FREQUENCY: Very rare ([Temperate Wilderness Forest], [Temperate Wilderness Swamp], [Temperate Wilderness Forest])
FREQUENCY: Very rare ([Tropical Wilderness Swamp])
FREQUENCY: very rare ([Dungeon Level VII])
NO. APPEARING: 1 (or 2-4)
ARMOR CLASS: 6
MOVE: 12" @ 9"
HIT DICE: 12
% IN LAIR: 15%
TREASURE TYPE: [SB]
NO. OF ATTACKS: 3
DAMAGE/ATTACK: 7-12/1-3/1-3
SPECIAL ATTACKS: [SB] <Rend>
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Camouflage
MAGIC RESISTANCE: Standard
INTELLIGENCE: Semi-
ALIGNMENT: Neutral
SIZE: L
LEVEL/X.P. VALUE: V | 3000 + 16

Squealers inhabit only temperate to tropical forests.
They are usually solitary,
although there is a 1O% chance that an encounter with a mated pair (and up to 2 young) will occur.
Young have 1-2 HP per die and can bite only, doing 1-4 points of damage.

Although a squealer cares nothing for treasure, most prey will be
dragged near the lair to be devoured, so there can be items of value
there. A squealer can imitate many sounds perfectly, so it will imitate
the distress calls, death shrieks, mating calls, etc., of other creatures to
attract prey. Squealers are voracious beasts and will attack any other
carnivores or herbivores. Typically, the squealer will crouch upon a low
branch, and, when a victim comes near, the monster will grasp the limb
it is upon with 3 of its appendages and swing head down to bite and claw
its prey.

Rend: If both claw attacks succeed, the squealer has grasped and held
its victim and will fall upon it next round doing 5-8 points of crushing
damage and 2 additional clawing attacks.

* The attack mode is bite, claw,
claw, claw, claw (7-12/1-3 x4). The squealer has 18/00 strength and
weighs 400 or more pounds.

Camouflage: When amidst foliage, the squealer's bulk is 75% invisible due to its
coloration, stillness, and care in concealment. If attacking by surprise,
the squealer adds +2 to each attack both to hit and to damage. It is 50%
1ikelytosurpriseavictim.

A squealer is very fierce. When full grown, it is
about the size of a large gorilla and is a match for almost anything. The
fur of a squealer is long and colored yellow and green in alternating
splotches. Its form is topped by hunched shoulders and a thrustforward,
pig-like head. The head is about 2 feet long and is mostlymouth
filled with sharp tushes. The arm-like forelimbs sprout from the
hunched back, and the rear limbs come from high up on the hindquarters.
The forelimbs are nearly 4 feet long and rear ones are 3feet long.A
5th limb grows from the middle of the back, and its 4-fOOt length can be
turned either forward or rearward. All limbs are tipped with 3 clawed
diQits. The forelimb and back appendage digits are prehensile.