Three of the creatures encountered in my latest Traveller session, where the PC's have put down for repairs and refitting. They dubbed the world El Dorado for its temperate climates (in the far northern and southern hemispheres) and diverse biosphere, a veritable gold mine for lost starfarers in need of restocking provisions.

El Dorado has a similar main star to Earth's (G5V), is a bit hotter about the equator, has no permanent icecaps, an axial tilt of 11 degrees, has 44% hydrographics coverage, an atmospheric density of .95 ATM's at sea level, and 0.89g's gravity. It has one moon, smaller than Luna, but a little closer, with a similar tidal influence. A day on El Dorado takes roughly 26.25 hours, and a year takes a little over 220 standard days.

The Big Macs, essentially orange protoceratop/bison, were found to be a decent meat animal for terrestrial life. They are big, and travel in herds of up to several hundred thousand on El Dorado. Named by the Pride of Parm's ship's boat pilot, Ricktor Puskina, because, and I quote, "They reminded me of an Irishman I once knew."

Avel's Prowlers, named after Pride of Parm's chief engineer, who had to scare one away from the ship with a firearm. The specimens that get as large as the one above tend to be solitary hunter, while smaller, blue-green and khaki colored related species are pack hunters.

Tri-beaked Tarabirds are named after the Pride of Parm's XO, Tara Nikiforov. Riktor pointed out the carrion birds had her screechy personality and unfortunately the nickname he gave them stuck. Luckily in the far northern and southern reaches where the Big Macs roam, Tarabirds of the size pictured above are rare. On the fringes of the deep deserts closer to the equator, however, even larger related species ride on the thermals, hunting for stray desert herd animals akin to terrestrial camels.

Not pictured (maybe in the next installment); Avel's Peepers - a fruit-batlike creature that flies during the day, and apparently likes to lick the system's biotic gas giant buildup from the Pride of Parm's fuel scoop manifolds, Lenni's Bazelle - a two legged grazer with markings and behavior very similar to a springbok, but a silhouette like an emu, and Joseph's Naturalist Trapper, a huge blue eyed turtle-like creature that uses a rabbit-like lure of a tongue to draw other predators close enough to snatch into its massive maw. It almost ate the Pride of Parm's science specialist last session, who now repeats "Nevergetofftheship!" in a manner similar to a certain character from Apocalypse Now's "Nevergetofftheboat!Nevergetofftheboat!".