It ponders, looking around, it's large mass oddly contorting. Then a second 'head' pokes up looking around, then a third, forth... finally nine different protrusions emerge. After it finishes searching around, and finding nothing to eat in the immediate vicinity it moves... and splits!

This was not one slime, but nine separate ones, merely squished together as they arrived. All nine head out in different directions, spreading down over the hill, each of them barely larger than a small cat in size, rolling or oozing down the slope, some heading towards the town, some off into the countryside.

Soon the citizens of the area would learn a new animal had come to stay, and it was high on the food chain!