On 15 December 2017 at 17:43, Postmark <xxxxxx@btinternet.com> wrote:

On 15 Dec 2017, at 12:07, Timothy Collinson <xxxxxx@port.ac.uk> wrote:
> wanders off thinking "never mind the equines and canines,
> what about the mountable castoridae?"

Meh!

Spelljammer promised me Giant Space Cricetinae - that what I’m holding out for!

http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/on-ecology-of-giant-space-hamster.html

I particularly like the origin theory:
Every time a rules lawyer makes a GM cry, a different space hamster is born!

LOL!

Although, wasn't there a giant space hamster in a recent Mongoose book? Hang on a minute while I rootle through some titles.

OK, not what I was looking for but there's the 'Walston' on page 13 of Spinward Marches 1: The Bowman Arm which I'd forgotten about. A herbivore grazer the size of a rabbit. Definitely hamsterish! Looks even more hamsterlike on p.10 of High and Dry. (But you need the newer version of the H&D PDF or the print version as the ealier one I have doesn't have the Walston image.)

OK, I could have sworn the image I was after was in a MgT2 adventure but I can't locate it at present, might keep looking... :-)

<wonders off this time wandering if he should have added all animals to the contents listings of the bibliography> [1]

[1] But they're long enough given that they currently include every map from planet scale upwards, every world with a map/UWP/description, every ship with deck plans, every named adventure or scenario (unless it's a very short seed) and much more, so I'd hate it to get out of hand... it's already 336 pages...!