Longcattle

Four-legged herbivorous beasts with long necks and whip-like tails. The smallest species, about 6 feet tall at the hip, with a body length of 20 feet, are domesticated by the people of the Archipelago and used as beasts of burden and draft animals, as well as killed for their meat and leather. Their melon-sized eggs are also considered as a delicacy. The Kem Kem nomads of the Southern Plains travel the deserts and shrublands on longcattle caravans. Larger species, growing up to 60 feet in length, known as behemoth longcattle, also live in the Southern Plains and, in small numbers, on the islands of Iberia, Pyrenia and Provancia. They lay clutches of 10-12 eggs, from which small, less than 2 feet long longcalves hatch. The fertility god Oma is traditionally portrayed as a longcattle.