Dugs are an aggressive mammalian species native to the planet Malastare that use their upper limbs as legs and their lower limbs as arms.

Dugs are slender, powerfully built beings with a somewhat humanoid build and a unique method of walking that hails from the high gravity world Striar III. Their primary means of locomotion are their strong arms, and their lower limbs and feet are used for grappling and other fine motor manipulation. They hardly ever walk on their lower limbs. Although most Dugs may walk on all four limbs, others like to use their strong arms as legs and their feet as hands like they would normally do.

Dugs have smooth skin, which hangs loosely around their tall necks, only to inflate during mating season calls. They also posses fin-like ears and pronounced snouts. They live mainly in the forests of the western continent of their homeworld in primitive tree villages called «tree thorps». On their homeworld Striar III, the Dugs are arboreal beings. They brachiate among the canopies with alarming speed, using all four limbs.