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Description Here is an in-depth look at Ogres and their relatives.  They are related to the true tarasques.

One-toed Hidebehind: a hidebehind with a single digit.  They have lost their 2nd and 3rd digits on all three pairs of limbs.  Like most hidebehinds they are slow-moving, tailless arboreal creatures with long curved claws.  They are known to grow algae in their hair that helps serve as camoflague.

Two-toed Hidebehind: a hidebehing with two digits on its limbs.  They have lost their 3rd digits on all pairs of limbs.

Three-toed Hidebehind: a hidebehind with three digits on its limbs.  They are closely related to one-toed and two-toed hidebehinds and the most basal of the hidebehinds.

Hairless Dwarf Ogre: smaller hairless ogres.  Like most ogres thy have a long face, limited binocular vision, a pointed flexible upper-lip, a long prehensile tongue, blunt-clawed digits, a semi-bipedal posture, using their foreimbs for support when resting, and reduced, but functional midlimbs.  Like most hairless ogres, they have a sparse coving of hair, and thick wrinkly skin.  Though small for their clade, they are still relatively large in size.  Dwarf ogres have a sparse main that runs down the back of their head and neck and a tuft of hair at the end of their tail.

Hairless Ogre: moderate-sized sparsely-haired ogres.

Short-tailed Giant Ogre: large hairless ogres with particularly short, "brush-like" tails.  They are closely related to both hairless and dwarf hairless ogres.

Hairless Giant Ogre: large hairless ogres, who retain large heavy tails.  They are the most basal of the group, most of members rely on gigantothermy for thermal regulation.

Long-horned Rino-Oni: oni with a single massive horn taking up their nose and forehead.  Like most oni they use their horns to attract mates and for intraspecific combat.  Also like most oni they are more aggressive and territorial than other ogres.

Two-horned Oni: oni with two nasal horns, one in front of the other.  They are closely related to long-horned rino-oni.

Side-horned Oni: oni with two nasal horns that grow side-by-side.

One-horned Oni: oni with a single, but smaller nasal horn.

Unicorn Oni: oni with a single horn protruding from their forehead.

Bull-horned Oni: oni with two upward-pointing horns protruding out of the sides of their heads.

Three-horned Oni: oni with three horns protruding from the top of their head.  They are related to both unicorn and bull-horned oni.

Ram-horned Oni: oni with two downward-curved horns protruding from the back and bottom of their head.

Goat-horned Oni: oni with two backward-curved horns protruding from their head.

Four-horned Oni: oni with two pairs of horns protruding from their head, both curving in different directions.  They are related to both ram-horned and goat-horned oni.

Crowned Oni: oni with five or more horn growing out of their head in an "crown".  They are related to both three-hornd and four-horned oni.

Helmented Oni: oni with a horn-like plate covering their head.  They are related to both oni and rino-oni.

Giant Shaggy Ogre: one of the largest ogres.  They have long shaggy brown fur.

Snowy Ogre: white-furred ogres native to polar climates.

Mountain Ogre: mountain-dwelling long-furred ogres.  They have thick, almost wool-like fur.

Forrest Ogre: smaller dark-furred ogres.  Though the smallest of the ogres, they are still medium-to-large sized animals.

Sea Ogre: marine, shore-dwelling ogres.  Unlike most terrestrial ogres and like other aquatic ogres, they have short, hooked claws on the ends of their webbed digits.

Lake Ogre: lake-dwelling, aquatic ogres.

River Ogre: river-dwelling, semi-aquatic ogres.  They are excellent swimmers.

Swamp Ogre: wetland-dwelling amphibious ogres.

Short-Clawed Ogre: basal ogres with short, curved claws on their digits.

Long-Clawed Ogre: basal ogres with long, curved claws.  They are more a ground-hidebehind.

Three-toed Long-tailed Hidebehind: extinct hidebehinds related to both ogres and modern tailless hidebehinds.  They lost both their 4th and 5th digits on all their limbs.  They were larger and heavier than modern hidebehinds but smaller and lighter than modern ogres.

Four-toed Long-tailed Hidebehind: extinct hidebehinds with four digits.  They lost their 5th digits on all their limbs. 

Greater Drop-Bear: large, aggressive drop-bears.  Like most drop-bears they posses both internal "shields" on their rumps but also an enzyme cocktail that dull the pain and helps quickly heal broken bones.

Lesser Drop-Bear: small, timid drop-bears.

Common Drop-Bear: medium-sized, fairly typical drop-bears.  They are related to both greater and lesser drop-bears.

Grasping Drop-Bear: extinct, primitive drop-bears.  They lack the rump-shield and retain a short tail, unlike modern drop-bears.

Five-toed Long-tailed Hidebehind: extinct primitive hidebehinds.  They were 

Honey Xenopossum: small arboreal nectar-eaters.

So here are the ogres and their relatives.  They are ground-sloth analogues, but marsupials, so also related to drop-bears.
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