Visser Three loving Cinnamon buns. Bunz... Zuh...

[Venom]

they can? then why dont taxxon controllers do that?

[zaprowsdower]

I'm surprised like one person has brought up what was obvious to me-the Visser is just too serious to let something like that get to him. Like Estelore said; you can igonore basic urges and reactions if you have enough mental and behavioral self control and single-mindedness as the visser. Ax is a teenager who can allow himself to be silly as a human-the whole duty/fight thing, I think, is sorta put on the backburner when he's in human morph, 'cause he never fights as a human anyway.

[Estelore]

That's actually a point I'd not considered (with Aximili).
He probably doesn't consider the human form to be even remotely useful for self-defense, especially because he can't even WALK in it, really.
He likely views the human body to be a morph for amusement and concealment, and nothing more.

[Duff]

he did have to spend time eating and acting normal doing it tho, a few times, especially in 23 where the whole mission depended on him acting perfectly like tobias' cousin

its def got to do with the yeerks ability to control the host body

[CounterInstinct]

they can? then why dont taxxon controllers do that?

Taxxons don't go crazy about taste. They go crazy about the hunger part.

[Tim Bruening]

Since Visser Three had a human morph, in at least book 6, then why didn't he tend to repeat sounds and like food, just like Ax did? Since it isn't a host, he should be victim to a human's instinct for food, at least. The sounds were understandable since Hork-Bajir also make mouth sounds just like humans. But the food! Its a morph... he should go to the instincts too, right?

Also, if Visser Three tended to go crazy on food in human morph, should Tom be really suspicious when Ax in Jake morph tried to eat every edible (and inedible) thing in the house since Visser Three did it too?

It's not really an instinct.  How many humans do you know that have such a craze for food?  I mean sure, I like my food, but I'm not as mad as Ax about it.  The impression I get from the series is that Ax's reaction was due to him not being used to having the sense of taste.  I'd also imagine, although this is just a theory of mine, that a Yeerk would be better at controlling morph instincts than humans and Andalites can, especially if it's the first morph for both of them, as a Yeerk is used to being in and controlling the body and instincts of other species.

At Overeater's Anonymous, I have encountered people who have gone "binge eating" and gained weight.  They have therefore joined OA to help overcome their binge eating habits.