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[Spotty]

Smili

Index
Basic info and rules
Detailed info
Future adoptables
Breeding and born smili
Adopted Smili
The smili sub-species index

Smilii can currently only be adopted through the Pound of Hope


Rules and Basic information



Rules
1. This species belong to me and I want to be credited for it.
2. A smili can not be a fursona or a fursonas mate.
3. You can not design your own smili, you have to adopt it from me (through Pound of Hope)
4. If you need side characters for the background story when adopting a smili it is allowed to make those, but not to use them as characters. You can't get art of or RP those charcters, and neither can they have a character thead. Keep side characters as basic as possible.
5. You can draw art of existing smili, but you need the owners permission to do so. If you want to make art of a side character smili you need permission from me. You automatically have permission to draw a smili you are trying out for at Pound of Hope, according to their rules.
6. When adopting keep the info about smili in mind. Try to place the smili in a enviroment according to it's colouration and don't forget that a smili is an animal.
7. You can only breed your smili to another smili, and the cubs can only be designed by me. See the fourth post about the breeding option.

How to adopt:
I trust the adoption centre Pound of Hope with administrating the adoptions. I simply donate the smili I make there and they makes sure the smili goes to the best possible home. Make sure to read the info at PoH very closely before filling a form.
To adopt you need to read the specific rules about the smili species (above), and all the information of this thread. Please take the time to read through all the material since it gives a much better understanding of how the species works than just scrolling past the basic stuff. Also, concider to make your smili one of the existing sub-species.

Basic info
Smili are a large predatory animal of the feliformia order. They resemble large cats but aren't more closely related to them than to hyenas and civets. They live mainly in family groups on the northen hemishpere, far to the north in taiga and fell reigions. They are mainly adapted for a cold and harsh enviroment. There are however several newly discovered sub species of smili that live in isolated regions in enviroments which would not fit standard smili. Please see this thread for information:
The smili sub-species index
Smili is a kind of animal with a very primitive society resembeling very early humans (from before fire and tools was discovered). But however civilized they may seem they are still animals, and differ greatly from humans in their way of thinking and acting A smili has a very typical predatory mind. They don't make buildings, and they have no medical care. They follow and respect the oldest individuals of their group because of their experiance. Smili seem to make very little or no difference between genders.

Colouration chart
The colour of a smili is dependant on what kind of enviroment it is born in. The cub will inherit the markings of their parents but the colour of the enviroment. The factors that effect the colouration is temperature, humdity, burrow material and light.
Due to lots of misunderstandings on smili habitats I have desided that it would be safer to introduce a basic chart. Please note that this is a very basic overwiev, I could obviously not fit all possible colour combinations, you will have to use your imagenation to fill in the missing colours. Try to pick a habitat for your smili that matches it's colouration somewhat.

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Detailed information

Taxa
Smili is a cat like carnivor (feliformia), named in honor of the Smilodon, the sabre toothed tiger. Smili are a related to true felines but not acctualy such. In many ways they are more like civets and fossas than cats, and it's still debated about where to place them. Genetically they aren't as closely related to cats as they look, they are really about as related to hyenas, and civets. Most likely they have their own taxa in the feliformia suborder. Since the smili are newly discovered it's yet unknown how many sub-species there are.

Known sub-species
Please see this thread for information:
The smili sub-species index

Physical Apperance
The Smili are large predators adapted for cold enviroments. Both males and females are about 200 kg in weight and a height of about a meter at the shoulder, but males are longer and slimmer, while females are compact and more stoutly built. Both genders have a tendency for getting pudgy and pot-bellied which is most obvious for older individuals.

Most smili observed in nature have very long and thick fur, which makes them badly suited for humidity and damp enviroments. If there are other types of fur isn't known at this point but it's speculated in if there might be a short haired smili sub-species.

The front paws are long and hand like and they are used for holding things when the animals sitts on it's hind legs. They are able to sit much like rats do. The back paws are large and square with large toes. On all paws there are five retractable claws. The legs are short and strong adapted for climbing but not running.

The most noticable part about the smili are the unusually large tail. It's most often longer than the rest of the body. It's belived to be used for balance while the animal is climbing or jumping, it's also used to keep nose and paws warm when sleaping in snow. The tail might also have a frightening function, making the smilis look much larger than it really is, some have striking patterns on the tail. When angered the smilis hold the tail high in the air and hiss. Some of the smaller smilis and most of the young can be seen hanging upside down in trees in their tails. The purpose of this is unknown but it might be a hunting behaviour.

The head of the smili is unusually large compared to the body and is balanced by the tail. It has a mowahawk like mane, somewhere in between the mane of a lion and a horse. It has long ears split in halves from the top down to the middle. No one knows what the function of the split ears are. It might be hard to notice the splitting due to smilis having very furry ears to block out snow and cold. The face always seem to have a striking pattern, yet again it's belived that it's frightening to other animals or rivaling smilis, it might also have a important role in the smilis socail life.

In their moths they have a set of large canines, and a pair of fangs are visible even when the mouth is closed. The fangs are about and long as the chin.

Colouration
The colour of fur varies from a flaming orange through bluish white to compleatly black. The underside, face, mane and legs are usually in a darker or lighter colour than the rest of the body. The rules of colouration for smilis have yet to be uncovered. The mechanism behind is not understood, but it appears as the base colour and eye colour isn't descided on heritage.

All smili are born very pale, almost colourless and during their first 8-12 weeks the fur will darken and take colour. The pigmentation appears to be depending on the temperature, humidity and the amount of light the young smilis is exposed to. Because of this all cubs from a litter tend to have very similar colouration since they are exposed to exactly the same conditions.

The base colour seem to reflect the enviroment in some ways, a snowy place of birth often result in blueish smili, while a deep forest might result in earthly colours. The mechanism seem to be far more complex than anticipated and the humidity and what kind of ground the birth burrow was dug into seem to play a important role.

The patterns on smili howeves seem to be heritable and is similar to that of the parents. The patterns range through all kinds of spot and stripe patterns. Mostly the patterns are centered around one or both pairs of legs, only sometimes spilling over on tail, neck, head and mid-section.
The face always have a striking pattern, animals without it is very rarely seen. The ones born without seem to compensate it with paint on markings. The function of the facial mask is unknown, but it migh have a social function for the smili. It is observed that a smili without markings is rejected by almost all potential partners, and they aren't likely to reproduce.

Behaviour
Much is unknown about the smili. They have very rarely been observed alive in nature. They aren't very many sightings of them but they appear to live in small, isolated populations all over the world. Mostly in the north, in the taiga region but with rarer settlements south. They are belived to live in smaller family groups or even as larger tribes. Most likely they are nomadic tribes or groups that doesn't make any forms of buildings. Mostly smili seem to be sleaping directly on the ground, in trees or in simple shelters like a burrow or under a branch.

They seem to be very intellegent and highly social, capable of higher thinking but not as developed as humans. In some ways they remind of the earliest humans. Their ability to make artistic expressions such as body paintings and simple jewelery (with simple jewelery I refere to pieces of bones that have been chewed on to be sharp enough to be jammed through an ear or nose, nothing more advanced than that) suggests that they are civilized. They are belived to be highly intellegent in a crude way. They have been observed trying to keep other animals as pets if the pets are so small that they are pointless to eat and if food is plentifull for the moment. They seem to be able to get fond of another animal with time. They are hunters though, with a typical predatory mind, so most often they will eat whatever they can kill. Other species showing traces of intellegence they will try to reason with and contact if possible. They are actually belived to have a highly developed language and might be able to learn short and simple expressions in human speach.

Even though they are intellegent and have hand-like paws they are nowhere close in development of civilisation to humans. The paws can be used to pick up small objects, like a squirrel or rat does when eating. The paws aren't strong enough to lift something heavy that would instead be done with the mouth. Neither are their fore-legs developed for advanced movement, they can for example not throw objects. Their muscles are strong for inward movement, such used when climbing, but very weak for outwards movement, such as throwing.
Smili does not have tools. They aren't far enough in development to have invented tools more advanced than a stick. Their hands and arms aren't adaped for example for holding and swinging a hammer, therefor it's impossible for them to to so.

Estimated lifetime for a smili is about 40 years if it would live to die of old age. However this is very unusual. The smili are victims of frekvet accidents during climbing, or hunting, especially if using the "drop down on prey" technique. They are also victims of ear infections which on rare occations can be fatal if spreading to the respiratory system or if it's long termed enough to make the smili weak and starved. A few of the problems a smili can be born with include albinism, dwarfism (often resulting in a 100 kg smili if it lives to adulthood), blindness and infertility.

Smili have short legs and compact bodys. Thay are also most often quite lazy. They are highly unsuitable for running and wouln't be able to outrun most of their usual prey. Though they have been observed dropping down on their prey from clifs or trees, crushing it with sheer impact or sliting the throath with their long fangs. They seem to have adapted very clever hunting techniques including ambushes and traps to compensate for their lack of speed.

Life Cycle
In the beginning of fall some younger smili will start to get restless, their manes will start to shift colour to a bolder version of it's natural colour, and their facial markings will also change. The mask of the smili will go very bright and eye-cathching, enhancing the colour it already is. They will start to change behaviour, hunt more fiersly and with more vigour. Start to leave prey lying around close to the nesting area of another smili.
If the young smili gets the attention of it's interest, it might show off by singing. The song of a smili is a odd sound, reminding of short shirps, a sound one would expect from small birds. Some smili instead makes their song a low tuned, soft growl, barely hearable for human ears.

The young couple will start following each other around, hunting and sleeping together. They will wander off from their own group or groups more and more often, and for longer periods each time, untill they only spend time away. They might seem affectionate towards each other and groom their partner. In late autumn the couple will start to look for a suitable burrowing ground and dig a den. It takes lots of work to dig a burrow large enough for both parents to fit in. During the winter the smili will stay close to their borrow, and stuff it with all kinds of soft material. Small twigs for example and tufts of their own fur, feathers, or fur from prey.

In early spring when the snow still lies deeply in most smili territorys, starts the new circle of life. The smili gives birth to a small number of cubs in the protection of their deep burrow. A normal litter is one or two cubs, with triplets or more being a rare occation. The cubs emerge very pale and without any markings. They are a pinkish white to a light cream colour. They are born compleatly blind with their eyes and ears closely shut. In their mouths there are little bumps where their fangs soon will grow out, probably to protect the mother during birth. The young lack the characteristic tuft on the tip of their tail, it will grow out during the firsth months.
During the first weeks the smili cubs are very weak and helpless. They need constant attention from their parents, so at least one parent lie in the burrow at all times to protect the cubs from other animals and to keep them varm. Despite the parents carefull care, the cubs are so vulenarable that infant mortality is quite high. About one cub out of three won't make it through their first weeks.
The first weeks of their life the cubs live solely of their mothers milk, produced at her two milk glands. A smili isn't prepared for a lare litter so three or more cubs might be much for the mother. When old enough the parents will start to give the cubs a taste of the prey they eat themseves, this is usually well before the cubs even open their eyes.

When the cubs are about 6 weeks their eyes and ears are fully open, and thew will begin to walk. The parents will let them out of the burrow, some more reluctantly than others, and the cubs will begin explore. During this time their coats get their final colouration, it still has a few weeks to settle.

In the middle of summer the cubs are large enough to be away from their mother and some smili pairs split up at this point, splitting the cubs between them if there are more than one that have survived. They then return home to their old group with the new life.
Some smili pairs stick together and keep living as a family, most often returning to one of the parents old groups, or on rare occation staying where they are as a new one. A smili pair that stick together might try for more cubs another year and they aren't likely to have cubs with another smili than their partner ever again.
Even a pair that didn't produce offspring may continue to live together as a couple, just to enjoy each others company. Pair like this have been obsever living together for life, without once trying to get cubs. They just stick together for no apperant reason.

The smili cubs grow slowly to fully mature smili at the age of ten. They are grown enough to live by temselves before that but they aren't considered adults. The grown up smili may chose to stay with it's family and perhaps help taking acre of it's younger siblings if there are any, or it may move away. Most smili will stay with their family until they firnd a partner and a family of their own, but some simply gets a nest of their onw within the same group.
Some young smili finds a partner without ever wandering avay to make a burrow. The couple will just spend more and more time together and eventually they might move to one of the smili groups. For some reason some smili never have any cubs, eventhough they seem physically capable of it. Same sex pairs have also been obseved, mostly they won't try to burrow but on rare ocation they do. It might be an expression of their longing for a family
Some smili never show any interest in a partner and stays single for thier entire life.

Life as a smili is a hard one, and it's very rare for a smili to live long enough to die of old age. However if a smili survives to be about 30 years it will be concidered elder, and reveared by the other smili. The elders are often pudgy, with loose skin that can hang almost down to the ground. They often suffer from baldness, loosing the front part of their mane and the tuft of their tail. A elder have lived long enough to know what to do in most situations, so they will be trusted with decisions that effect the whole group.

[Spotty]

Future adoptables
Here is where the future adoptable smili can be pre-wieved. These smili may soon be up for adoption at the adoption centre:
Pound of Hope

Smili Cubs
These younglings need new homes!

Owner:
Name:
Gender:
Sub-species:
Potential health issues:
Parents:

Adult Smili
These adult smili might be up for adoption soon!


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Breeding
Breedings are closed at the moment.

Smilis paired up in couples can, if details about chosen nesting habitat is provided, have a litter of cubs if they want to. Smili cubs born to a couple of adoped smili will resemble their parents by pattern and habitat by colour. The happy parents will be waiting here untill the cubs arive.

Smili will have one or two cubs (on rare occation they might have three) and it's up to the owners to work out the ownership of the cubs between them. Shared ownedship is accepted. If neither of the owners want a cub it will go to me and it'll go up for adoption like the regular adoptable smili. It is not to be distributed to anyone else without my approval. If a smili cub is no longer wanted it is also to be returned to me.

When ownership is worked out, post which owner takes which cub along with name and gender for it.

If you type up a background story/use in RP/story/whatever don't change the cubs parents. It will always have the same parents even if adopted avay to someone else.

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Born Smili
Here are smili cubs born to a couple of adopted smili.


Owner: Pandora13 and Moondancer
Parents: Teika and Montmartre
Name: Dinan
Gender: Male
Sub-species: n/a
Potential health issues: n/a


Owner: Sugar & Spice and DarkAngel52
Parents: Fire Blossom and Oz
Name: Zeonate
Gender: Female
Sub-species: n/a
Potential health issues: n/a


Owner: Flamecat and azalea
Parents: Isis and Akiyama
Name: Valeria
Gender: Female
Sub-species: Pompeii smili mix
Potential health issues: n/a


Owner:iBrevity
Parents: Leuco Draco and Rantai
Name: Chrom Aero
Gender: Female
Sub-species: n/a
Potential health issues: Carries recessive gene for albinisim


Owner: iBrevity
Parents: Leuco Draco and Rantai
Name: Dys Mania
Gender: Female
Sub-species: n/a
Potential health issues: Carries recessive gene for albinisim


Owner: FreyaAquarius and DarkAngel52
Parents: Reneci and Rai
Name: Xanadu
Gender: Female
Sub-species: Casmera smili mix
Potential health issues: n/a


Owner: Kamalia and MeiTay~
Parents: Sanjana and Pleek
Name: Amaro
Gender: Male
Sub-species: n/a
Potential health issues: Carries recessive gene for unusual colouring


Owner: Kestral&Leo
Parents: Sanjana and Pleek
Name: Lantana
Gender: Female
Sub-species: n/a
Potential health issues: Unusual colouring

[Spotty]

Adopted Smili
These smilis have been lucky enough to find new homes.

Orphan Cubs

Owner: Nepherim
Name: Demiri
Gender: Male
Sub-species: Scrub Smili
Potential health issues: Suffers from inheritable blindness
Parents: Unknown


Owner: Applefiend
Name: Milk Tea
Gender: Female
Sub-species:
Potential health issues:
Parents: Unknown

Adults



Owner: -3B-
Name: Saoirse
Gender: Female
Sub-species: Common Smili
Potential health issues:
Status: Looking for a male mate (common smili or part-common smili)
Cubs:


Owner: Red October
Name: Antioch
Gender: Male
Sub-species: Jungle Smili
Potential health issues:
Status: Interested in a long term relationship with another male
Cubs:



Owner: Jelli
Name: Kekoa
Gender: Male
Sub-species: German Smili
Potential health issues:
Status: Not currently wanting a relationship
Cubs:


Owner: Flamecat
Name: Isis
Gender: Female
Sub-species: Pompeii Smili
Potential health issues:
Status: Intrested in a relationship
Cubs:


Owner: -3B-
Name: Darda
Gender: Female
Sub-species: Jungle Smili
Potential health issues: Unusual colouring.
Status: Intrested in a shallow relationship
Cubs:


Owner: -3B-
Name: Angatuyok
Gender: Male
Sub-species: Pompeii Smili
Potential health issues: His fangs are poisonous to all but himself
Status: Not quite intrested in a relationship, but if he was, it'd be with a male
Cubs:


Owner: Kamalia
Name: Sanjana
Gender: Female
Sub-species:
Potential health issues: Unusual colouring
Status: Relationship with Pleek
Cubs: Amaro (M), Lantana (F)


Owner: Moondancer
Name: Farero
Gender: Male
Sub-species: Pompeii Smili
Potential health issues:
Status: Would like cubs but isn't interested in a long term relationship
Cubs:


Owner: DarkAngel52
Name: Oz
Gender: Male
Sub-species:
Potential health issues:
Status:
Cubs:


Owner: DarkAngel52
Name: Rai
Gender: Male
Sub-species:
Potential health issues:
Status: Relationship with Reneci
Cubs: Xanadu(F)


Owner: iBrevity
Name: Rantai
Gender: Male
Sub-species:
Potential health issues:
Status: Looking for a relationship
Cubs: Chrom Aero (F), Dys Mania(F)


Owner: Sugar & Spice
Name: Fire Blossom
Gender: Female
Sub-species:
Potential health issues:
Status: Intrested in a relationship.
Cubs:


Owner: Rainy//Drai
Name: Ishla
Gender: Female
Sub-species:
Potential health issues:
Status:
Cubs:


Owner: Spotty
Name: Tali
Gender: Male
Sub-species:
Potential health issues:
Status:
Cubs:


Owner: iBrevity
Name: Mamello Issa
Gender: Male
Sub-species:
Potential health issues: No markings
Status:
Cubs:


Owner: Kheisa
Name: Katordora
Gender: Male
Sub-species: Jungle Smili
Potential health issues:
Status: Open to a relationship with a male or female smili and open to breedings
Cubs:


Owner: Lirrie
Name: Santeria
Gender: Female
Sub-species: Common smili X Dessert smili
Potential health issues: Very pale facial markings.
Status: Not looking for a relationship
Cubs:


Owner: Kheisa
Name: Tabor
Gender: Male
Sub-species:
Potential health issues:
Status: Open to the concept of one-night stands. (Could be intrested in breeding but not a relationship)
Cubs:


Adult image provided by Atwood
Owner: Kestral&Leo
Name: Lantana
Gender: Female
Sub-species:
Potential health issues: Unusual colouring
Status: Intrested in a relationship
Parents: Sanjana and Pleek
Cubs:


Owned by Pandora13, a female named Teika.
Status: Relationship with Montmartre.
Owner: Pandora13
Name: Teika
Gender: Female
Sub-species:
Potential health issues:
Status: Relationship with Montmartre
Cubs:


Owner: Autumn.Zephyr
Name: Calixte
Gender: Female
Sub-species:
Potential health issues:
Status:
Cubs:


Owner: ~Kaycee
Name: Tai Kaliso
Gender: Male
Sub-species:
Potential health issues: No markings
Status: Intrested for a relationship
Cubs:


Owner: Jelli
Name: Sunflower
Gender: Female
Sub-species: Jungle Smili
Potential health issues: Inheritable impaired tail growth
Status: Looking for a long term relationship
Cubs:


Owner: Whey (Previously owned by azalea)
Name: Rós (Previously named Akari)
Gender: Female
Sub-species:
Potential health issues:
Status:
Cubs:


Owner: Snickers.doodle
Name: Kunwela
Gender: Female
Sub-species: German Smili
Potential health issues:
Status: Interested in cubs and a mate
Cubs:


Owner: azalea
Name: Akiyama
Gender: Male
Sub-species:
Potential health issues:
Status:Wants to have cubs, might concider a long term relationship
Cubs:


Owner: Lori
Name: Tobias
Gender: Male
Sub-species: Pompeii Smili
Potential health issues:
Status: Would like to have a long term relationship, but isn't ready to. However, he is very intrested in getting cubs
Cubs:


Owner: Toadfoal
Name: Dakarai
Gender: Male
Sub-species: Common Smili / Pompeii Smili
Potential health issues:
Status: Aviable
Cubs:


Owner: hazleliz1313
Name: Trodaire
Gender: Male
Sub-species: German smili
Potential helath issues:
Status: Intrested in a relationship
Cubs:


Owner: wibeke
Name: Tarrow
Gender: Male
Sub-species:
Potential health issues: Fangs growing out of lower jaw instead of upper.
Status: Not interested in a relationship
Cubs:


Owner: RedBlueGreen
Name: Avera
Gender: Female
Sub-species: Scrub smili
Potential health issues:
Status: Intrested in a relationship
Cubs:


Owner: Veggivampire
Name: Bone
Gender: Male
Sub-species:
Potential health issues:
Status: Not interested in a relationship
Cubs:


Owner: Charbified
Name: Canowicakte
Gender: Male
Sub-species: Jungle Smili
Potential health issues:
Status:
Cubs:


Owner: Brisa
Name: Dusty
Gender: Female
Sub-species: Tundra Smili
Potential health issues:
Status: In a relationship with Cathal'
Cubs:


Owner: Moondancer
Name: Montmartre
Gender: Male
Sub-species:
Potential health issues:
Status: Relationship with Teika
Cubs:


Owner: Applefiend
Name: Kairos
Gender: Male
Sub-species: Common Smili
Potential health issues:
Status: Intrested in a relationship, and also intrested in single breedings
Cubs:


Owner: iBrevity
Name: Leuco Draco
Gender: Female
Sub-species:
Potential health issues: Albinisim
Status: Looking for a relationship
Cubs: Chrom Aero (F), Dys Mania(F)


Owner: kitten5862
Name: Keshu
Gender: Female
Sub-species:
Potential health issues:
Status: Intrested in a relationship
Cubs:


Owner: Rainy//Drai
Name: Sae
Gender: Male
Sub-species: Tundra Smili
Potential health issues:
Status:
Cubs:


Owner: iBrevity
Name: Ahnah
Gender: Female
Sub-species:
Potential health issues:
Status:
Cubs:


Owner: MixMatch94
Name: Cathal
Gender: Male
Sub-species: Tundra smili
Potential health issues: Inheritable impaired hearing
Status: In a relationship with Dusty
Cubs:


Owner: FreyaAquarius
Name: Reneci
Gender: Female
Sub-species: Casmera Smili
Potential health issues:
Status: Relationship with Rai
Cubs: Xanadu(F)


Owner: AlbertaBound
Name: Tlaloc, but later known as Alastar
Gender: Male
Sub-species:
Potential health issues: Inheritable blindness
Status:
Cubs:


Owner: Nini Dark-Star
Name: Rajah
Gender: Male
Sub-species: Jungle Smili
Potential health issues:
Status: Uninterested in a Smili relationship, has one with a human
Cubs:


Owner: Drama Llama
Name: Kore
Gender: Male
Sub-species:
Potential health issues:
Status:
Cubs:


Owner: -3B- (Previously owned by ~MeiTay~)
Name: Pleek
Gender: Male
Sub-species:
Potential health issues:
Status: Relationship with Sanjana
Cubs: Amaro (M), Lantana (F)

[Papyrsatyr]

X3 I love all of the Smilis. I'll try to fill out a form for the TAN to get one of them. Although which one is hard, as I like all of the designs. D:

[BlissfulFarrago]

Oh, they're so pretty! ^-^

[Spotty]

Thankies^^.
When I put the pictures of them up I tried to make a scale of them. Think it worked out beautifully. <3

[Papyrsatyr]

XD Refuse to get the idea of a house pet Smili out of my head. Just imagine a big fat Smili chilling on his back on top of a luxurious king bed iwth a mountain of pillows. His neck is adorned by a fancy silk collar after a big meal. XD

[Spotty]

Oh that sounds just lovely. And posh. They would probably make intresting pets, and they'd fit in collars. I want one too. >.<