Treecat

Treecats are a fictional species of intelligent lifeforms who take a prominent role in a series of novels and stories about the 'Honorverse'. David Weber was the original author, but others have begun to contribute related stories. All are published by Baen Books.

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Treecats are native to the planet Sphinx. They are intelligent, self aware, communicative, and social. They are the twelfth -- and physically smallest -- intelligent species known to humans. Their intelligence is on the order of Terran dolphins and probably higher. They evolved as arboreals, and continue to be so when in their native forests.

Species: In biology, the most commonly used definition of species was first coined by Ernst Mayr. Species are "groups of actually or potentially interbreeding natural populations which are reproductively isolated from other such groups" (however, see other definitions of species below)....

Lifeform: Lifeform is the physical entity which encompasses a life. A lifeform is in a non-equilibrium thermodynamic state. A continuous energy input is required to maintain this state. Lifeforms expend a significant amount of time procuring and metabolizing food to obtain this energy. The human lifeform has ...

Honorverse: The Honorverse is the semi-official name for the setting of a military science fiction series of stories by David Weber featuring Honor Harrington, the Horatio Hornbloweresque heroine....