K-G cattle beast

A "cattle beast" was one of the native life forms of the planet K-G. They had four legs, yellow bodies and black spots. The consumed them for food, using running vine plants to capture them and place them in enclosures, and tumbleweed plants to herd them.

In 2266, a USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) landing party observed the cattle beasts being herded to by the tumbleweed plants to the plant species, which then consumed them, and realized that this was the intended fate for the captured Janice Rand.