Humans have genetically engineered goats to produce spider silk proteins in their milk.

I'm not sure if that's relevant but it is wierd.

I should also think the yellow-lighting fireflies of the caves around the Mongo Valley are in some way related to the white-lighting fireflies of the Stockyards (etc).

One interesting thing is that the only species to react to the Mudokon's chant (other than the default being possessed) are fireflies and the birds. This connection might be more profound than at first glance. Perhaps in Oddworld birds did not evolve from reptiles, but rather from flying bugs? So an hypothetic evolution could be: Fireflies>Birds>Mudokons?

Or Birds->Muds and Birds->Fireflies seperately. After all, we never saw the fireflies to confirm that they are, in fact, insects. They may be a small, phosphorescent bird. But I doubt it.

I'd just say that chanting causes a mystical energy that can affect many creatures in different ways.

There's also the fact that certain Oddworld 'insects' have most un-insect-like skeletons.

Has no one thought of the simialarity of of meebs and meetles/mugs? They have the same type of eyes and their body is simialar.

Meebs? Do you mean Meep (it's the same word singular and plural, just like with sheep)? I doubt they're related at all. Meep are soft and fluffy whilst Meetles have shells. Also there's the fact that Meep have only one leg.

well the only creature I can relate to meeps is the gabbit... because of the only leg
but that's a bit weak as similitude

And Ratz. I just think that that there is a whole stream of Oddworld creatures with single legs. I'm not sure if that means that they are closely related or not.

From a technical perspective, it's because it is easier to animate groups of creatures with only one leg instead of many.

When I was playin' SW, in the Grubb caves especially I kept seeing those firefly things. My first thought was they were Zappflies...

And does anyone else think that Meeches and Scrabs look very similar?

Oh, an this is a picture I was sent by Dark Elite_H2 to explain about the Oktigi etc.

I think they do too. They seem to have a common ancestor or something.

Not really. They have vaguely similar body shapes but their mouths and legs are totally different.