The Vientedosipede is a rare and lesser known insect species related to the more common millipede and centipede. Unlike its more generously endowed relatives, the Vientedosipede has eleven pairs of legs. The Forest Grove and Silverspring neighbourhoods of Saskatoon are what remains of the last known natural habitat of the Vientedosipede. Some clusters may be still be found in damp areas of the Northeast Swale and in a secret protected area of the Forestry Farm.
Crows and ravens are the only natural enemies of this benign insect. These predators have been observed in savage and cruel behaviours directed at the Vientedosipede; the most alarming is to pluck one of their prey's twenty two appendages, leaving their hapless victim to move only in small circles. This is common enough, that for a time entomologists believed that the twenty one legged variety was a unique species. In 1977, Walter Vale, a research assistant in the Department of Biology, postulated that the liklihood of members of a 21 legged species mating and reproducing was problematic. Vale's hypothesis basically said that such a romantic interlude would depend on a clockwise circling male encountering a counter clockwise circling female during a full moon with Barry Manilow playing on a nearby boom box, which would be a rare occurrance at best. This was proven many years later by a pair of grad students who were testing the hypothesis when they suddenly noticed that a murder of crows was up to something in the park. A closer inspection revealed dozens of hapless twentyone legged Vientedosipedes and twenty four guilty looking crows. (One of the grad students was a fan of Counting Crows.)
A quiet effort to protect this tiny insect is ongoing. Small, subtle warning signs are placed along high fenced in areas surrounding their remaining habitats. There are even a few older signs that remain marking the territory of the erroneously identified twenty one legged beast. Both signs were designed by Walter Vale, the '70s Research Assistant, who went on to great academic distinction and is currently Dean of Biology at Senlac College.