The Galanglic
(the Trokh name is kehe'ea) name for a small (20 kg), herbivorous
marsupial reptile, found on the Aslan-inhabited worlds of Oihoiei (Reavers' Deep
0230), Khyalelftaoaoher (Reavers' Deep 0332), Hrike (Reavers' Deep 0530), and
Hrealeiwea' (Reavers' Deep 0531).
The
female gruut lays up to eight eggs per season -- but subsequently eats one or
more eggs herself (an unusual instinct-driven reaction, apparently to keep the
gruut population from exceeding the local area's ability to support it). The mother places the undevoured eggs in two large
hip-pouches where they remain until they hatch.
Once
they hatch, the mother cares for the offspring until they are old enough to fend
for themselves (about 60 standard days).
Nocturnal by nature, gruuts mostly
eat water grasses and some small fruits. To
date,
efforts to make pets of them have been unsuccessful.