It's a hunter who kills the prey by screeching at it and making its blood freeze.
The screech causes oscillation in the blood and the platelets start clotting as a result. The prey doesn't get far thereafter and can be feasted upon.

Good call on the forward eyes. I think I'm throwing off by the lack of eyelashes. Eyes are def uncanny in the originally presented version.

I thought it was some kind of not-a-horse coming through some tall wet grass at first.

Then I had to rotate the image and was trying to make sure I got the right end up!

Aww, I think it still has cute ears in it's cryptid form of nothing else. 😉

Amazing what a quick 90 degrees will do! 🙃