How does Abe breath?

[Goresplatter]

Sorry if it's kinda been brought up before but... Mudokons, must have a sense of smell, surely, because when you stand next to one and fart on AE, they say 'Whoof!' and take a step away. Surely they wouldn't take a step back if they couldn't smell it? If they haven't got some sort of nose somewhere, I'd have to go with the 'tasting smells' like a snake theory,

[glokstar]

I dont know. I just find it so funny that we talk about this. He might very well breath and smell through his toes but he might not. This is so strange to me, cause people tell their interesting ideas, but they only stay interesting ideas for ever. I am tempted to do that too cause its a really interesting topic.

But then we might as well ask: how do Glukkons eat??? And many other questions.

[Arxryl]

how do Glukkons eat? they probably have some tables that are nearly eye level and then chow down so they don't have to bend over. Or maybe they don't eat in public because they don't wish to be disrespected among others.

Just my theory...

[Zerox]

^LOL. Ish. Just sounds funny...
Mudokons smell somehow, obviously. It may be that they have a far superior sense of taste to us and so can sort of taste the air when breathing. This has sorta happened to me, but only with very strong scents.
But I reckon however they smell, can't result in it being much stronger than ours. Birds do not, as a general rule, have a good sense of smell. The only one I can think of off the top of my head that does is the Kiwi, and I doubt Mudokons evolved from Kiwis.
The mudokon tongue as it is is similar to that of a frog, in the sense it can snap out to grab prey such as flies or something. But it is far more thick and muscular, which is how they talk with it also. It may also help them make those amazing whistles.
Since they primarily appear to use their tongue to feed, in a sense, a powerful sense of taste would be thought of.
Or, perhaps, as the air goes down seperate tubes from the mouth to stomach or lungs, somewhere there they perhaps have scent receptors, like the ones inside our noses, just placed further down the osaphagus. Or maybe even in the lungs themselves, or just outside them. Who knows.

[Albino Slig]

Maybe his butt is his nose, since he likes using it...

That's what I was thinking but on Abes exodus whan you walk right by a mudoken and turn around and fart in there face the go "Eww!" Try it. I KNOW it works. Hey guys. This is why its called "ODDworld."

[magic9mushroom]

I am sure they all smell. I mean if OWI put some kind of logic into making these creatures up (which they should have, and im sure they did), than they dont dont split evolution in two saying these guys breath these dont. Think logically: most if not all OW creatures are put out against the same or very similar tipe of environments. even in a factory there is clean enough air to survive. It would not have made sense to niglect the fact that there is air. Evolution takes adventage of the environment.

If it would worth it there would be creatures on eart who dont need oxygen, but there are none such.

There are creatures that don't need oxygen, and even ones that are poisoned by it. eg botulinum bacteria.

About smelling, Sligs can certainly smell (AE intro) and also probably have a nose in all those fleshy tentacles. IMHO, the nose and mouth are separate in Sligs.

[Nauj Zurc Leicam]

What about a pic of a mudokon´s skelleton?

[Xavier]

I'm sorry but they are only in the book, and we don't allow scans to be posted here

[Oddys]

Maybe he breath through his skin, like amphibians do under water.

Could be the reason for their few clothing.

[Nauj Zurc Leicam]

isn´t it cuz he use to be a slave?

[Oddys]

All mudokons wear this. Not only the slaves.

[Jordan]

What I don't get is why they wear them, I mean, it said that Abe's private bits were cut off when he was working at Rupture Farms on the official OW site, so that must apply to all worker class Muds, so why do they wear loincloths? They have nothing to hide... But I suppose it's for decoration or some other reason!

[Oddys]

Mudokon have bottys.

[Jordan]

I'm sorry but... What's a bottys?

[Oddys]

A botty? That's your ass.

[Jordan]

Oh yeah... I'm being stupid today, my mind's gone blank, why did I say bottys!?

[Oddys]

A german shows an american how to speak english. That's odd.


The reason for their cloathing was to hide their asses and maybe some other things.

[Wil]

I mean, it said that Abe's private bits were cut off when he was working at Rupture Farms on the official OW site, so that must apply to all worker class Muds, so why do they wear loincloths?

I’m quite certain it doesn’t say that. Glukkons may remove their eyes, stitch their lips together, cut off their ponytails and remove any cultural fashion, but what would be the point of removing genitals whose only function is likely to be urination?

[E'l Scrabino]

You strike up a good point there, Max.
But i read somewhere that Mudokons have no genitals because the only female around is/are the queen(s)... The loinclothes are decoration, me thinks.

[Slaveless]

I think Alf had clarified in one answer to a fan that Mudokons wear loinclothes for fashion. I remember one of them at least. Actually, I think the profile for Abe says that since he is in the Worker Class for Mudokons, he has no sexual organs. Not exactly they cut their sexual organs off.

[magic9mushroom]

Although he has no sexual organs, he has a projection for removing urine, which is probably covered up for the obvious reason.

[moxco]

Listen up guys, this is oddworld abe could breath through his bum for all we know.

[Zerox]

...
That is the most insane idea ever, Mox.
But you do kinda have a point. But it sees unlikely. They'd suffocate if they got constapated or something.
In the book, a full colour scale map (for the computer models) was shown of Abe. Buttocks were represented, but there was nothing in the front. The developers did actually colour all that was normally hidden by the loincloth, so I presumed they had nothing there, even for urinating.
The loincloths are worn for cultural reasons, whether it be fashion or a specific part of their history that is important to them.

[glokstar]

Well... I dont know but im pretty sure that in the AE movie when Abe falls out of Necrum Mines into Necrum, and lands on a mammoth-like creatures skull and lands on its (theeth??) and hurths himself right between the legs... well he makes a face that shows he has testicles or a sexual organ of some kind. It is unmistakeable a face most guys make in movies when they get hit in the balls.

[Jordan]

The inside bits of the legs, where they join to the body, really hurt when hit there, trust me... It could have just been his legs, or the tooth/tusk could have gone up his ass, you never know!

[Nate]

Yup, that sort of landing would hurt no matter where it hit you. Genitalia are not necessary for this event.

[Oddys]

Maybe he breath through his skin, like amphibians do under water.

Could be the reason for their few clothing.

No opinions about this?

[Nate]

Clearly not.

But I would call it unlikely, as respiration through absorption only works when the skin surface area to body mass ratio is high enough. As objects (and thus creatures) get larger, the mass increases at double the rate of the surface area - imagine a cube then another one double as high, wide and thick; the surface area is four times the size of the original but the mass is eight times. So a large creature like a mudokon could probably not respire through the amount of oxygen available through the skin.

[aaj111]

We still haven't figured this out? Can't we just say that Abe can breathe and smell through his mouth. and that Abe may not have Sexual Organs due to his Class, but you do know that whether or not he does or not, hitting that thing hard would still hurt any part of your body. :P

[Bullet Magnet]

You can have sexual organs and still be infertile. I suspect that they are like that of underdeveloped Drones.