: We do all these--in the Mythworld, at least, along with
: Dwarves and assorted other creatures--and we don't
: have 100 babies each. :-)
: The life of a Large Myrkridia, according to GURPS,
: consists of alternately wandering around alone or
: talking to other Large Myrkridia, and returning to the
: pack to lead it. This doesn't seem to fit well with a
: role of permanent and large-scale motherhood. Also,
: were Large Myrkridia the only females, they'd be
: immensely valuable and wouldn't get torn apart by
: other Myrks at the "first sign of weakness."
When they come back to lead the packs they mate with the other myrks. And I said most, 1 species out of thousands is most definetly not most. The babies would go through a breif gestation period after which they are born and crawl either into their mothers pouch or the pouch of another myrk who then carries it until it reaches adulthood. The reason we didn't see any baby myrks was because none of them had reached maturity yet and were still hidden inside the pouches.
