Questions about acquiring...

[musicman88]

I always wondered why they never accidentally acquired bacteria or something else that was on their hands at the time...

[morfowt]

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

[Phoenix004]

Yeah, otherwise I'd accidentally acquire every animal or human they touched.

[Duff]

Unless I'm much mistaken, Starfish have no brains. However, Rachel still morphed one. Perhaps the mind of the morpher is stored in Z-space and connected to the body via the morphing technology?

bingo, they say this in the book where ax explains the bag of matter being pushed into zspace and all that fun stuff, im pretty sure it was 18

[Yorick Brown]

Bacteria are not animals. They're Monerans. Two completely different kingdoms.

[morfowt]

Bacteria are not animals. They're Monerans. Two completely different kingdoms.

do they have DNA?

[Estelore]

They have something very similar to DNA, but more primitive.

[morfowt]

well then, it still fits what we're talking about

No I mean since this is alien technology it should not be specific to animals since animals are just a kingdom classified by humans. Since DNA is DNA that means the animorphs should be able to morph bacteria or plants. However, they could not exert control over something without a central nervous system. Oh jellyfish would be possible because though they lack a brain they do have a nervous simple.

[Yorick Brown]

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.

[morfowt]

well tell that to wolfev then.

[Gafrash]

Yeah, The Decision has complicated the issues with the acquiring ability. But that book itself confirmed the Andalites realized that the Anirmophs themselves had more morphs than their own Andalite spies. So the Animorphs are really the ones pushing the boundaries of this piece of techonolgy.

Has anyone ever done a count on which animals were unaffected by the 'drowsy' effect that comes with the acquiring process?

Oh! And here's another question.
I always wondered, say in the case of Cassie, if she wanted to morph back to a catterpillar, would she be unable to due to the metamorphosis into her butterfly morph... Has the metamorphed DNA remain in the system, too?? And if so, would the new morph be preserved?

[morfowt]

Has anyone ever done a count on which animals were unaffected by the 'drowsy' effect that comes with the acquiring process?

I remember 2. Tobias's dolphin, and David's cobra

[Phoenix004]

It's weird that the Dolphin Tobias acquired didn't go into a trance, as the other Dolphins did when the other Animorphs acquired them. I'm guessing it was just a fluke, like the sedative effect has a very small chance of failing.

[morfowt]

maybe tobias acquired a different dolphin from the others. and that particular dolphin had something special about it that made it immune...

[Raskipper]

After reading #18, I think that the big deal isn't tissue or having a brain.  I think that it has to do with the actual flow of blood.  Example:  You wouldn't be able to acquire a bug by squishing it and trying to acquire it's blood and guts, but as a mosquito you could 'acquire' flowing, fresh oxygen-rich blood and TA-DA!!!

But who knows 100%?  Nobody.  Interesting discussion, though.