Medium Bond, Polyamorous, Diurnal, Territorial, Cannibalistic
Symbiote Velociraptor
Grouping Limits 2 Related Males, 3 Females, 3 Related Juveniles to the males
Nesting 3 Spring 3.5 hours | 2 Summer 3.5 hours | 2 Autumn 3.5 hours | 0 Winter
Birth
Cubs are born blind, they will open their eyes a few days after birth, and slowly will start to show playfulness and activity the better their vision gets.
Juvenile
Juvenile Cubs are now being bring back to the pride by their mother having to walk for days or hours, depending on how far the mother nested away from the pride, at this stage they will be extremely vulnerable to other side predators and scavengers that may attempt to catch them should they lure to far from their mothers side.
Solitary
Tarbosaurus don't typically mind solitary and sometimes specifically leave their pack no matter the gender to go off and live a nomadic lifestyle, often nomadic groups are 1-3 specific gender packs, either way they will spend their days actively walking and hunting not socially active with others of their kind.
Courtship
Male courtship behavior usually entails lots of head rubbing with the female, and patiently following her. When the female is ready and presents, the male will try to grip her neck, and attempt to assert dominance, then hse will later settle down with a nest and disappear for many days.
Parental Hood
The female nests cubs in a secluded den, which may be a thicket, a reed-bed, a cave, or some other sheltered area, usually away from the pride. She will often hunt alone while the cubs are still helpless, staying relatively close to the den. Females are extremely tolerant to their cubs and others cubs but males tolerance of the cubs varies, one male could patiently let the cubs play with his tail, while another may snarl and bat the cubs away.
Inhabitants
Tarbosaurus bataar lived in a humid plains with river channels, and in this environment, it was a predator at the top of the food chain, probably preying on other medium sized dinosaurs.
Hierarchy Lead Male
Pack Mentality Females spend their lives in their mothers' pride or with their sisters in a new pride, while males may only spend a few years in a given pride but remain with their coalition partners throughout their lives, once males establish a territory or take over one, they will regularly patrol or relax with the current females in their territory while females will go out on hunting trips whenever they are needed, spending their free time relaxing along the other females.
Females are highly aggressive to unrelated females, getting overly jealous if their around their mate and will sometimes lead to cannibalizing each other.
Extra
When a new male coalition first takes over a pride, the cubs represent a major impediment to their reproduction. Mothers of surviving cubs will not mate again until their offspring are at least fresh adults of age but will mate within days if their cubs are lost. Thus, incoming males are unwilling to be stepfathers and kill all the young cubs in their new pride; infanticide accounts for a quarter of all cub deaths. Although fresh adults often escape from infanticidal males, they become outcasts and must fend for themselves and suffer the risks of starvation and attacks from neighboring prides. Mothers will occasionally accompany evicted fresh adults until they reach independence.
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