Kurja

"They, in their senses and their moves, resemble jackals in the plains of Africa."

- David Aguilar describes the Kurjas after the Narrator introduces them.

Kurjas are predatory animals native to the tidally-locked world of Aranel, in orbit around a red dwarf star. They are introduced after the Pinapod.

Biology
Kurjas resemble jackals in Africa, and they see in infrared vision as they inhabit the darker regions of their tidally-locked homeworld. These animals hunt in packs, constantly hunting Pinapods or herds of them. Kurjas have two sets of eyes on their faces: two large yellow ones in the front similar to the eyes of an owl which are used to see normally, and two small blue ones in the back that allow them to see in the infrared spectrum, detecting the heat signatures of their prey or anything around them, for a total of four. Their size is around 4 times that of a standard Pinapod.

Appearances

 * The Universe, s03e05, "Alien Faces" (2008)