Mole Rat, Giant

Description:

Giant Mole Rats, sometimes known as Underminers, are lumbering bipedal creatures the size of a bear, and resembling a cross between a hairless mole and an albino Rhinoceros. They have enormous claws that they can use to excavate tunnels through dirt and rock and an incredible speed, and their pale bodies - which never see the sun - are covered in thick callouses that grow over the years to resemble the plates of a rhinoceros, or the exoskeleton of an insect. They live deep underground, in complex, hive-like societies, where only a few breeding females bear all the pups sired by a select few large, successful males. The remaining population of the group is comprised of immature or hormonally repressed males and females that do all the work of feeding and raising the young, and expanding their often enormous underground tunnel networks in search of food. Their primary food source consists of fossilized carbon sources; oil and coal. The extensive tunnel complexes created by these creatures have been known to become warrens for creatures like tuckers - and when freed of the requirement to carve out their own tunnels, such creatures can reproduce unchecked, allowing their colonies to swell to enormous size.

Special:

Giant Mole Rats don’t simply burrow, they consume, compact, and compress the earth as they move through it, leaving passable tunnels in their wakes as they move if they so choose. As such a Giant Mole Rat can excavate a system of tunnels at an unbelievable rate.