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Originally believed to be a mutant strain of [[Tyranid Warrior]]<sup>1-p.23</sup> due to the close physical resemblance, more recent encounters with the Zoanthrope strain have reported a different physical structure apparently engineered by the harvesting of lifeforms present in the path of the [[Hive Fleets]]. Various evidence points to these later incarnations of Zoanthropes being improved by [[Eldar]] DNA.<sup>2</sup> Zoanthropes have atrophied bodies and limbs but, energised by psychic forces, they appear to levitate, drifting over the battlefield. They also seem to be [[synapse creature]]s, relaying the commands of the [[Hive Mind]] to lesser creatures.
Despite their seeming frailty, Zoanthropes are lethal opponents. Zoanthropes possess batteries of psychic power they can use to both defend themselves and launch assaults that are powerful enough to destroy enemy battle tanks.<sup>1</sup> However, Zoanthropes are predisposed to sedentary behavior, a stance adopted to conserve their psychic power, when not in the presense presence of the Hive Mind.<sup>3</sup>
[[Image:Zoanthrope.jpg|thumb|right|A Zoanthrope]]
