The Gampeo

The Gampeo is a medium sized carnivore which hunts in various waters, the sea, lakes or rivers. The Anapa fish is the favorite prey of this spotted hunter. Females and males look exactly the same, also in body size and concerning the fur pattern. The pattern itself is designed to camouflage the whole creature in a river perfectly, if a fish swims under the creature it sees the light belly which looks similar to the sky through the water, if it swims above the hunter the dots and the brown-ish fur look like the sandy ground with the little stones on it. The paws are big and webbed between the toes and give them very good swimming powers, as well as the big and long newt-like tail, which is a half transparent greenish skin. The whole body is strong but still not thick, it more a long stretched anatomy like an otter has.

Gampeos are held as pets as well as helping hunters specially in fishing, where these little creatures swim around a shoal of fish to push them into a net for example.

Characters in the TI stories of this species:
Yang, the pet of Erik