The largest species of cyclent. Its wheels are cyllindrical and very wide, the posterior one up to 5 metres wide and the anterior one up to 9 metres wide. The leg is armored and the arm even more so, covered in plates. The head is also covered with bony plates, and there are small crests over each of the 3 eyes. The back of a walsenbeest has 8 spines in 4 pairs.
Its beak is large, but its primary feeding organ is its sticky and prehensile tongue, which can almost reach the sides of its anterior wheel. The beak is still used to crush whatever the wheel did not.
Its lateral eyes sit high on its head, patrolling its surroundings as well as what comes before it. These eyes also glow, beaming greenish at the path ahead. The median eye looks at the ground, where food sits.
As the walsenbeest rolls, it flattens the vegetation and even rocks ahead, creating roads which are then used by the many other cyclentes of the Roaded Galleries. Meanwhile, its immense size and thick armor prevent it from being hunted by the predators of this ecosystem.
The large body of the walsenbeest, when dead, becomes a massive carcass prized by any and all scavengers.
From the Dutch walsen flatten [with a roller] + beest beast.