The small fire they laid that night was less for warmth than to keep curious creatures away.

As anyone who has rabbit companions knows, they are curious and intelligent creatures.

He squinted at her, not knowing what to make of this curious creature.

There's such a curious creature at the foot of that old tree.

Gloha didn't blame them; it was a most curious creature.

She was about forty, straight, rather hard, a curious, separate creature.

She waited, looking at him, as if he were some curious, not-understandable creature.

Looking toward it they saw emerging from the water the most curious creature either of them had ever beheld.

Boys, curious creatures that they are, are the most likely to be injured.

The short version is thus: a curious creature, indeed.