the hunger grew quickly , though , and , in spite of his good intentions about stalling as long as he could , it was less than two hours later that he rose and walked out to check his catch - two grasshoppers ( almost identical to the locusts of earth , but warm-blooded and able to nurse their young from tiny , fleshy nipples at the joints of their carapace ) , and a gordita , one of the fuzzy round marsupials that the colonists called `` the little fat ones of the virgin . ''