Roughly translates from
Latin to
English as "
Dawn Thinker"
Also a painting by Wayne Douglas Barlowe in his book Expedition. The Eosapiens are a race of neanderthal-intelligence beings on this world being explored by the fictional author of the book. They have two arms, a body and connected head, and a gas bag connected to their back, which they can inflate and deflate at will. This allows them to fly in the low gravity of their homeworld.
The Eosapien has learned to pick up shards of rock, and as a pack, drop them as to form a cage to surround prey, and they can then close in and rip the prey to shreds by hand. Of course, one assumes it would be easier to drop the rock directly ON the prey and knock it out...