Gouikio

The organism is a hyperagressive intelligent slime mold that partially eats its victims and uses the rest to build a gestalt body to move and gain senses. It's life cycle involves is going on a rampage killing all it can piling up the dead bodies and dumping spores on the pile to create a new gestalt. This is a is a specimen from a zoo. body is a turtle limbs are giraffe with chimp hands neck is from an elephants trunk and the head is an unlucky zookeeper.

Containment depends on location. high population areas where large scale quarantine is impractical involves burning any infected sites to the ground and salting the entire area is concentrated fungicides to destroy the infestation and minimize casualties

lower population areas have a 3 mile wide quarantine zone around special buildings built specifically to contain and study it with at least thee airlock and decontamination regiments for all leaving and entering personnel who for convenience live on site

All instances are to be fed diced meat to prevent mobile gestalts forming unless an ongoing study requests it.

All Personnel who go into contact with it are required to wear airtight biohazard suits, sprayed with sprayed with liquid fungicide then coated with fungicide powder.

The gestalts show memory capabilities abstract reasoning skills and socioluinguistic skills on par with humans and arnt linked to gestalts with human parts suggesting it is innate to the species, the gestalts display some individual 'personality' raging from being particularly hyperaggressive to non fungal gestalt beings to almost passive and listless unless exposed to blood, in addition they seem to display emotion toward each other ranging from what is presumed to be familial protection of smaller gestalts to 'mourning' the death of a gestalt.

What is believed to be a language has been observed among individuals and has been describes as sounding 'like a mix of speaking in tongues and birdsong' analyzed recordings have picked up the features indicative of a language but thus far denies any and all attempts to decipher.

All personnel encounters thus far have been hostile with security inevitably getting into conflict with any gestalt that notices their presence. with some limited evidence suggesting that certain gestalts can distinguish between and recognize individual personnel