Predator, that’s what you’re seeing and sensing. Sets off a primordial response. If there were instances of populations crossing paths, I have a pretty good sense of who wanted to kill and eat whom.
Of course, it’s an artist’s conceptualization and could very well be wildly wrong. It illicits the response intended.
Close. Lions and cheetahs are predators however and they don’t generate anything like the reaction that thing does. There’re probably some really bad racial memories involved with that thing.