the term "prosimian" is used to loosely define non-monkey, non-ape primates, meaning Lemurs, Lorises, Tarsiers, and the like.

ADAPIDS

Sea Lemur

Not a true Lemur, but one of the last of an ancient group of new-world prosimians, Sea Lemurs are found in the various kelp forests of the Emerald Sea. they are adequate swimmers, but spend more time clambering among the kelp fronds.

Pine Devil

Originally classified as a giant species of fruit bat, physiological work has shown that the Pine Devil is actually a volant species of prosimian of the adapiform lineage, native to Equus and Stirrope. Among the largest species of prosimian in the world, it is also a raptorial predator, preying abound animals as large as boars. Once it spots its prey, it will swoop down and kick it to death. It is also the only species of primate that has syndactyl feet, giving the false impression of hooves. The second digit on their feet is an enhanced deadly version of the grooming-claw found in many other prosimians. Contrary to popular belief, their tails do not contain a venomous spur. Instead it is a hard, bony spear that can make lethal slashes which left unattended can cause bacterial infection.

A species of longevity, they also mate for life. While normally silent throughout the year, when the male and female renew their love they let out screeches and howls that sound like, to farmers and natives, equine screams in hellish form. Their gestation period lasts for six months and give birth to one baby. They are extremely devoted parents and will give up their lives to save their own child.

Skullcat

With a bite twice the strength of an manticore, extremely strong forelimbs, semi-retractable claws, a special dewclaw for disemboweling, this animal is specially suited for taking down large prey. The size of a tiger, it is the unquestionable apex predator of the woodlands and wetlands of North Griffonia. As a nocturnal predator, the eyes of this animal are specially evolved to see in low levels of light and reflect orange at night.

Males are slightly larger than females, which creates an evolutionary disadvantage and difference in behavior between the two sexes. Because of their smaller size, females often have trouble raising kittens where their ranges overlap with other predators. Despite their unquestionable strength, the pack phenomenon of the males of other species puts kittens and females alike in danger. A male skullcat never gives up his kill to any animal and is a solitary hunter, while females are highly social and form groups called coalitions to cope with predatory pressure. These groups are quite flexible, and can be composed of related or unrelated females, and don't seem to have a clear social hierarchy. They usually mate in early spring, gestating for three and a half months before being born in mid-summer.

False Weasel

Native to Neighpon, False Weasels have thick fur that is used for territorial displays. The fur on the top of the head can flatten like the ears or become erect when the primate feels threatened. These displays make the creature seem bigger, puffing themselves out against their dark colouring with vibrant reds and purples. the ears have become a flushed red also, and tip downwards, allowing them to track tiny vibrations.

False Weasels have an odd social structure. They mate for life, but leave one another after each mating season is complete for months at a time. Females enter the breeding season once a year in winter, usually towards the end of September. They are naturally adapted to the cold, with their thick, sheen coat trapping whatever heat their body puts out. Because of this, they seek out fights in order to build up heat that can be trapped, and thus, keep themselves warm. It is no surprise, therefore, that in warmer climates, Weavile often shed a large amount of unnecessary fur as to not overheat.

Males are stronger than females, but are slightly slower due to increased muscle mass, making the females the faster of the two. They are known for their incredible speed and their vicious, cunning and dark intelligence. They are shown to leave marking in trees, earth and even stone to ward off others from their territory. In fact, males create a perimeter of these marks whilst in breeding season, the bigger and deeper the claw marks, the more powerful the male. This perimeter of sometimes up to a mile in diameter allows the male and female to copulate in peace, but any challenge must be met from outsiders. Outsiders who either wish to take the male's mate, or to steal the female's territory (females keep the territory range after mating, the male is the one that leaves to find food)

False Weasels are fast, deadly and cunning and are used by criminals often because of this. Excellent thieves, the police often have trouble dealing with the problem; lack of training can lead to serious trouble in built up areas.

Fraggle

Native to Gorgle Island (in the Muan archipelago), Fraggles are small, gregarious primates that live in groups numbering in the hundreds, all housed within the cave systems of their island.

The average Fraggle is roughly 18 inches tall, and the species comes in a wide variety of skin and fur colors, ranging from dull brown with grey fur to light violet with electric blue fur. The Fraggle's non-prehensile tail ends in a single puff of fur, dubbed the "belubeous" by the Fraggle's discoverer, which flares out when its owner is frightened, acting as a distraction mechanism- Since the belubeous is the same color as the fur on the head, predators are fooled into going for the nearer fake "head" at the tip of the tail as the Fraggle turns to flee, ending up with nothing but a mouthful of fluff, which the Fraggle re-sprouts over time.

Fraggles are fairly decent swimmers and climbers, possess great athletic ability, and are usually described as having an almost dance-like grace. Fraggles also possess uncanny curiosity, but are fairly cautious around larger beasts.

Their diet consists mainly of root vegetables such as the Gorgle radish and the nesting material of the arthropod Doozers... which is derived from the radish itself. However, Fraggles supplement their diet with fruits, edible fungi, and small animals.

Fraggle troops are large, but do not necessarily consist of related individuals, instead being a loose conglomerate of individual groups sticking together for mutual support. A single individual in each group is usually in fact a member of two specific groups:

-The Familial Group, consisting of an individual Fraggle's immediate and distant family

-The Peer Group, consisting of similar-aged, unrelated or distantly related individuals the Fraggle has formed a personal attachment to. After being weaned from their mother, Fraggles will begin spending more time with their Peer Group as opposed to their Familial Group, to the point where certain members of a Peer Group will prefer sharing a nesting space with each other instead of their families.

Fraggle "society" has no clearly defined leader. However, age seems to be a major factor in how well-respected an individual is. In Fraggle troops as a whole, the eldest Fraggle seems to hold the most authority, and the same seems to apply to the dynamics within a Fraggle's Peer Group.

Among the most notable aspect of Fraggle society is how vocal they are. unless raiding the "gardens" of their Gorg neighbors, Fraggles will constantly communicate with each other, even making musical vocalizations that can only be described as songs.

Kong Island Not-Sloth

The Not-Sloth is found in the forests of Kong Island. Overall similar to the distantly-related and extinct Sloth Lemurs of Makyhira, these somewhat slow-moving primates feed on a mix of fruit, nuts, and foliage.

Gopher Lemur

A native of Kong Island, and not a true lemur, this burrowing adapid is more akin to a prairie dog than a gopher, living in large, communal burrows.

Striger

The main forest predator of Kong Island, the Striger possesses a long, slender body, forelimbs that can swing apart to an angle of 180 degrees, a prehensile tail and opposable fingers and toes that allow it to grasp the branches.

Pokemuroids
An offshoot of the Adapid line, these beasts are mainly small treetop carnivores, and can roughly be divided into three families: the Pokemuridae (Pokemuses), the Macropokemuridae (Chillas), and the Felimuridae (Felimuses)

Lion-Tailed Pokemus

The lion-tailed pokemus is an arboreal, omnivore that lives in southern Stirrope and the Middle East. The diet of the lion-tailed pokemus consists mostly of insects and smaller vertebrates, which it stalks, catlike, from hidden branches. Pouncing with lightning speed, this little pokemus snatches the avialan or lizard with its nimble, humanlike hands. Retaining a firm grip on its branch with a similarly dexterous pair of feet, the lion-tail quickly kills its prey with a sharp bite to the base of the skull before it begins to feed.

Lion-tailed pokemuses are monogamous, mature males and females forming hunting pairs that stay together for life. Young lion-tails remain with their parents for two years, learning to hunt before they set off to find mates of their own.

Common Pokemus

The common pokemus is a ubiquitous fixture of the forests of eastern Khaan. This close relative of the lion-tailed pokemus is even more omnivorous than its western cousin, feeding upon smaller vertebrates, all manner of invertebrates, carrion, and even the young shoots of bamboo plants.

Sivachilla

The sivachilla is a nocturnal pokemurid that seems to represent the type of pokemurids that later split into felimurids and macropokemurids. The sivachilla is not a true macropokemurid but a completely separate taxon. These predator/omnivores are found in the forests of Southern Khaan. Sivachillas will sleep most of the day up in the trees but at dusk it will climb down to look for food on the ground. Like macropokemurids, sivachillas have a varied diet; while insects, lizards, smaller mammals and bird eggs and young are their main source of nutrition, they are also known to eat certain fruits and nuts.

Raichilla

Raichillas are large (6 kg), heavily-built chillas, derived from arboreal stock, but fully at home on the ground, or even in the water. Chillas tend to be more carnivorous than pokemuses, and often dine on fish or carrion.

Pikachilla

Geologically speaking, the island chain of Neighpon was only recently separated from the Manechurian mainland, and so most Neighponese plants and animals are little changed from their mainland ancestors. The pikachilla is a case in point, a species endemic to the Neighponese islands, but part of genus that extends across eastern Stirrokhaan and Equus.

Like other chillas, the pikachilla is a raccoon-like omnivore with heavy tendencies toward carnivory. Pikachillas are stalkers, pouncing from a hiding place to grab an unwary bird or smaller mammal. These intelligent creatures often cooperate to bring down larger animals, but are content with smaller game.

Not-a-Coon

Similar to the raccoon, these Concordian primates also have very similar dietary habits, though with much more social families. Like most pokemuroids, not-a-coon males and females pair up for life, often within a larger tribe of extended relatives all defending a shared territory. The mated pair reproduce in midwinter and the female births 1 to 4 babies in early summer. The precocial offspring join the parents and eventually the larger family on foraging outings within weeks. hikers and campers in Concordia occasionally wake up to see one large masked face with one or more smaller faces tightly clinging the parent as they rummage through backpacks.

Red Felimus

The red felimus is common in central Stirrope, and its main prey are birds and smaller mammals, but reptiles, amphibians, bird and non-avian dinosaur eggs and young, and even mushrooms and fish may end up in on the primate's menu.

Khuffa

he khuffa is a civet-like felimurid from Zebrica.

Ilve

The ilves represent two species, the common ilve (Felipithecus sinisalonis) and the Equan ilve (F. borealis). They are quite large felimurids at some 6 to 10 kilos. Their most interesting aspect seems to be their ability to live in the cold boreal zone of the holarctic. Except for the common pokemus, no other pokemurideans live this far north. Diet-wise, they are more omnivorous than any other felimurid, nearly 40% of their food intake may consist of plants at times.

Studying the marked territories and movements of ilves proved that they seemed to move outside their territories quite often, usually when the owner of the neighboring territory was also away. Such behavior had previously been observed in housecats, but not before in pokemurideans. The animals seemed to also leave "no one's land" areas between their territories, possibly in prey-poor areas, where all observed meetings were peaceful, and where females often came in spring to leave marks of their readiness to mate instead of leaving these markings on the borders of their own territories. It seemed that the females preferred to draw in all the prospective mates to one neutral place, possibly to protect their last year's litters, which often followed their mothers to the point of her next pregnancy. After being observed in ilves, similar behavior was also seen in the red felimus, although the neutral areas and the associated behavior of the females in heat seemed to be unique to the ilve.

Ilves had been known to visit carcasses not being guarded by larger carnivores, but this was considered to be highly opportunistic, random behavior. However to the great surprise of the scientists, they once observed seven satellite tracked individuals on the same carcass. To better observe such behavior, the scientist set up a new carcass with hidden cameras in hopes of better observing the behavior of the ilves on such a situation. After some initial failures, the plan finally succeeded, and for the first time felimurid animals were seen not only feeding in the same place in relative peace, but also exhibiting signs of some kind of hierarchy among the individuals. Large individuals that held their tails straight up or bending upwards picked the best parts and drove away smaller and younger individuals with drooping or down bent tails. These lower ranking individuals were still allowed to eat whatever they found in other parts of the carcass.

Another important found made during these carcass feedings was that a previously documented but unexplained far reaching call occasionally made by old males was actually connected to these gatherings. When an old male found a carcass safe to approach, it would remain at a safe distance and make a deep howl that turned into a roar, best described as: "uuuuaaoorrh". This seemed to draw in ilves from many kilometers away, and only after other individuals began to appear, the discoverer of the carcass would move in to feed. Only the old males are know to make such calls after happening upon a carcass, which has lead to speculation, that the individuals answering its call were either sired by it or its previous partners, and calling them to such an ample source of nutrition would serve protecting its genes. This hypothesis is yet to be conclusively proved, however.

One other major, still controversial, find was made during the three year observation period. This was behavior tentatively described as primitive tool use. Ilves had been known to throw sticks and pieces of bark at snakes, when they encountered them on the forest floor, or saw them crawling up a tree their nest was built in. However, one encounter turned out much more complex. A female ilve, having seen a black night viper among the undergrowth, picked a long branch, and started beating the ground near the snake's head with it. This prompted the night viper to strike at the stick twice, and the second time it seemed to keep the branch in the grip of its jaws. At that very moment the ilve leapt into action and delivered a lethal bite near the snake's neck. The ilve was seen later eating the dead snake, starting from the tail. This was one out of only two observed cases where an ilve had killed a snake. The behavior of the female seemed to hint at surprising mental abilities, but no separate incidents have proved anything conclusively.

However, later ilves were seen digging up nests of ground ants with short branches to get to the eggs hidden below the ground. Not all ilves seen digging for ant eggs used sticks or branches, but it appeared that all the offspring of the female first seen engaging in this sort of behavior used these digging aids. The said female was also once observed enlarging the opening of its winter nest, again using a piece of branch, but this behavior was only seen once and never in other individuals. This would seem to hint that ilves are indeed capable of tool use, even though similar behavior has not been observed in other pokemurids.

LORISOIDS

Tokoloshe

The Tokoloshe (Tikoloshe, Hili), is a water-loving Zebrican prosimian with the ability to become invisible. the crest on its head is used to cut small branches for its nest

Burglar Monkey

Nocturnal inhabitants of the rainforest canopies of both Kong Island and Skull Island, Burglar Monkeys are rather large as far as Lorises go (3 feet), and feed on a wide variety of small animals and fruits, eggs, nuts etc. As with typical Lorises, they possess glands and a grooming routine that render their bites venomous. In this species, it serves mainly a defensive purpose, confrontations with predatory birds or reptiles resulting in a painful bite and lingering side effects.

Gorg

A large, bipedal lorisoid native to Gorgle Island (in the Muan archipelago), Gorgs live in small family groups, consisting of a mated pair and their immediate family, usually their children and grandchildren.

Gorgs, while non-sapient, do have a primitive form of farming, tending to patches where they grow various vegetables and fruits, which are often raided by their adapid neighbors, the Fraggles.

Clatta

A native of Kong Island, the clatta possesses a heavily armored tail protected by a series of overlapping horny plates.

The animal itself is a leaf-eater and moves slowly, upside down, along the boughs. When a predator attacks, it drops down and hangs from a branch by its tail. The clatta is now safe (the only part within reach of the predator is too heavily armored to be vulnerable).

Tyrant Loris

Native to Southeast Khaan, and reaching a length of about 1.3 to 1.5 meters and a weight of approximately 160 kg, this large primate almost resembles a normal loris in morphology, but unlike its small relatives, the eyes much higher in the face, its jaw is longer and broad, able to bite strong and hard, enough to break bones and cut muscles quickly, in addition it have lost in part the toxin that the ancestral forms were able to produce, although this is quite present in the young. Most of them are quite territorial and solitary, always limiting its area of dominion to one or several trees. It is nocturnal, hunting late at night to any animal that crosses its territory. Because of its slow lifestyle, it relies on an unusual ambush style, standing with the legs on the branches while with its free arms catches the victim, and strategically begins to bite the head until it dies. After finishing with it, it takes the body towards the tree tops, and only devours the rest.

Occasionally at a time of the year when the female is in its most fertile period, males leave their trees to find her, however, when a male chooses one of these, she tends to be brought to the territory of the winner and until after copulation and being fertilized, the male simply expels her. The gestation period lasts about 5 months, and at birth, the female nurses the baby for another 3 months until it develops. This species have a lifespan of about 30 to 50 years.

LEMURS

Giant Lemur

Native to the Zebrican island of Makyhira, the giant lemur is the size of a gorilla and its morphology is quite similar. The skull has a sagittal crest that serves as an anchor to a incredibly evolved masticatory muscles . He uses these muscles to chew a wide variety of fruits, leaves and branches. It feeds for most of the day to accumulate the energy required to move its colossal body (about 150kg). His arms and legs are very sturdy and strong. Unlike other lemurs, it has no predators.

They live in small groups with a dominant female, three or four females and two males, who act as caregivers for the young. Communicate with each other with bass sounds, squeaks or knocks. While adults spend their days eating on the forest floor, the pups play and climb trees, as they weigh little and his arms are more suited to climbing than adults. As they grow, the arms will become thicker and heavier, and multiply the weight, so it will only climb trees large enough to hold your weight to feed.

Tretretretre

The nut and leaf-eating tretretretre (or tratratratra) has long and powerful arms and legs, each with significantly long fingers and toes to allow them to hang upside down on trees, as well as swing from branch to branch to travel across the jungle. Thus, these animals exhibit the odd behavioral combination of being both specialized leapers and adept climbers and hangers. The long arms of the tretretretre have hook-like extremities on their hands and feet. This enables them to hook their bodies onto the foliage to stabilize themselves as they traversed through the trees. On average, this species weigh between 100-120 pounds, heavier than most arboreal lemurs and could potentially have caused the species to fall while hanging on branches, forcing the species to make sufficient use of their long arms and legs to survive.

Koala Lemur

A fairly large beast (4-5 feet long), this lemur's body is squat and built like that of a koala. Its long arms, fingers, feet, and toes are specialized for grasping trees, and its legs are splayed for vertical climbing. In fact, the hands and feet are curved and the ankles and wrists do not have the usual stability needed to travel on the ground like most other lemurs.

This beast's almost bovine jaws are powerful enough to handle the tough vegetation of Makyhira, and unusually for a primate, its eyes do not face forward.

ZOOGS

Zoog

In the tunnels the woods of Stirrope, whose low prodigious oaks twine groping boughs and shine dim with the phosphorescence of strange fungi, dwell the furtive and secretive zoogs.

Most of them live in burrows, but some inhabit the trunks of the great trees; and although they live mostly on fungi it is muttered that they have also a slight taste for meat, for certainly many have entered the wood who have not come out.

Mer-Zoog

the only known open-ocean prosimian, mer-zoogs are well adapted to their environment.

GREMLINS

Mogwai

Native to Manechuria, these nocturnal omnivores travel in small groups, and breed explosively during the rainy season.

Long-Tailed Gremlin

Gremlins are, for lack of better definition, completely crazy creatures. While more intelligent than other primates, on the point of being technically sentient and capable of speech, Gremlins have no concern for society, complex works or even complex thought. They live as wild children, not having a care in the world and having fun with everything they do. One may ask where the problem is with this. Well, the answer is simple: their fun comes at the expense of others, be them sapients, animals, plants or even other Gremlins. They utterly love to play heavy, often deadly pranks, and often dismantle things just for curiosity or for the hell of it.

Gremlins are nearly perpetually laughing and snickering, no matter what they may see or do. Even if wounded, after some instants of stupor and pain the brain triggers the release of some sort of hormone that numbs the pain and creates an exhilarating effect, effectively drugging the creatures. But even without this biological weirdo, the creatures find the way to laugh out of any situation and then go back to do it again. They don't really have any sense of self-preservation or community, and give no weight to the loss of their kin, saluting their fallen with a heartfelt fit of laughter.

Gremlins are omnivores and can eat just about anything they can get their hands on. Although their canines are very prominent, they also have molars, which enable them to munch on fruit, and their long tongue is able to grab objects for them to eat without loosing grip on branches. They are predators as well, but their lack of organization makes them kind of sloppy, preferring to swarm over a target to overwhelm it in sheer numbers. Even though they are disorganized, they usually look up to a leader figure as a completely authoritative figure, able to bully his way through the others at will. The 'alpha' role is usually covered by the Gremlin that first started the colony, parent of all the others.

"RAT MONKEYS"

Brown Jenkin

Native to Kong Island, but having spread across Khaan, Brown Jenkins are often used by witches as familiars. they are mostly carnivorous, but also feed like a vampire bat.

Gold-Caped Rat Monkey

There are several species of rat-monkey. Pictured is the most common, Nothosimius flavus, the Gold Caped Rat-Monkey, named for its color and the thick cloak of long hairs on the shoulders of the male, native to Kong Island. The average rat-monkey is about 12-20 inches long, with a bare, scaly tail of the same length, weighing up to twelve pounds with a brain capacity of 40 grams, the males being slightly larger. They are omnivores, eating a wide variety of fruits, nuts, insects, small animals, and eggs. They have been observed to make and use simple tools, and posses a complex system of calls, many of which are above the range of equine hearing, which almost approaches a language.

Their social structure is fascinating, unlike many other mammals. Young males woo the unbonded females by building nestlike bowers decorated with bits of bone, shell, feathers, flowers, shiny stones and other eye-catching trimmings. The females are the more aggressive gender, viciously driving off other females that seem interested in the same male. When the 2-4 young are born, the female only nurses them for a few weeks before passing them off to the male, which has the unique ability to lactate. The larger, stronger male stays at the home nest, nursing and protecting the young, while the quick, agile female goes on expeditions to gather food. Several males, usually close relatives, may nest near one another for protection, but the advantages gained by close association are almost negated by the constant low-key squabbling of the females. When the young are older and before the breeding season begins again, the rat-monkeys will travel in loose associations of several bonded pairs (again, the males are typically relatives). Young rat-monkeys stay with the father for several years before striking out on their own, and are ready to breed at 5 years of age. Wild rat-monkeys can live up to 30 years, with 20 years being the usual lifespan.

Naked Rat Monkey

This native of Kong Island and Skull Island seems to be a mammalian equivalent of a vulture, a predatory scavenger of nasty and omnivorous disposition. Among its vulture-like adaptations are a long muzzle and hairless head and neck.

Common Rat Monkey

Actually a fairly rare species native to both Kong Island and Skull Island, Common Rat Monkeys are harmless if left alone, but are fierce predators of small animals, even up to their own size. Some individuals have been caught and smuggled overseas by animal dealers, and thus, Rat Monkeys were the first Skull Island animal to be exhibited in zoos. This trend was brought to an abrupt end when it was discovered that their bite often carries a horrible and unheard-of virus. Known as Jackson’s Plague, it is a terrible degenerative disease that usually results in the victim becoming violent, disoriented, and very likely in infect others. Unless immediate medical attention is sought, the disease progresses to symptoms that include boils, rashes and eventually large disfiguring tumors.  Patients left untreated for this long will appear wretched, bloodied and grotesque, but still retain a strong tendency for violence and insanity.

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