Tikbalang (Legendarium Project)

The tikbalang (Equuhomo arboreum) is an arboreal equid with a heavily-modified genome that originally did not exist, but has since been created by the Legendarium Project. Males weigh between 150 and 209 kilograms (331 and 461 lbs), females of around 115 kilograms (253 lbs). Males stand between 1.69 to 1.96 metres (5 feet 7 inches to 6 feet 5 inches) tall at the shoulders, while females reach 1.6 metres (5.2 feet) tall at the shoulders. Compared with other equids, tikbalangs are covered in sparse short hair, with the only long hair on their bodies being long manes and on their short tails. Due to living parts of their lives in trees, tikbalangs are adapted for a forested environment and walk on the ground with their knuckles, similarly to apes, chalicotheres, and ground sloths. They live solitarily, coming together once every five years to breed. The males compete in ferocious one-on-one combat, typically until one male flees, though deaths are not unheard of. The female is pregnant for 12 months (1 year) before giving birth to a single foal. Tikbalangs are very aggressive animals, and they fill the niche of arboreal apex predators in the Legendarium Project's Golarion First World biodome.