - 'Blood Fruit': An orange sized fruit grown from the Cries tree, can eaten when picked or cooked. The blood name for both the Cries tree and its fruit come from the red tendrils from the bottom of the fruit. The intensity of the red can be used am indicator to ripeness.
1 - 4: Various berries.
Remtepol - Potato
Senjor - Carrot
5 - 8: Various nuts.

Description
Some animals and plants from Apher.
Barric - Rabbit/Beaver: The ulies catch barrics with traps and digging them out of their burrows. Barrics dig their burrows into the banks of lakes and slow flowing rivers and use sticks and stones to support their burrow entrances and tunnels.
Teeya - Lizard: These little reptiles are found everywhere on Apher and are one of the most successful animals on the planet. Primitive ulies used pelts to trap large numbers of Teeyas, they are still eaten in modern times but are also popular pets. Teeya lay numerous eggs in any space they can find, the eggs are a main food source for many animals. Teeya can swim great distances between islands using their long tails and surprizingly strong little bodies.
Chivey - Chicken: A small flightless bird which might be the first animal ulies domestiated. Stone Age tribes (called troops) would capture the birds alive and keep them before killing the bird when hungry. Some troops kept the birds as companions and chiveys became acustomised to being handled. In modern times they are farmed for their meat, eggs and feathers.
Erga - Duck/Penguin: Ergas are slightly larger than chiveys and while it is speculated that some primitive troops captured erga, they were domesticated much later. Erga are found all over Apher with many different kinds being farmed.
Lik - Deer: These agile mammals come in many different breeds with some of the largest being the size of a moose. Ulies will chase a herd into an area of cover where other ulies will ponce onto the fleeing liks. This method of hunting is still used by ulies in the Space Age.
Meecorin - Wild Boar: The meecorin is an intelligent animal with an attitude. Ulie hunters will always go for the smaller sows and young since boars and larger sows will always attack. Meecorin use their tucks to dig up roots and for defence against predators. Despite their aggression, meecorin are intelligent to learn complex tricks and signals from a handler and ulies domesticated them, breeding out their aggressive traits and creating the manm (pig). Many tamed meecorin are used in a guarddog capacity by law enforcement and they also make wonderful pets.
Oaran - Ostrich/Terror Bird: A large omnivorous flightless bird that primitive ulies did hunt, but only for the rite it gave to become a chief, the oaran is still an animal that will actively hunt ulies. Instead, ulies mostly eat their eggs or chicks. Ulies eventually domestiated these birds and used them as war mounts.
Kange - Salmon: Large fish highly prized for their taste. Huge schools of kange swim inland via rivers from oceans to spawn in lakes. They use their bright fins to scare off predators and to attract others of their kind.
Pirp - Trout: A freshwater fish which is a staple in the ulie diet.
Ael - Eel: When cooked and stuffed with the sweet flesh of the dinga fruit and other herbs it makes a nice meal.
Gicanthei - Grasshopper: Nomadic troops would collect large amounts of these insects to be eaten on the move.
Centa - Mantis: Carnivorous insect which is cooked with curries as a seasoning.
Dunel - Beetle: Large insect, a favourite snack for older pups.
Funik: This plant was used by prehistoric ulies as a herb but in time the roots were discovered to be a potent painkiller. In modern times it is mainly farmed for its painkilling properties and for a paste made from the main bulb of the plant which can be refined into a very gentle (less chance for seizures), but strong aneasthetic. The funik is a carnivorous plant which attracts insects with its colourful petals then closes them around the unfortunate victim where the plant then digests them.
Gei Tamul: This favoured food of meecorins and manms was used as a painkiller by ulies for many ages, but the chemicals in it means that the plant is actually an anti-inflamatory. Modern ulies culitivate the plant for use in both ulie and animal medicine.
Hon: The hon has an almost symbiotic relationship with ulies, its evolution has been about producing itself solely as a food source for ulies since it can only be pollinated by them. When ulies pick their melon sized fruit they spread pollen onto the ulies paws and arms, when the ulie moves to another hon patch it spreads the pollen onto the new patch. The hon fruit floats by being hollow inside with a small amount of hydrogen gas which shares the center chambers with seeds and necter which many ulies love.
Ignap - Turnip
Jilip - Rice: The jilip plant is a shallow water plant which grows numerable amounts of seeds along its reinforced stem, the weight of the seed bundles would snap the stem if it wasn't reinforced. Ulies collect the seeds and cook them as you would rice.
Koment - Pumpkin
Cries Miende - 'Blood Fruit': An orange sized fruit grown from the Cries tree, can eaten when picked or cooked. The blood name for both the Cries tree and its fruit come from the red tendrils from the bottom of the fruit. The intensity of the red can be used am indicator to ripeness.
1 - 4: Various berries.
Remtepol - Potato
Senjor - Carrot
5 - 8: Various nuts.