Great Porters are (as the name implies) Porters scaled up. They can weigh up to 600 kilos, have a heavy muscular build with four stout legs and two powerful arms and intelligence somewhere between that of a chimpanzee and a human. Like their smaller cousins Great Porters are kept by Artisans as beast of burden, albeit ones with a level of dexterity and flexibilty which eclipses anything terran domesticated animal. Whenever there is a need for lifting and setting down heavy objects with care (stacking crates, laying heavy stones or beams, hammering in spikes, stevedoring) a Great Porter is a useful asset. Though their claws have been diminisehd to nothing they could still theoretically rip a man apart. However Great Porters have been bred to be calm, obedient and have no taste for violence. They usually have harnesses for tools and supplies.