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This is kinda off topic, but I think maybe, at the beginning of the game, he starts out human-looking, and, as a result of the "rabies", he turns into that anthro-cougar thingie...
And, you have to admit, although it sounded lame in the original article in GameInformer, that might be because most people wouldn't have understood a bunch of Oddworldian terminology, so they described it in a way that the average Non-Oddworld fan would have understood...
My girlfriend, who is not a nerd like us, agrees. She says others of her kind would not have had enough of an attention span to sit through reading a lengthy description that would have made sense to any of us Oddworldophiles...