In the den

Someday, when you're feeling brave, you should watch video of a Quolsekin devouring its prey. I had the chance to see it in person.

The predatory Quolsekin live out their lives in an underground den. Tunnels connect a series of large chambers. Some of the chambers are open to the surface, forming deep pits with steep, slippery walls.

When an unarmed prey animal falls into the pit, or is pushed, it will cry out for someone to rescue it. It will try to climb out but it will inevitably find the side far too high and muddy. It may take some time for the Quolsekin to arrive.

The legs are always the first to go. In this case the barbed tail was wrapped painfully but nonlethally around the prey animal's torso. While first one leg then the other was gnawed down to the bone. When she had had her fill, She dragged it down one of the tunnels, probably for some of her offspring.