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Mountain Troll

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Troll 4 of 7 for a college project called 'Write your own brief'.
As the title suggests we got to do anything we want.
I chose to do a study on trolls entitled 'Trolls Unabridged - A Guide to Trolls of the World'

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Mountain trolls may be the physical largest trolls,but all possess incredibly sharp claws and amazing regenerative powers,allowing them to recover from nearly any wound...They are stooped,fantastically ugly and astonishingly strong - combined with their claws,bites that can eather crunch through bones with little effort or like that of a cougar and with their strength that allows them to literally tear apart flesh to feed their voracious appetites.Trolls stand about 14 feet tall,but their hunched postures often make them appear shorter.An adult troll weighs around 1,000 pounds.A troll’s appetite and its regenerative powers make it a fearless combatant, ever prepared to charge headlong at the nearest living creature and attack with all of its fury. Only fire seems to cause a troll to hesitate,but even this mortal threat,but even fire is not enough to truly stop a troll’s advance.Despite their cruelty in combat,trolls are surprisingly tender and kind to their own young.Female trolls work as a group like elephants, spending a great deal of time teaching young trolls to hunt and fend for themselves before sending them off to find their own territories.like most in the animal kingdom Male Trolls are generally larger than females and are able to grow facial hair.like with elephants,once a male troll is full grown the tend to live a solitary existence partnering with a unrelated female for only a brief time to mate...All trolls spend most of their time looking for food,as they must consume vast amounts each day or face starvation so Due to this need,most trolls stake out large territories as their own,and fights between rivals are quite common and While these are usually nonlethal, trolls ARE aware of each others’ weaknesses and will use such knowledge to kill their own kind if food is scarce As said TrollS live in northern Arvinder or Norway,ranging from the cold tundras to boreal forests and cold mountains.They rank quite highly in the food chain,and are renowned among the people who share habitats with them for their strength and ferocity,with many cultures hunting them for sport out of respect. Appearance:as said above Trolls are huge,somewhat simian creatures which stand with a hunched posture on their hind legs though when sprinting they drop to their knuckles to run for short bursts and they are covered in several layers of muscle and insulating fatty tissue,topped off with mountain trolls having a oily white fur that adds further insulation from the cold and makes good camouflage in their snowy environment. Both their hands and feet are covered in thick, dark skin with their fingers and toes both being tipped with claws, used for tearing flesh. They possess heightened senses almond wicked fangs and a bone crushing bite,pointed ears,and blue eyes,as well as a pair of horns atop their heads *which are more prominent in males*.Adult males stand between ten and twelve feet tall but their hunched postures often make them appear shorter.An adult male troll weighs around 2,000 pounds. weighing from twelve hundred to sixteen hundred pounds on average, whilst adult females usually stand between nine to ten and a half feet in height, and weigh between one thousand and thirteen hundred pounds. Diet:Trolls are mostly predators, subsisting primarily on meat, though they do occasionally supplement their diets with various roots, as well as digging out insects from rotting wood. Due to their considerable dietary requirements trolls need large hunting territories,which they will defend from other trolls,with any who loses a fight and not fleeing quietly enough often being eaten by the victor. Life Cycle:Female troll pregnancies last about ten months,with the mating season occurring during the summer so that the cubs may be born the next spring.Females usually give birth to litters of two or three cubs and will typically nurse for about six to eight months,before learning to subsist on meat.The cubs will usually remain with their mother until age three(early teens in human years) during which time the mother must defend them from any adult males who happen by, as they are fiercely territorial Once the cubs are three years old(16 in human years)and entering adolescence,they will be kicked out of their mother's territory,and made to find hunting grounds of their own.One or two adolescents will often be killed by territorial adults before they can establish territory of their own.Trolls reach full maturity at about age six(age 20-40 in human years)and it is at this time when they usually begin engaging in mating rituals of their own.They will begin to degrade physically at around age fifteen(19 for human years), and will usually die of old age by the time that they are twenty years of age(in human years they'd be 70-90 years old)And It's possible that young trolls or the ones in there prime have the resistance to sunlight and can operate in the day without turning to stone,but its only as they get older there not as resistant.