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'''Itorilleta''' are the most cunning and fiercest creatures of [[Altair/Biggs Colony|Biggs Colony]] in the [[Altair]] system.

The Itorilleta looklooks like a cross between a dinosaur, a spider and a scorpion of old [[Earth]]. andIt's crowned with a waving mass of sensitive tentacles. The twenty-metremeter tall beast lives in the jungle of Biggs Colony, [[Altair]]. andThere waitsit patiently waits for prey. It has eight legs the size of small trees with a giant misshapen belly that's ten meters off the ground. It is supported on limbs which lookappear spindly in comparisoncompared to the bulk above. The head peers myopically down at the jungle floor while the ring of sensory tentacles aboutabove its neckhead and headneck probes for situational awareness..<ref name=":0">The Fiercest Creature on Altair, [http://www.dream-ware.co.uk/frontier/books/stories-of-life-on-the-frontier/ Stories Of Life On The Frontier] by David Massey</ref>

A thin tentacle, barely a decimetredecimeter in diameter, can shoot out from under the eye ring, spearing towards prey. ItThe creature can lift prey from the floor of the jungle floor high into the air and sweep it to the creature's twin mouthed jaws. It carries two additional limbs which jut from the body just behind the neck.<ref name=":0" />

ItThe Itorilleta can let outmake a deafening roar which temporarily overwhelms that of the forest as a line of brilliantbrilliantly green pin-points flow along the length of the creature. It can rear up and with surprising agility span away to run intoaway in the jungle.<ref name=":0" />

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