Orca

Orca (aka The Killer Whale, aka Officer Orca, aka The Apex of Apex)

male / officer of nature's law / 8 meters (26.2 feet or 3.7 Shaquille O'Neals) / 6.6 tons (or 8.5 F1 cars) / unknown population health

Orca the species:

There are about 40,000 orcas on Earth and they are broken up into groups that are something like a tribe. The tribes are small and as tightly knit as only a woman can weave. There are many ways to classify them, but orcas are either transients, residents or offshore travelers. Yet none of them really share any family bonds regardless of however close they may come into contact with one another. Even the DNA of a transient pod and a resident pod that share common waters have been compared only to discover that the last time they would have intermingled would have been about 10,000 years ago. This independence from one another has created specialization that is absolutely baffling to me. Some resident pods only eat tuna and specialize in that. Some specialize in river salmon, but damned up rivers have hurt ocean going salmon populations and thus pushed certain specialized pods towards local extinction (wink, wink, break the damns). Some hunt only seals, or baleen whales, or dolphins, or whatever they feel like hunting because they're quite literally the top of the food chain. They'll even go after the largest predator in the world, the blue whale. There's records of an orca killing a moose that was in transit for Pete's sake! If you're not too squeamish, look up orca hunting tactic videos. They're amazing and these apex of all apex animals are led by the female matriarch. The complexities of the matriarchal role are not known, but orcas have been observed to be masterful communicators. (Also, if you know who Pete of "Pete's sake" is, shoot me a line.)

Orca the character:

As the apex of nature, orca believes that it's the job of his species to keep all other species in line. He believes in executing nature's law, he believes he's an officer of that law that plans on maintaining order. He can instill fear in any other creature in the ocean, but he has the ability and tendency to take law and order too far, harming those he's sworn to protect. He must do his job, but doing too much of his job serves no one.

"Officer Orca Executing Nature's Law"