Appearance:
Lank hair, different forehead, Tympanum-style membranes located at the corner of the jaws which
"pulse".

Physiology:
Physically they're superior to humans: with thicker ribs widened into plates, a larger
heart (about triple the size of a human's), and the ability to leap vertically into trees.

Homeworld:
Equatorial islands - this is where Reed detected a landing craft.
Urquat - A circular tiered city , located in a crater-shaped cavern not far beneath the surface of a
    jungle in the Equatorial island region of the planet.
Flora and Fauna:
"several million chromophyllic plant species".

Culture:
Food:
Pods found high in the trees - they contain fluid and a worm-like creature which is eaten.

Language:
an alien language of chittering growls
The language includes phrases such as:

History:
An unspecified number of centuries ago,
they suffered an unspecified calamity which left them sterile; they
devised a "mutagenic virus" to convert other humanoid species to their
own.   The virus included race
memories and behavioral cues: the spoken language, identification with the
Loque'eque, images of Urquat and a compulsion to return there.

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