Tayra

Eira barbaraBlue

The Tayra is a long, muscular mustelid of Neotropical forests, equally at home climbing, swimming, and running as it follows fruit, roosts, and well-worn game trails. Dark fur can show a pale chest patch, and a flexible spine helps it twist through branches in sudden pursuit, while activity shifts between day and night depending on food and the risk of meeting people.

RareTayra

HP 2700ATK 2700DEF 2600Level 0/10

In battle

HP: 2,700
ATK: 2,700
DEF: 2,600
Energy cost: 4

Passive Skills

ATK +30% each time the animal is hit
Before 3 hits received, ATK +40%
If an opponent has a higher HP percentage than the user, DEF +50%
For each energy point attached during the round, ATK +20%
During the first appearance, DEF +50%

Attack Effects

Reduces enemy damage reduction +30% (1 round)
Self: DEF +100% (1 round)

Overview

The animal behind the card

Omnivorous, it takes fruit, invertebrates, eggs, carrion, and small vertebrates, and it may raid poultry when forest thins into farms. Dens in hollow trees, rock piles, or burrows anchor large home ranges that rise and fall with seasonal flushes, and the animal is mostly solitary outside brief mating periods.

Deforestation, hunting, and new roads break up the cover it needs, even though the Tayra still thrives in many protected areas. The species is a quiet forest generalist, sharp-eyed and opportunistic, and a good sign that tropical woods still have vertical structure, water, and the messy edge habitats generalists use.