"I see." So big twisty whisker-things that could smell things. That was actually kinda cool, and even if Zelnick was only a dabbler in xenobiology, it made a sort of sense for an amphibious species. There were marine Earth animals that had the same kinds of structures, after all...
Zelnick couldn't help but smile a bit at ZEX's commentary. "It's not like we can help how we evolved," he said, "and the two eyes thing is common in pretty much every Earth animal with a skeleton." There, the conditioner was mostly out of ZEX's hair, and he should probably find a comb to brush it with soon... "And one of the defining aspects of mammals is the hair-or-fur thing. We can't really change that sort of thing."
... Well, actually, they probably could, but that would be almost Umgah-like levels of genetic tampering, something he couldn't see any human scientist getting the permission and supplies for.
(Unless they were Landel. But seeing how Zelnick didn't know what Landel's actual aim was or how he was funded or, really, much of anything about the powers behind this place... yeah.)
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Zelnick couldn't help but smile a bit at ZEX's commentary. "It's not like we can help how we evolved," he said, "and the two eyes thing is common in pretty much every Earth animal with a skeleton." There, the conditioner was mostly out of ZEX's hair, and he should probably find a comb to brush it with soon... "And one of the defining aspects of mammals is the hair-or-fur thing. We can't really change that sort of thing."
... Well, actually, they probably could, but that would be almost Umgah-like levels of genetic tampering, something he couldn't see any human scientist getting the permission and supplies for.
(Unless they were Landel. But seeing how Zelnick didn't know what Landel's actual aim was or how he was funded or, really, much of anything about the powers behind this place... yeah.)