It eats Rats, Blind Dogs, Fleshes, and sometimes people. If a stalker shares some food with this creature, then it might share some very interesting information about the Zone, or tell a story. As soon as the stalker turns around, it stands up straight and attacks with its hypotrophic limb. From afar, it resembles a hunchbacked hermit, and it sometimes deliberately lures unsuspecting stalkers with a request or conversation. This creature is very cunning in most cases, it hides its telepathic limb under a cloak. Supposedly has a hypotrophic limb that enables telepathy. The result of a genetic experimentation, or left-behind people twisted by the Zone's unstable environment.