What is the animal kingdom equivalent of a dragon?
Totally unrelated to anything really porny. Sort of. (Pondering on the little folk, big world stories again).
What would you say was the temperate forest/field animal equivalent of a dragon to something 8” tall? Real animals. Maybe something slightly fictitious as the world might be post-apocalyptic. But something large (up to maybe canine size), menacing, mobile, clever, devious.
Not necessarily lizardy, flying, fire breathing. Just something that can have a mythology about it.