slasher scaling

Ishara caught her breath. Slashers! Man-sized killers that hunted in packs. And if one of the deathrunners, the stronger, eerily cunning herders of the slasher packs, had found the gap in the Wall, a whole group would descend on them.

Kong: King of Skull Island, Chapter 5


“Gaw’s lair,” whispered Kublai. “It has to be. Look.” Ishara saw, nearly hidden behind a craggy overhang, the mouth of a deep, gaping cave. Giant, three-toed tracks came and went in all directions. Criss-crossing them were the odd, two-toed tracks of the deathrunners and slashers, whose third toe left no impression because it was hooked into a horrible claw that was raised above the ground. Kublai knew that with a powerful kick, a deathrunner could use such a claw to rip a man in two.

Kong: King of Skull Island, Chapter 7


He did not see the slasher.
The man-sized creature leaped from ambush, landed atop a pile of tumbled boulders, and then onto Skeets’s back. Its vicious bite snapped his neck, as its sickle-like toe claw nearly sliced him in two.

Kong: King of Skull Island, Chapter 8