The Lurking Hunters

15 creatures confidence: medium community #21

The drop bear overhead and the amarok in the snow-glare hunt by membership in the scenery right up until the moment of the leap. The terrain you trust is the mouth.

camouflaged ambush predators (drop bear, amarok, cactus cat, yara-ma-yha-who), carried since v1 [carried from v13, overlap 0.70] [carried from v14, overlap 0.81] [carried from v15, overlap 0.50]

What binds them

The shared documented vocabulary this family coheres around — each link lists every carrier of that motif or power.

• camouflage (power, shared ×21)
• shy elusive avoids humans (motif, shared ×15)
• heightened senses (power, shared ×6)
• ambush predation (power, shared ×5)
• devouring (power, shared ×3)
• strategic hunting intelligence (power, shared ×3)
• tool use (power, shared ×2)
• aggressive territorial charges (motif, shared ×1)

Spans 10 tradition families: european ×3 · none ×2 · celtic ×2 · oceanian ×2 · north-american-indigenous ×1 · other ×1 · african ×1 · southeast-asian ×1 · east-asian ×1 · south-asian ×1

Members

• Amarok
• Aswang
• Black Demon Shark
• Cactus Cat
• Cirein-cròin
• Dobhar-chú
• Drop Bear
• Grassman
• Mokèlé-mbèmbé
• Nian
• Peluda
• Takshaka
• Tatzelwurm
• Wolpertinger
• Yara-ma-yha-who

Affinity families assert documented resemblance — shared motifs and powers that beat a null model — never genealogy. Descent is a different claim, made only by the gold curated-kinship edges on the constellation. Discovered by deterministic community detection; see all affinity families.