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Property	Value
rdfs:label	Gabbleduck
rdfs:comment	The Gabbleduck is a large, four-armed creature named for its duck-like beak containing "holly-leaf-shaped" teeth, while official illustration shows it to resemble a caiman. The Gabbleducks are derived from the Atheter, an ancient civilization that devolved voluntarily to escape the influence of mutadaptogenic Jain technology and left instructions to return them to limited sapience in the infostorage hotworld the Golem Mk. 35 "Cento" investigated in Brass Man. In The Line of Polity, Gabbleducks are a constant hazard for any on the former Theocracy farm-world Masada, due to their being not particularly resilient but capable of being deceptively stealthy for their 3-5 meter bulk and capable of achieving speeds rivaling that of a small bus.
Length	3
dcterms:subject	Non-Sapient Species Stub Sapient Species The Polity Universe
sapience	Varies
Behavior	If nonsapient, territorial and violent. If sapient, humanlike and reserved.
Locomotion	Bipedal
dbkwik:aliens/property/wikiPageUsesTemplate	dbkwik:resource/cSrq40Ea0CRkcedbtnHjYg==
Origin	Atheter
Status	Variantly sapient
Habitat	Nitrogen Swamp/Marsh
Name	Gabbleduck
Language	Gabbled Polity Standard , Polity Standard
Weight	7
Height	4
Lifespan	Unknown
Universe	Neal Asher's Polity
Diet	Theoretically omnivorous, functionally carnivorous
World	Masada, previously intergalactic
Creator	Neal Asher
abstract	The Gabbleduck is a large, four-armed creature named for its duck-like beak containing "holly-leaf-shaped" teeth, while official illustration shows it to resemble a caiman. The Gabbleducks are derived from the Atheter, an ancient civilization that devolved voluntarily to escape the influence of mutadaptogenic Jain technology and left instructions to return them to limited sapience in the infostorage hotworld the Golem Mk. 35 "Cento" investigated in Brass Man. In The Line of Polity, Gabbleducks are a constant hazard for any on the former Theocracy farm-world Masada, due to their being not particularly resilient but capable of being deceptively stealthy for their 3-5 meter bulk and capable of achieving speeds rivaling that of a small bus.