LIJI, again, have you even bothered looking at muds? Cartoony as hell. There's a good mixture of more "realistic" creatures vs. the more "cartoony" creatures. The thing that makes them look so cartoony are usually the eyes, because for some reason a majority of creatures on oddworld either have enormous eyes or no eyes at all.
Also taking into account that in Oddworld there isn't meant to be anything from Earth on the planet, those bats, bees, and birds are probably something like boombats (or something closely related that doesn't explode), stingbees (even though they seem more like wasps than bees), and I'm not sure what the birds could be. I don't believe we've been introduced to a bird like creature besides mudokons and clakkerz.
There's nothing wrong with "mixing" the creatures from the different games. They all live on oddworld, and the only reason for them not to be in there is because they're not compatible with the environment. Ratz are compatible with the environment. Have a few of them running around in Rupture Farms as ambient creatures, like the birds in the Monsaic Lines. Meeps? Not so much. There's no reason for meeps of all things to be in any of the levels because they aren't compatible with any of the environments. So on and so forth.
The only reason for anyone to object to other creatures being added in AO is purely nostalgia, and that's neither a good nor a valid reason.
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