Turu

Turu is the title character of the Jonny Quest episode "Turu the Terrible".
== About Turu ==
It followed a pair of natives as they headed down the Amazon in their boat. It immediately swooped down, and caught one of them, flying away with him. The other native blacked out, and was found by the Quest team. Dr. Quest claimed the native's story was impossible, even though he drew a picture of it. They decided to head up the river on the Amazon Queen. 
Meanwhile, the truth was revealed when Turu attacked the boat, but failed to destroy the passengers. It returned to a cave atop the mountain, where Deen, a wheelchair-bound man, tried to comfort it. Deen was the one who trained Turu to capture the natives so that they could mine trinoxite, a mineral Deen mistook for silver. He warned the tribesmen that Turu would kill them if they tried to escape.
Eventually, both Deen and Turu were spotted. Dr. Quest and Race Bannon used their rocket packs to fly up for a closer look. Turu attacked the boat, and carried off part of the sail, leading Quest and Race to think it had hurt Jonny and Hadji. They fired their bazookas at it, mortally wounding it. It fell into a tar pit, and Deen drove his wheelchair into the pit to save it. Both of them sank into the tar before Dr. Quest and Race could rescue them. The skipper of the Amazon Queen was rather angry about having to deal with the "gooney bird."
== Trivia ==
* In the episode, Turu is drawn differently from the pteranodon seen in the show's opening and closing.
* Turu later had a cameo at the beginning of The Man Called Flintstone.
* Turu may have been inspired by Rodan, the pteranodon kaiju from the Godzilla movies.
 
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