Firebrat

A firebat is a magical creature, related to the silverfish, which can often be found eating left-over caviar. It lives mostly in England, although some have been spotted on ferries to France. It originated from the Peruvian Andes but has now become extinct there due to excessive hunting by the local aborigines. (There are no aborigines in India.)

It is blind, and navigates by echolocation, and sets things on fire by locating boxes of matches, and attempting to mate with them. This makes the firebat one of the most dangerous bat kinds in existence, especially knowing that it is an insect. When found in complex architectural societies it is found to construct complicated devices known as stimpacks.

Identification

Due to the excessive presence of tachyons in its outer carapace, the firebat cannot be detected by visible electromagnetic radiation. This was a source of many lenends about the creature, such as the film Predator, and the cartoon series Thomas the Tank Engine.

The theory of the origins of this fascinating species remains a mystery. Some people suggest that it was a by-product of one of Magical Trevor's famous tricks, which then bred with the conventional bat, to produce the firebat we all know and love today.