(about whatever monster is lurking in the forest) Maybe it can regulate its temperature. You don't know of any animal that can?
Ticks. I've heard they can halt their metabolism for up to 18 years, essentially going in to suspended animation until something warm-blooded comes along.
That's interesting.
Why is that interesting?
Thirty years ago, the town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, was terrorized for over a year by something. Killing livestock, terrorizing the people. Witnesses described them as primitive-looking men with red, piercing eyes. Became known as the "Moth Men." I've got an X-File dating back to 1952 on it.
(dryly) What would that be filed next to? "The Cockroach that Ate Cincinnati?"
No, "The Cockroach that Ate Cincinnati" is in the "C"s. Moth Men's over in the "M"s.
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