Shrieker Cat

Shrieker cats, named for their distinctive piercing screams, are a large species of endemic carnivores on Des Prime. They are feline in appearance, though they have very little fur, what little they do have centered mainly around the head and neck. Their skin color varies depending on region, but it is usually a mottled grey or brown.

Males get up to around 2.5 meters in length and weigh around 75 kilograms, while females get up to 3 meters in length and weigh up to 100 kilograms.

One distinctive feature is the row of five to eight spines that grow along the back from the base of the skull to just past the shoulders. Equally distinguishing are the two tails, often well over a meter in length.

Before the Cataclysm, shrieker cats were almost entirely hunter carnivores and lived in prides of eight to twelve individuals, but having to adapt to post-Cataclysm conditions they are now primarily scavengers and solitary.