Oqiuzíwín̥er̥o

A thick-furred muscular creature with four legs, a long snout, and large floppy ears. It has a long, split tail (splits into two tails near base of spine) that is prehensile for grabbing branches or prey or rocks. It has deep eyes set forward and relatively good eyesight, but relies more on smell and chemical receptors to locate prey. It's fur-coat can shift colors to camoflauge with its landscape, and it runs at a top speed of 120 kilometers per hour. It's method of hunting is stealth hiding, then leaping at the prey or chasing it down the canyon and into an underground cavern, where it can corner it. Most variations of this species live high in the top layers of the Raliok forest in Vera, but there is a smaller sub-species that live in the mountains and canyons of Egoni. The smaller species can leap off sides of canyons with outspread legs and fluff out its fur into a hardened wing-like membrane for gliding along heavy winds. It then pulls in its legs and fur and drops down onto prey. Some of them have been domesticated by locals to assist with hunting or guarding their homes from larger predators. They are friendly and have a sixth sense, as in can send limited images to their handlers of what they see/sense in their scouting/hunting escapades. This makes them useful for explorers.