We can’t pick objects up using the Vulcan salute or the Get Freaky gesture because our fingers haven’t evolved to operate easily when glued together. They are different lengths, too close together, and too parallel to begin with. Three‐fingered Mudokon hands can wrap around objects plenty well enough to pick them up, if only because of a heightened amount of grip the skin on their palms may be able to exhibit (remember the Muds climbing a wooden wall bare‐pawed at the start of Abe’s Exoddus).
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