Although this is only somewhat related to Oddworld, there is evidence that Cows have gotten dumber since we picked them as a food source. For instance, if you leave a cow on a verdant hillside alone, it will eat all the grass in the area, then simply stay put and die. Meaning an animal fitted to survive in the wild would go ove the hill and find the rest of the grass. Cows nowadays are too dumb to go searching for food when they're hungry.
As for mudokons ability to be bred, I had forgotten to take into account the mating system (What with the queen and drones and all) but the Vykker's probably could give Sam less of certain nutrients to create dumber Muds; but that's just silly. The Muds are already slave labor, and I can't see why Vykkers or Gluks would go to the trouble of making dumber slaves. Though back in the day southern plantation owners did try to breed their slaves to be bigger, stronger, and dumber; as death rightly noted, such a system could not be implemented for Mudokons.
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