<P> Sleestak eggs are gestated in a communal hatchery . The Sleestak capture live animals and tie them up there, leaving them for the young to feed on when they hatch . Occasionally, a Sleestak will be hatched that is a "throwback" to their Altrusian ancestors, being born with greater intelligence and with an innate knowledge of Altrusian history and technology--though not, for some reason, knowledge of the pylons or matrix operation . The other Sleestak regard these throwbacks as a threat, and so they are also sacrificed to the Sleestak god when detected . One such throwback, named S'latch, is encountered by the Marshalls in the episode "The Hole", but S'latch is never seen again thereafter . </P> <Ul> <Li> S'latch was to have returned in an unproduced script called "The Littlest Sleestak" in which he comes to claim a juvenile Sleestak that the Marshalls had adopted after unknowingly taking home several of their eggs . However, the little one (now referred to as "Speaks - To - Meat" by the other Sleestak) is considered "tainted" by human contact and thus deemed unfit . </Li> </Ul> <Li> S'latch was to have returned in an unproduced script called "The Littlest Sleestak" in which he comes to claim a juvenile Sleestak that the Marshalls had adopted after unknowingly taking home several of their eggs . However, the little one (now referred to as "Speaks - To - Meat" by the other Sleestak) is considered "tainted" by human contact and thus deemed unfit . </Li> <P> The Sleestak are governed by both a Council and a Leader . The Sleestak Leader wears a distinctive pendant and Enik occasionally negotiates with him as in the episode "Fair Trade". The Council often consults the "Library of Skulls" where several skulls belonging to their ancient ancestors are somehow able to communicate with them and dispense advice . </P>

Pictures of sleestak from land of the lost