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Races from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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This is a list of races featured in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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Fuolornis Fire Dragon

The Fuolornis Fire Dragon is a creature found on Brequinda, on the Foth of Avalars.

The Fuolornis Fire Dragon was a peace-loving species. It is a silk-winged, leather-bodied monster, with breath like a rocket booster and teeth like a park fence. They often accidentally adored things to bits and hurt the ones they loved because of their rocket-booster breath and park-fence teeth.

Despite this, dragons were much liked on Brequinda, because of sex. For some reason it's almost unbearably sexy having huge magical dragons flying low about the sky on sweet and fragrant moonlit nights, which were very common on Brequinda on the Foth of Avalars.

Hooloovoo

Hooloovoos are noncorporeal beings and described as "a superintelligent shade of blue."

One of them worked on the construction of the starship Heart of Gold. At the launching ceremony, the Hooloovoo was refracted into a free-standing prism. Whether this was for its benefit or to make it visible to observers, or both, is not known.

Jatravartids

Jatravartids are small blue creatures of planet Viltvodle VI with more than fifty arms each. They are therefore unique in being the only race in history to have invented aerosol deodorant before the wheel.

Many races believe that the Universe was created by some sort of god or in the Big Bang. The Jatravartid people, however, believe that the Universe was sneezed out of the nose of a being called the Great Green Arkleseizure. They live in perpetual fear of the time they call The Coming of the Great White Hankerchief. Theory of the Great Green Arkleseizure is not widely accepted outside Viltvodle VI.

(A similar concept was used in the short story "God's Nose" by Damon Knight.)

For the forthcoming feature film Douglas Adams created a new character called Humma Kavula, a missionary whose apparent mission is bringing a new religion to the Jatravartids.

Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal

The ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal is a creature that hails from the planet of Traal, and will eat anything. If you are to encounter one, the Guide tells you that it's impossible to slay, so you should wrap a towel around your head. The beast is so stupid, that if you wrap a towel around your head, it will assume that since you can't see it, it can't see you.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

By Douglas Adams

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