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Routa

Diet: Herbivore
Danger Level: 8
Social Ability: 6
Information: It is believed that this creature could be related to our planet’s beaver due to its habit of building wood dams and lodges by cutting down trees. It cuts trees down by using a saw feature found at the end of its tail. The saw has no muscle and is made out of sharpen bone. In order to move the saw, it will whip its tail against the trunk in order to get it spinning. Once it has enough momentum, it then slowly advances it into the trunk to cut the tree. Performing this requires precision and careful attention to the speed of the spinning blade. If the creature is reckless, the bone will get stuck in the trunk of the tree and it will have to start all over again. The worse case scenario is that the blades break, which would leave the creature incapable of cutting any trees down for the next three years as the bones grow back.

Once a tree has fallen, it will consume the bark and any plant life growing on the tree before cutting it into smaller logs and rolling it back to its home.

~Zeek Slider