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Originally Posted by [1ponders]
Zebraskin fontima (I think that's how it spelt) Picked up from a Sci-fi book (can't remember which one) Thick headed lumber beast that has trouble distinguishing between rocks and vegetation to eat.
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Close Paul. Creatures called Zabriskan fontema appear in Doc Smith's "First Lensman".
"... The thing was certainly alive; it throbbed and vibrated with vitality: equally certainly, it was not very intelligent. But it had a definite consciousness of its own existence; and therefore, however tiny and primitive, a mind. Although its rudimentary ego could neither receive nor transmit thought, it knew that it was a fontema, that it must roll and roll and roll, endlessly, that by virtue of determined rolling its species would continue and would increase."