You can choose one ability score to increases by 2, and another score too increases by 1.

Canataurs mature and age at about the same rate as humans.

Canataur tend toward good alignments. Canataur who are focused on the pack lean toward lawful good.

The average Canataur is 6 feet tall, but they can be up to 9 feet tall or as small as 3 depending on bloodline.

Your base walking and swim speed is 35 feet.

You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Your maw is a natural weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with it, you can deal piercing damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

You have proficiency in one skill of your choice due to your Bloodline

As a bonus action, you can let out an especially menacing Bark and Growl. Creatures of your choice within 10 feet of you that can hear you must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or become frightened of you until the end of your next turn. The DC of the save equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier. Once you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

You can speak, read, and write Common and one other.