Hi, folks!
I think Dakkan just wanted to play with words when he made the joke about mules, horses and donkeys, since Elum is Mule backwards(everybody knows that).
As another Oddworld creatures(Scrabs=crabs, paramites=parasites), the OWI designers(Farzad, mostly)used a Mule concept to create the Elum.
It doesn't mean that Elum is a Mule, at all!! Both creatures have similarities, and the most evident is that both are "beasts of burden".
Now, let me tell you a bit about Mules. As Dakkan knows, MULES are sterile hibride animals that result from a crossbreed between a HORSE and a DONKEY.
Horses and donkeys are equines from different species, and although they can reproduce among each other, their offsprings(babies, for the german girls that have problem translating difficult words) are sterile, they can't have babies. These offsprings are called MULES
so, the JOKE was: if there is an Elum (mule backwards), there is also a Esroh (horse backwards) and a Yeknod (donkey backwards) that togheter give birth to a Elum (again, mule backwards).
It was a joke, just a joke. A clever one, I'd say...
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