It particularly tends to inhabit the foothills near the Blue Taiga. It is one of the most terrifying land animals on Andoria, and adult weighing anywhere between 700 and 950 kg and measuring 3 meters long. Makra fur is short and oily, colored a deep gray. While its eyes, which give it night vision for hunting, are a bright yellow. It produces a bone-chilling call by taking short intakes of breath through its oral ridge, which is described as "like ripping metal: a noise that Vulcans, in particular, find ear-grating."