The Gelden Strider

They are very, very large Animals, with spikes along their back for defense. they have four legs but with their front legs' paws are more longer and not bulky as their back feet for clawing prey or foes and climbing trees.

They mate like large mammals. The gestation period lasts for around eight months then give live birth to a litter of up to eight pups.

After they are born, they're called pups and grow up to the adult age after three years and become reproductive around four years old and become elders when they reach twenty years old.

They like to live in savannas and forests or anywhere there is large amounts of grassland and shrubbery to eat and also where there is water filled with lots vegetation.

They are herbivores eating aquatic vegetation and grass found within the savannahs and forests they dwell in. When there's food that to high to reach, they can go on their hind legs and grab food with their front paws or they can use their front paws to shake the tree to have food fall off from it.

They do not hibernate but instead hold food within a second stomach which acts as a preservation storage and regurgitates food out to eat it again during the winter months.

They live in herds where the Alpha Male is in charge but there can be multiple Alphas in a herd if and only if they were from the same litter of pups. Females can also be Alphas but is very rare and in those cases she would have a harem of Males she mates with while Males only have one Female mate for life. When a male or a female challenges an Alpha, they do so by standing on their hind legs and calling out to the Alpha with deep growling in their belly and the Alpha if threatened will go towards the sound and begin to duel the challenger. Then the two fight each other on their hind legs using their front paws to smack each other until one of them submits or dies. If the Challenger wins then the Alpha is kicked out of the herd and those former Alphas become rogues which make them more aggressive and change in color and their spikes become bigger and grow new sets of spike by their brow, and if the Alpha wins the challenger is kicked out until the next winter season. When a predator targets a pup in the herd, the females surround the pup and the males will attack the predators until they leave or killed.

They are domesticated by the Angellonians as a pack animal, farming and to track things.

They are used for their milk, hide, bone, meat and their dung for fertilizer.

They have two sets of teeth that stick out upwards which are for cracking shells from certain fruits.

They are commonly found on Orijhin within the south and east regions and Fodirn'Ladir.

They can be taught many tricks and are commonly used to track things or people.

They have pretty good eyesight seeing three times farther than the average sight but they are mostly colorblind only seeing green, red, yellow and blue colors. Their hearing and sense of smell is their best senses and are two times stronger than a dog's which is why the Angellonians use them as giant attack dogs.

The Fhinks worm is the only parasite that Gelden striders can be infected from.