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Ventriloquil

Diet: Carnivore
Danger Level: 11
Social Ability: 7

Information: A predatory cat with a very unique hunting style. Its snout houses venomous glands that it fires into the eyes of prey in order to blind it. If the creature somehow escapes the attack that follows, the poison will travel along the optic nerve and disable the creature’s motor skills. At this point, all this creature has to do is find its prey again and consume it. If another carnivore finds the prey before it does, the venom that disabled the prey will cause the stomach problems for the creature that consumes it, and that creature will end up dying from the ingested venom. This only means a bigger meal in the end!

This is also the only time it ever opens its mouth. The sounds it makes when performing a mating call or growling to scare off competing predators does not seem to originate from the mouth of this creature. It is hypothesized that it has the ability to throw its voice like a ventriloquist. It uses this ability to confuse both prey and predator alike into thinking that there may be more than one of this creature hiding in the area.

~Zeek Slider