My name is from a book. The first short name that came to mind. Dio Dao - A non-humanoid race of marsupial intelligent creatures. Most of all they resemble terrestrial kangaroos, only with more developed forelimbs. Newborn Dio-Dao are covered with fur, which falls off completely before puberty. Hermaphroditic, capable of self-fertilization (see section on reproduction). They live very short lives, about six months. If a dio-dao does not bear offspring during its lifetime, its lifespan may increase by a week to a month.
Each dio-dao contains a piece of the memory of its most distant ancestors. In exceptional cases, when the child does not acquire a personality, the parent can “pump” his consciousness completely into the child, and in this case it turns out that the father does not die, but simply changes his body. The child can look out of the bag and even talk, although most often with the permission of the parent. When the time comes, the baby leaves the pouch, the umbilical cord breaks and the parent dies. Newborn Dio-Dao are the size of a five-year-old human child, while adults are as tall as a human.
Dio-Dao has meaningful names like “Born in Autumn”, “Waiting for a Friend”, “Thinking for a Long Time”, however, there are also diminutive names (The Waiting Friend was called Di-di).
The Dio-Tao have an interesting religion: they believe in God, but they believe that he is not defined, and not yet defined. Dio-Dao are confident that God, who created the Universe and all its inhabitants, lives outside of time and is a collective mind into which representatives of all intelligent races will gather over time - when they abandon material bodies and begin to live only in the subtle world. Therefore, the “form” of God and what he actually will be has not yet been determined.