Kirk couldn't rightfully say he had wrangled any animals of this sort before. They had gathered up smaller life forms to send back for study from healthy populations, but nothing nearly this large. The ships would not have been able to handle them, to say the least, but he had certainly spent time running from creatures this large.

"Maybe one of us should try luring them, or at least calming them down. They're not totally wild, right? The food method could work pretty good here."