And seeing one of these sabre-fanged beasties is quite bad news.
There's a reason the less-than-creative Commander christened em "quietfangs"

Bumped into a new alien species in a roleplay I was poking around with, and just had to draw em. Big ol meows <3 They're not too far off human intelligence, either.

.. They're also big smelly bastards, and I'd put money on it he's marking that tree.