Ratha's Creatures -- Treelings, part 2

[rathacat]

5:37 PM PDT, September 6, 2007

So, to what species do Thakur’s little friend Aree and Ratha’s little companion Ratharee, Thistle-chaser’s Biaree, Bira’s Cherfaree, and other treelings in the clan belong?  Some readers have guessed a squirrel or other type of rodent, perhaps a kangaroo rat.  Others have guessed some early member of the raccoon

Comments

[ben_mouse]

interesting stuff!

Perhaps this is covered in one of your books, but that first pairing must have been interesting. How does a small primate overcome what must have been a natural fear of what was, in fact, a large fangy predator?

There's a question. As your vision of just what the treelings are has changed (sugar gliders are -small-, lemurs larger and so on,) how have you viewed the scale compairison between the two species? How large are the treelings, by your thinking?

And there's an interesting idea for a short story or novella down the road; the named/treeling relationship from the treeling's POV.

Anyway, I'm currently involved in a space-opera play-by-mail game with friends and others. It allows you to create your own race, and then build an empire. Been playing the game for the past four years now! You'll be amused to note that my race, the "Gosht Kohr," are a race of very large (near brontosaurian) hunting felines... with prehensil tails!

[ghostgecko]

I always pictured treelings as looking like a cross between a ringtailed lemur and a tarsier. Ringtail for color, tarsier for general build.
Haven't cats already domesticated the most useful primate of all? Considering I'm the one who gos to work and opens the cans of cat food while they spend all day alternately sleeping and wrestling with each other, I would say so ;)

[karare_wolf]

Lol i always figured they were lemurs

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