#seakings

1.they live in the calm belt and specifically ‘nest’ there.

-Different dubs might vary on the term ‘nest’ but i'm going to go with that and assume they lay eggs

-Not many large size real world sea life lay eggs most doing live births, except for certain species of sharks that lay ‘eggs’ often called mermaid purses 

-It doesn't look like a bird egg in having a oval/round shape and hard shell, but are rectangle shaped tough leathery pouches with tendrils that anchor the eggs to the seafloor or hidden in seaweed 

-And That you can be seen through to the young shark developing 

-(talking from the next point) large social animals who have large young often invest a lot of time raising and teaching young often spend years in the group

-The instinct to protect their can also push how dangerous traveling the calm belt is

So I'll make Seakings nesting animals, laying soft shell ‘eggs’. That they stay and guard and raise their young, investing heavily in 1 big baby vs. lots of little ones. And the eggs are see through and tough but likely vulnerable to predators so they are guarded.  

2 seakings being social

-The same group of sea kings seen in the calm belt (and intros) were later seen in the fishman island arc when shirahoshi accidentally summoned them 

-This was mostly done to nowe have to design a new set of sea kings 

-But i'm going to take that and think they are a pack/herd/group animal 

-And manny group animals collectively raise young 

-This also implies they migrate 

-And manny birds who lay eggs have a imprinting instinct, meaning the fist thing the newly hatched baby sees it understand as its caretaker

-That has led to interesting occurrences of ducklings imprinting on people,shoes, basketballs, ect. and thinking thats its mother and following that around

-Compounding instinct can result in a cat having her kittens in a barn the same time a clutch of ducklings hatching and instead of eating them the cat decides that these are also her kittens and the ducks deciding this is mother 

Seakings are social pack animals, raising young in social groups instead of abandoning them. They migrate to reproduce and live in safer waters until; the young are strong enough for the deeper seas. And that the young imprint on older group members. 

3. Group organization.

-Most group mammals are organized into family units 

-There is no such thing as alpha male wolves that study has been thoroughly disproved

-Instead wolves live in family units of 

-Parents->older/ adult pups (that can help hunt and care for younger siblings)-> adolescent pups(learning but not much real help to hunting) -> baby (there job is being babies and not dying) 

-As some younger members of the group age they may leave and form their own packs and split off from the group 

-This particularly applies to the males, who can be driven out from the group to not accidentally interbreed with the lead female 

-And from that most groups (elephants, whales, dolphins, lions) are matriarchal with males often being solitary  

-(lions are matriarchal females will be apart of pride for her entire life time while males typical only stay/last for a few years at a time) 

-The leaders of all group animals are the oldest most experienced who pass their knowledge down to the younger members 

-And will likely care for the sick and injured letting them recover 

So I'll make seakings mated pair lead groups, with older members teaching young hunting/survival skills. The groups are close and will care for injured members.  With solo male seakings being solitary until they find a mate and start a group. 

(The real question is what do you call a group of seakings?) 

4.Do they hold their breath and dive or can they breathe under water?

-This one is kinda tricky 

-As most sea kings we see are closest to the surface 

-Living in coats (to being named after the area i.e. lord of the coats that ate shanks arm)/ calm belts to reproduce/ and normally spotted near the surface 

-they've also been seen in fishman island and is stated as being 10,000 meters underwater 

-I used to assume they could just breath underwater but i'm going to go with air based on sperm whales 

-Sperm whales can hold their breaths for around 45 minutes and dive to 975 meters in one dive, withstanding 14 psi of pressure in just a little shy of 10 feet

-(one piece humans built different to be able to withstand that much pressure) 

-So if sea kings are hundreds of times bigger than sperm whales their diving time and depth 

-Broad body shape and insp I’ll accept some specific breeds  being able to breath underwater 

S-o ill apply most seakings are air breathing and dive to hunt but generally stay closer to the surface. But with the variations in their designs ill accept some being able to breath water (jellyfish/visible gills/ shelled seak kings as that exception)

5. Variations

-There’s a wide variety between one sea king to the next 

-Shapes varying from eel, fish, shark, whale and dragon all being seen 

-Some have fins or legs or are completely smooth 

-They all fall under seaking 

-So I'm going to divide them into spices based on body shape/ traits that vary the most i.e. pigs/hogs look very different  but still nearly being the same animal

-The most common is the eel shape and others being pacific variations based on environment 

-And we can put a little of high school 10 biology with Darwin's survival of the fittest not being strictly about being big and strong but being suited to their environment 

-A hippo in the tundra may be the biggest thing and safe from predators but it will freeze to death as its not suited for cold 

-Another example is over the last 30 years a group of scientist studying a colony of birds living under a highway have noticed the birds wings have changed 

-The the birds with longer wings that are slower at turning have almost completely disappear in the colony most bird having short wings that can turn sharply and avoid being hit by cars so they breed and their young carrion on this helpful trait  

Eel shaped seakings are the most common and variations that stray more wired put to finding unoccupied nichs to fill becoming a split in the evolution line. 

6. Diets

-the one piece wiki says their type ‘C’/’big savage’ (same as fishmen) as a class of dangerous given in cannon by the human of one piece 

-So i'll be talking that (and the op wiki) with a grain of salt 

-But its stated as “ This is largely justified by their near-constant preying on other creatures, even comparatively tiny humans; once a Sea King has zeroed in on prey, it will attack relentlessly, and only retreat in the face of overwhelming physical (more rarely, mental) force. 

-i'm not really going to use this much as any sensible predators are rarely as persistent as most prefer to save energy and pick easier/more filling prey (a healthy lion won't bother catching a mouses unless as a play behavior) 

-Large predators on a whole are less aggressive than most media depicts (looking at you jurassic world) only being aggressive to people when starved/ sick/ or young are threatened 

-And as i've concluded they are social i'll put a lot of that aggression adults thinking their young are threatened 

-Or wandering lone males feeling their territory threatened 

-So we can assume as predators almost anything they can bite is game the island whales(laboons species) are a likely candidate as well as other seakings 

-Maybe sea kings living near the coast will pull down unsuspecting land animals 

Seakings are not prickly and will scavenge if given the opportunity and supplement their diets grazing on underwater vegetation. When hunting they target the sick, elderly and weak animals to expend the least amount of energy possible, but can group cooperate to hunt bigger prey. A slow metabolism keeps such large animals from needing to eat constantly. 

7.What preys on seakings?

-Humans (when strong enough)

-I do like the idea of whaling ships that hunt seakings, harpooning a seaking and drive it to exhaustion as method of hunting (endurance predators we humans are) 

-Banadawani are their only stated natural predators 

-Witch is fair ancient species of crocodiles were known to hunt dinosaurs (look up boar coc for free nightmares) 

-Yuda (the snakes pulling Hancock's ship) are avoided 

-Its stated on the wiki that they are sea serpents so i'll put them down as a seaking variation

-Other sea kings 

-Giants 

-And blue gorilla/ blugoir (what the hell are they btw? I completely forgot about them in the impel down arc. Blue faceless humans with fur and also guard the prison?? Who? Why? what?) 

Few things are big enough to threaten seakings and the sit top of the food chain. Social groups are a good defiance from anything willing to try.    

8.Intelligence.

-We know sea kings have complex thoughts 

-And most group animals are intelligent and are adaptive to read the body language/ communicate 

Passing down knowledge in hunting and sharing specific plentiful hunting grounds. being capable of complex thought and communication.