From the ‘Encyclopedia of Marvels, Life Forms and Other Phenomena of Zamonia and its Environs’ by Professor Abdullah Nightingale Kackertratts. Unpopular animal mutation combining the genes of pigeons, rats, and cockroaches. Four to five feet long, Kackertratts are arge canal rats with pigeon's wings, birdlike beaks and legs, and antennae and digestive organs of that of cockroaches. Their sole legacy from the rat is their long, rubbery tail. Even the most painstaking autopsies have failed to discover the Kackertratt's brain. The bodies control mechanism is therefore assumed to be located somewhere in the gastro-intestinal tract, which forms a bulk in the creature's innards. Also lacking a heart, but this deficiency is offset by and outsized liver capable of digesting the most poisonous food