Doctor Who: 10 Secrets Of Skaro You Need To Know
8. It's Home To A Race Of Mutated Cannibals
Considering that the Daleks love themselves a scrap, Skaro has seen many battles over its lifetime.
One of the biggest was the Thousand Year War, a clash between the Kaleds and the Thals which resulted in Skaro being ravaged by radiation. This radiation created a toxic land, and this toxic land birthed a brand-new race, of sorts: the Mutos.
In the 1975 serial Genesis Of The Daleks, Kaled Commander Nyder states that the Mutos are "scarred relics", monsters that were created by the chemical weapons used during the war. Essentially mutated Kaleds or Thals, Mutos live out in the wastelands of Skaro, banished to a life of scavenging and hiding, and one of the reasons they're able to survive might be because they'll do anything it takes to keep their bellies full.
And by "anything" we really do mean anything: as mentioned in the Big Finish Audio dramas titled Davros and Purity, the Mutos are known to engage in cannibalism.
Yummy.
Not all Mutos are mindless, shambling beasts mind you (some are genuinely harmless), so it's likely that only the most primitive forms of Mutos actually have a desire to munch on the flesh of their own species.