Questions about acquiring...

[Yorick Brown]

Maybe the mosquito blood trick was never gonna work?

Maybe you still can only acquire living animals and Jake and co. couldn't have morphed Andershot at all? Ax couldn't correct them because he's no scientist and never paid attention in class to know better.

[Tim Bruening]

well they weren't thinking about acquiring bacteria. remember you have to sort of visualize the animal to acquire it.

The Hidden: How did that buffalo acquire Chapman and Visser 3?  What would have led it to even visualize those two people?

How did the ant acquire Cassie?  (How would an ant visualize Cassie?).

[Tim Bruening]

Of course Bacteria have DNA. But tehy're still not Animals so the Animorphs can't morph them.

The definition of an aninal is specific and universal: A multicellular organism that gets it's energy from other organisms.

Elfangor, the friggin's ALIEN that gave them their powers, SAID animals.

It could be that the Andalites have a blind spot in that area, that being their assumption that no one would want to acquire anything that can't move, so would only acquire animals.

[Dylan]

The Hidden: How did that buffalo acquire Chapman and Visser 3?  What would have led it to even visualize those two people?

How did the ant acquire Cassie?  (How would an ant visualize Cassie?).

The world may never know. It's the magic of Cassie.