This is all assuming Gabbit schools were two‐a‐penny in any given Oddworld ocean, when all we know is that they generally live in the sea. Even the Gabbits we see caught at the start of MO were in freshwater. Grubbs live just around the Mongo, having evolved from the fish there. Gabbits could be just the same. As for the dimensions of the Mongo, bear in mind that the range of the excerpts we saw in SW don’t even go back to the river’s source, let alone through the wilderness region seen in MO.
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Also, as intelligent creatures, Gabbits…
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Although Gabbits are still listed as native on Oddworld.com, the Oddworld Licensing Guide explicitly identifies them wildlife. It seems only natural to me that on a planet with such a huge number of geographically‐limited sapient races of differing evolutionary origins, the lines between various kinds of intelligence and awareness should be much more blurred than they are on Earth. Consider the talking Fuzzles and Chippunkz.