Opinion has been divided as to butchertrees' botanical or animal lineage at first. Their treelike appearance is belied by their behavior. It is a predatory organism very different from any tree ever seen. On several occasions these "trees" fold and open their long, sharp, twitching limbs in a grotesque slow-motion pantomime of a kill. Often, too, there are dried carcasses stuck on their spear-point branches. Throughout the day, the butchertree catches a few victims, mostly prismalopes lured in by chasing the unnamed flyers.