Theosodon

Theosodon is a genus of domesticated Nocoan litoptern mammal.

Characteristics


Theosoda are long-legged with a long neck resembling llamas or guanacos. They are large for a litoptern, reaching up to 2 m in length and weighing up to 170 kg.

They have a long neck and tapir-like, three-toed feet and like other litopterns, they bare their weight on its middle toes.

Rather than having nostrils at the front of their head, theosoda have their nostrils on the top of their snouts, halfway between the forehead and the tip of the snout, and their nostrils pointed upwards rather than forwards, possibly as an adaptation for browsing on prickly vegetation.

Biology
Theosoda are a terrestrial and cursorial animal that lives in both forests and more open environments. Thanks to their size and long neck, theosoda are high browsers, stripping leaves off trees and shrubs high off the ground. They have a slender jaw compared to many other litopterns, in order to feed in softer foods, such as dicotyledons, or thorny plants.

Domestication
Theosoda have actually been domesticated, originally by the Pre-Fãngra people inhabiting the Kraj tu wastu peninsula. After the area was conquered, its breeding was brought to the neighbouring islands, to which these people fled, and, as it was also adopted by the Fãngra, to some other places to the south of the Fãngra Empire. They are farmed for their milk, meat and hide, as well as to be used as beasts of burden.