Crimgan

Name:  Crimgan
Binomial Nomenclature:  [i]Specus extraho[/i] (Cave Dragon)
Average Height:  5 feet 3 inches/1.6 meters
Average Weight:  306.4 pounds/139 kilograms
Notes:  A carrion feeder, Crimgan are viscious carnivores.  Members of this species prefer to live in underground cave systems.  This means their sense of sight, especially in daylight, is under-developed.  Crimgan primarily use their sense of taste and smell to find food.
Though not built as a hunter, a Crimgan's sharp teeth and razor claws, while highly useful for tearing through dead carrion, are extremely dangerous against live prey.  Like Komodo Dragons, Crimgan prefer method of getting food is to wound an animal during the night and let it bleed out.  When the prey is weak enough, the Crimgan drags the prey into its cave home.  Due to the stink of death and experience, most animals know to avoid caves that house Crimgan, though on some worlds a symbiotic relationship exists where dying animals intentionally go into these caves to die.
Spread out across several star systems, Preserver action is theorized as the cause for how many different places Crimgan can be found.
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