They are intelligent, they have to have weapons of some type to word off danger. They are definatly not animals. Comeon people there anouther race like Mudokins only under water. You make it sound as if they are wild life. Oddworld is deversed with countless races. Not just Mudokins, Sligs, Vykkers, Interns, and Glukkens. Theres thousands maybe even millions more out there. Just because something looks like a fish and not a humanoid doesent mean it is wildlife it's just a very strange looking being thats all. Yes there are wild life I don't think Lanning wanted Munch or any of the characters of the quintology to be animals. He wanted to explore people of anouther world and he did a superb job in doing so.
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