Seiners

Living in the lower canopy of the forests, Seiners have the closest classification of mammal, although they are hairless (as far as anyone has been able to tell), and nobody is entirely sure how their young are birthed. The few people who've escaped their traps have claimed to see nipples on the underside of the beasts, but that is as much information as most have.

A denizen of both the boreal rainforests and the narrow band of tropics on Underhill, seiners find trees with sturdy lower branches, wrap their bodies around the trunk and or/branch, and let the long filaments of their 'manes' trail down to the ground below. These filaments are partially ambulatory and grow as loops instead of individual strands. A seiner with spread them out horizontally before letting them stretch down off the branches. Larger seiners, of course, have a larger spread, sometimes the width of an entire tree's branches. The filaments look like various species of moss, or vines, depending on the region, and most animals and insects passing by don't notice the trap. Humans learned to steer clear of any hanging moss or vines at all, but that came later.

The seiner waits for the prey to step on the spread filaments, which are coated in a sticky substance that picks up all manner of forest detritus, and acts as a mild neurotoxin as well. Not unlike that of the sprite's food swings. On feeling the prey touch the filaments, the seiner contracts and retracts, pulling its prey up to the hunter. In the case of smaller animals, this is enough to bring the food to the hunter. In the case of larger prey, such as humans, the seiner will often have to add teeth and claws to the equation. They do this in any case, either dropping out of the tree, or grabbing their prey with teeth and fore claws, and either eating it whole, or rendering it dead within moments of making the catch.