Mammals in Oddworld

[drakan90]

This was slightly touched on in the Females in Oddworld topic.
I know this is a matter of opinion, and that oddworld creatures probably would class themselves differently, but has anyone else noticed the lack on mammal-like creatures on Oddworld?
Its more amphibions, reptiles, and bugs. Plus a few birds. The only real mammals are Fuzzles, Elum, and Meeps. Of course Vykkers and Glukkons arent really either, but I'd say Muds and Sligs look more reptillian. Scrabs and paramites are more like giant bugs.
Your thoughts please.

[Oddish]

Hmm i just think that those are just creature's that are made up, i don't ti realy matters. Mud's i think have something to do with birds. And steef's have hair, and Searex is like a whale.I guess it's a mix of everything.

[Sekto Springs]

SeaRex aren't like whales to my knowledge. They are more a cross between a reptillian serpent and a light fish, all we know is that they are large, slender, self-illuminating creatures.

[Nate]

possibly like pleiosaurs (or however you spell it).

I used to think that muds were like dinosaurs in that they had similarities to both birds and reptiles but really the only reptilian thing about them is their skin colour. They don't even have scales. Its probably closer to frog skin than anything.

While I'm thinking about skin, Munch's is probably closer to a shark's skin than anything else. For those of you who don't know sharks have skin instead of scales. I think they also have small spines that help them glide through water.

[Sekto Springs]

While I'm thinking about skin, Munch's is probably closer to a shark's skin than anything else. For those of you who don't know sharks have skin instead of scales. I think they also have small spines that help them glide through water.

I would think they feel like a frog, wet and smooth. Gabbits are amphibious thus probly feel that way. A shark's skin is more like sandpaper, which is quite the opposite of a frog's in my opinion.

[Nate]

when did you feel a shark's skin? cool. Still I think that Munch would feel like that. He doesn't look as slimy as Abe

[Sekto Springs]

I went swimming with rays. I was shallow-water scuba diving down in the bahamas and I came along a whole bunch of Rays (the kind that don't sting). I felt their skin, it was cool, they were quite friendly. Also I went deep water scuba-diving and I came across a Mantaray, it was atleast 7 feet long and 10 feet wide, it too was very docile and friendly and was happy to let me touch him.

[Xavier]

in my oppinion Munch feels quite smooth... just look at the skin of the gabbits

[Seargentbig]

Good thing I'm here... a sharks skin, while actualy skin and not skales, has the texture of sandpaper.
Most of the animals on Oddworld are probably something apart from mammals, reptiles, ect. This isn't to say that these won't be there, just that there will be species on oddworld that will be apart from how we classify animals on earth.
...and before ayone says anything about animals and mammals, animals are not only mammals.

[VaniLLaKiLLah]

i think the mammal thing is like the mammal thing with lions. there is one female alpha-lion who gives birth to the babies, the other females are not fertile. the alpha-lion can breastfeed the babies, but the other female lions can do, too. so they have "breasts".
maybe that's like the way it works on oddworld.

for the egg-laying species: on earth is also a mammal-spiecies who lays eggs (i forgot the name).

cheers,
.:VaniLLaKiLLah:.

[Xavier]

like the ornithorhyncus who is ovoviviparous?
thus an egg-laying mammal?

[Esus]

Munch's skin reminds me of dolphins.
In Oddworld, we cannot possibly classify them under Reptile/Mammal etc, because many of the creatures can fit into multiple categories.
Oddworld needs it's own classification.

[drakan90]

like the ornithorhyncus who is ovoviviparous?

lol. Or a Platipus, but that works too I suppose... lol

[Xavier]

Esus, yeah dolfin seems quite close

Drakan, that's the same animal, right?

[Nate]

for the egg-laying species: on earth is also a mammal-spiecies who lays eggs (i forgot the name).

the group of animals is called monotremes - mammals that lay eggs. The only two species of monotremes are platypii and echidnae (okay, for anyone who didn't realise, those are the plural spellings of platypus and echidna). The eggs themselves are closer to crocodile eggs than chicken eggs - no hard shell, but jelly-like and rubbery

[Wil]

Bah, Esus (and actually Esus this time, and not Nate) said all I all was gonna say, i.e. dolphin skin and different catagorisation. Even the Meetle-like creature from the MO opening sequence has a skeleton, and Elums can't be mammels as they have no hair (having said that, I think whales only have traces of 'extinct' hair).

[Sekto Springs]

Yes. Orca whales have signs of hair growth on their lips. Proven fact.

[Seargentbig]

Munch's skin reminds me of dolphins.
In Oddworld, we cannot possibly classify them under Reptile/Mammal etc, because many of the creatures can fit into multiple categories.
Oddworld needs it's own classification.

Um... well... yeah... that's what I said... exept easier to understand...

[Killa_47]

Yeh they do need there own catagory......because abe is alien/horse.

lol

horse if you look at his hair!

[Sekto Springs]

Yeh they do need there own catagory......because abe is alien/horse.

lol

horse if you look at his hair!

I don't think Abe's hair resembles a horse's hair in the least. You're strange, Killa, I mean that. You're strange.

[drakan90]

I think he was joking, lol.
I still think Elum are mammal-like though...

[Wil]

Mammal-like is a decent enough term. Better than calling Munch 'a fish', when he clearly only shares a few properties with such creatures, most of them relating to the way Gabbits are caught and eaten. Earthly taxonomical words, perhaps, should be thought of as layman descriptions only, and not a classification.

I don't know that I'd like Oddworld to be given a system of catagorising creatures, though. As much as I realise this is a distinct possibility as so many Oddworld creatures share characteristics that just demand you fit them together in a family tree (the cast of the new game included), it could be.

[drakan90]

Well I did say mammal like in the first post too, although lots of people seem to have missed that...

Yeah I think an oddworld classification system would be cool, but I think it might be too complicated, if you see how many catergories and sub catergories there are...

[Nate]

Mammal-like is a decent enough term. Better than calling Munch 'a fish', when he clearly only shares a few properties with such creatures, most of them relating to the way Gabbits are caught and eaten.

Yeah, he's obviously an amphibian, particularly in that the methods of reproduction resemble those of frogs very closely - eggs, tadpoles/gabbiwogs. That said, the scene with all the gabbits feeding always reminded me of platypii hunting for food. I'm not sure why, just something in the way they swim.

[drakan90]

This is probably a bit off topic, but I think SeaRex' bodies would perhaps resemble Mosasaur

[ANN NEELY]

I would have to agree. They probably resemble Plesiosaurs or Mosasaurs.

[Sekto Springs]

I guess, but they are also self-illuminating.

[Wil]

Who says??

[drakan90]

Plesiosaur? Nah, I dont think so. They have large bodies, long necks, and small heads. I imagine a searex to be basically one long shape, like a mosasaur. (and I know which dinosaurs I'm talking about because I was obsessed with them when I was younger... )

[Software Bug]

It looks like a searex!! but there is only a head of searex official is it.
or does anyone has more than the head bit???