Keese are, by all metrics; the most important animal in all of Hyrule. These strange bat like creatures transfer nutrients from across not only the surface, but also to the sky islands and the expansive depths beneath Hyrule.
Keese gather in massive swarms of thousands of individuals every night to fly out from their day time roosts to fulfill a macabre but vital role in the ecosystem, they pick clean any corpses and dead animals clean, destroying diseases in their cradles before infecting the water supply or larger animals.
Keese also reproduce explosively, with Keese females laying their eggs within a pouch on the male’s lower side which, the male fertilizes and holds onto until, about 7 weeks later, the eggs hatch and tiny Keese fly out of the pouch to fend for themselves, they provide no care for their young beyond this brooding of eggs.
- Description as written by Princess Zelda Bosphoramus Hyrule, compiler of the Hyrule Historia Naturalis.
Nearly everything eats Keese. Even I do sometimes, they taste somewhat like a gamey fish which, is to be expected since that’s kinda what they are.
- Description from Link, friend, trusted confidant and assistant to the Princess in compiling this information