Differences between males and females on Oddworld

[Nate]

Lol, Nate.
Gabbits do have females, though. Possibly they're a bisexual species.

Ummm... Do you mean hermaphroditic? cos bisexual implies that they have distinct sexes and that the members regularly shag members of their own sex. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

++ Just checked OW.com. There is no comment for Munch on whether Gabbits are hermaphrodites or not so I assume they aren't

[drakan90]

Learn your phrases before confusing poor fools like me Max!

[Oddish]

Let's just stick to normal sexual gabbits, it would make more sense.

[Wil]

They're a bisexual species; the species has two sexes, just as a biplane has two wings. Words can mean more than one thing, scientific words are no exception.

There's nothing on Oddworld.com, but there are other sources of information. It was in one of Paul O'Connor's MO designer diaries. Having said that, it could be that the females are again queens, and that each pod has it's own queen. We know each pod is (at least regarded as) a self-contained family.

[Xavier]

Oddworld should write an encyclopedia, explaining all the tiny bits of the oddworld universe, and they could start right now, publishing an article on Oddworld.com explaining the reproductions ways of Oddworld's creatures


I'm asking too much again, but hey, I can perhaps give OWI ideas

[Oddish]

Another book "The Encyclopedia of Oddworld . 1994-2004" Seem's a lot work to produce a thing. I think Oddworld dos'nt need an encyclopedia, we must know for our selfs, and OWI are a hard working company, i do beleive.

[Xavier]

that's why I suggest to puclish some articles on Oddworld.com

[Nate]

They're a bisexual species; the species has two sexes, just as a biplane has two wings. Words can mean more than one thing, scientific words are no exception.

yes, words can mean more than one thing but it tends to help when both meanings are widely accepted rather than just one.

[Wil]

Are you trying to insinuate my use of the word 'bisexual' is rare?

[Cyber-Slig]

I always thought gabbits bred like frogs

[drakan90]

Yeah thats what I thought, until all these crazy forum people said all these theories. I still think they breed like frogs, Males fertilise the eggs. (otherwise why would they be after them in MO, Munch is obviously male, and no one go on about how oddworld has different species and sexes and yadda)

Whenever I say Bi-sexual, I mean some one who likes it...both ways. If y'know what I mean....

[Wil]

Munch may still need to fertilise the eggs, but then he may have gone to capture them just to let them hatch. Nothing was mentioned either way. And frogs reproduce bisexually - they mate, and the females lay fertilised eggs.

[drakan90]

Caviar cant hatch when you buy it, so why should Gabbit eggs? Its the same princaple (roughly)

[Wil]

Caviar comes from fish, most often sturgeon. Gabbits are more amphibeons than fish. Their eggs are more like frogspawn than fish eggs.

EDIT: I suggested that, as far as any source of info could tell me, caviar is fertilised. The answer to why caviar does not hatch is not so much because they are unfertilised (which is the case), but because they are not actually fully mature.

But, I'm thinking the whole deal with Gabbiar is that it make a completely unsubtle jab at the caviar industry's effects of fish stocks, and not meant to provide so much information of Gabbit development cycles.