Editing Pak Protector (section)

{{Short description|Fictional form of life in Known Space}}
{{Short description|Fictional species in works of Larry Niven}}

[[File:Protector-Niven-cropped.jpg|thumb|Phssthpok, a Pak Protector eating Tree-of-Life root in the Library on the Pak homeworld]]
'''Pak Breeders''' and '''Pak Protectors''' are two developmental stages of [[fictional]] life in [[Larry Niven]]'s [[Known Space]] universe. The Pak first appeared in "The Adults", which appeared in ''[[Galaxy Science Fiction|Galaxy]]'' in 1967; this story was expanded into the novel [[Protector (novel)|''Protector'']] by Larry Niven (1973). The Pak also appear in several of Niven's later novels, notably those set in the [[Ringworld]].

''[[Destroyer of Worlds (novel)|Destroyer of Worlds]]'' depicts a confrontation between the Pak and the [[Pierson's Puppeteers|Puppeteers]].