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Another venus critter, the rotik from Burroughs

"a monstrous creatures of the deep, some of which defy description and would challenge belief. The most numerous of these larger creatures must attain a length of fully a thousand feet. It has a wide mouth and huge, protruding eyes between which a smaller eye is perched upon a cylindrical shaft some fifteen feet above its head. The shaft is erectile, and when the creature is at rest upon the surface or when it is swimming normally beneath, it reclines along its back; but when alarmed or searching for food, the shaft springs erect. It also functions as a periscope as the beast swims a few feet beneath the surface. The Amtorians call it a rotik, meaning three-eye. When I first saw one I thought it an enormous ocean liner as it lay on the surface of the ocean in the distance."

Obviously, my version of this thing isn't so big. It might be sperm-whale sized or even better, orca (since orcas are pelagic predators that might have some use for vision while hunting...if they didn't have sonar, anyway). In my next version, I will make it clearer that the eye is on a stalk.

done while listening to: the Appeal, Next

Description
Another venus critter, the rotik from Burroughs

"a monstrous creatures of the deep, some of which defy description and would challenge belief. The most numerous of these larger creatures must attain a length of fully a thousand feet. It has a wide mouth and huge, protruding eyes between which a smaller eye is perched upon a cylindrical shaft some fifteen feet above its head. The shaft is erectile, and when the creature is at rest upon the surface or when it is swimming normally beneath, it reclines along its back; but when alarmed or searching for food, the shaft springs erect. It also functions as a periscope as the beast swims a few feet beneath the surface. The Amtorians call it a rotik, meaning three-eye. When I first saw one I thought it an enormous ocean liner as it lay on the surface of the ocean in the distance."

Obviously, my version of this thing isn't so big. It might be sperm-whale sized or even better, orca (since orcas are pelagic predators that might have some use for vision while hunting...if they didn't have sonar, anyway). In my next version, I will make it clearer that the eye is on a stalk.

done while listening to: the Appeal, Next