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ctack 11 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Why today's humanoids won't learn dexterity

In one of Philip Pullmans His Dark Material novels there is a race of creatures that have a symbiosis with a tree whose huge perfectly round nut can be grasped by their fore and hind limbs and they roll around that way.

protocolture 11 months ago [–]

One of the Animorphs spin offs had them too, it was meant to be specifically genetically engineered or something from distant memory.

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