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What part of Oddworld are Sligs native to, do we know?
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Well, noone knows. The current only known Slig queen (there must be more than one queen representing the species on a planet 10 times the size of earth) is Skillya, who is being kept with/by industrialists and selling her offspring to them, so the natural habitat may have been where she was before the industrialists came upon her (or her ancestors). But a guess could be that Sligs lived in swamps inaccessible to other predators, which is why they are so useless without artificial upgrades such as legs etc.
Another reason could be that Skillya solely produces mutant offspring, be it a result of habitat, smoking, or her personal bioligy. Sligs DID once have legs. I look at some close up drawings in the Art of Oddworld (pg.66 top left corner for those who have it), and the "tail" is actually vestigial legs, possibly similar to Glukkons, except the laegs are (in evolutionary terms) closer to being gone, or a tail for other purposes perhaps. I can see notable joints, between 'feet' and the knees. They are there. So it may be a result of underuse, possibly based on climate change (if they lived in swamps perhaps, the vines may have been very low growing and branches, forcing them into a constant crawl). They could suck up food with their tentacles, which may have had other uses.
I'm just guessing, but I doubt you'll get much of an improvement apon that.