Kohvuur

Kohvuur, also known as Frost Giants, are a large, fiece, blind, bipedal mammal found across Continent Eight and Continent Nine. They are related to great apes, but have notable differences in size and biology.

They were created by igopherit.

Biology
Kohvuur are a six limbed creature, with two legs and four arms. Their stocky legs support a strong and compact torso with long, powerful upper arms with smaller, more dexterous lower arms. When standing fully erect, a Kohvuur will reach eight meters height, but they usually move at a stoop, upper body at an incline with upper arms almost reaching to the ground and an overall height of six meters.

Purely carnivorous, Kohvuur skulls are large and over muscled, with adaptations for attacking even large prey.

Kohvuur have no sense of sight, due to adaptation to polar winter and summer but have exceptional smell and hearing, using both to track prey and kill them in a furious assault. The fur of the Kohvuur is either a brown or white, depending on habitat. The thick fur is both camouflage and and insulation. Kohvuur have an average lifespan of eighty years.

Physiology
Kohvuur are highly aggressive, both when hunting and when their territory is intruded upon. Their territory will always include on deep, dark cave which is used to hibernate in, and is usually a high altitude or polar area. Permafrost and tundra forests are also inhabited by this creature.

While not sapient, Kohvuur are intelligent, capable of stalking, and trapping prey by navigating ahead of it or attacking from ambush. Interestingly, this creature seems to enjoy hot springs, possibly due to the warmth and ability to remove parasites from its fur.

Reproduction
Kohvuur are a solitary species, only meeting when territories are in dispute or to mate. The female enters heat and males come to seek her, fighting, then mating. After the mating, the males will abandon the female to birth the child alone.