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"Codex Entry:

Species name: Simurgh major
Order: Neomegachiroptera (Neo-Megabats)
Clade: Slats and allies (Pseudoxenarthra)
Distribution: Great southwestern Banyan groves
Diet: Primarily folivorous and frugivore, will consume carrion on occasion.
Size: 4 meters long and weighing around 140 kgs (around 1 tonne on earth).
- The Interstellar explorer's codex, Lachesis edition.

"One of the heaviest flying creatures of all lachesis, the slat is a formidable beast. The size of an adult black rhino and built like a gigantic gorilla or ground sloth, these magnificent browsers are some of lachesis most interesting sights. Though primary ground dwelling, these creatures can easily climb the titanic, skyscraper sized trunks of of the world banyan (Titanoficus impossibilis) in search for leaves and figs, which make up much of the creature's diet. Its massive claws help it climb through even the tallest branches in search for their food as well as serving as formidable weapons of defence, as if its size wasn't already enough.

Though they mostly feed atop of the World Banyan, they actually spend most of their lives in the ground, living in social groups often led by an elder male. Like their ancestors the megabats, and unlike most animals in lachesis they don't use ecoholocation or infrasound, instead, they communicate trough loud clicks and deep bellowing calls that can be heard from miles wide in the forest.

Slats are intelligent creatures and closely related to what i've heard from my colleagues are the sentient inhabitants of this weird planet, and i can only imagine what their smaller but more intelligent cousins may look like..."

- Diary of Robert Rostov, naturalist and explorer of the Lachesis research project.

(Made by Austroraptor/Leonardo Oliveira)

Description
"Codex Entry:

Species name: Simurgh major
Order: Neomegachiroptera (Neo-Megabats)
Clade: Slats and allies (Pseudoxenarthra)
Distribution: Great southwestern Banyan groves
Diet: Primarily folivorous and frugivore, will consume carrion on occasion.
Size: 4 meters long and weighing around 140 kgs (around 1 tonne on earth).
- The Interstellar explorer's codex, Lachesis edition.

"One of the heaviest flying creatures of all lachesis, the slat is a formidable beast. The size of an adult black rhino and built like a gigantic gorilla or ground sloth, these magnificent browsers are some of lachesis most interesting sights. Though primary ground dwelling, these creatures can easily climb the titanic, skyscraper sized trunks of of the world banyan (Titanoficus impossibilis) in search for leaves and figs, which make up much of the creature's diet. Its massive claws help it climb through even the tallest branches in search for their food as well as serving as formidable weapons of defence, as if its size wasn't already enough.

Though they mostly feed atop of the World Banyan, they actually spend most of their lives in the ground, living in social groups often led by an elder male. Like their ancestors the megabats, and unlike most animals in lachesis they don't use ecoholocation or infrasound, instead, they communicate trough loud clicks and deep bellowing calls that can be heard from miles wide in the forest.

Slats are intelligent creatures and closely related to what i've heard from my colleagues are the sentient inhabitants of this weird planet, and i can only imagine what their smaller but more intelligent cousins may look like..."

- Diary of Robert Rostov, naturalist and explorer of the Lachesis research project.

(Made by Austroraptor/Leonardo Oliveira)