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Re: How do Animorphs Species Reproduce?
« Reply #15 on: September 11, 2011, 09:55:25 PM »
When is it mentioned that the Yeerks have 5 genders?  I don't recall any mention of that.

Excellent point there.  Truth be told, I was just about to come back with a counter-argument, and did a little research and found that there are 70 species right here on earth that reproduce asexually despite having sexually-reproducing ancestors.  So, yeah, it's entirely possible that the Leerans are asexual after all.

Still . . . without strong canon evidence, we shouldn't assume that that is the case.  70 species is far from being a majority among vertebrate life.

same book its mentioned that it takes a merging of 3 (19 i think).
like i said, every scifi cannon has a species that reproduces asexualy, it was either leerans or taxxons for this, leerans seemed like a better bet.

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Re: How do Animorphs Species Reproduce?
« Reply #16 on: September 11, 2011, 11:27:50 PM »
There is no mention of any genders, 3 or 5, in 19.
Personally don't remember any mention of Yeerk genders in any books

I've never thought of any of them being asexual. But to be fair, I don't often thing about any of them having sex.
If they were, I'd like to see it shuffle. Mix sexual and asexual. Like aphids.


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Re: How do Animorphs Species Reproduce?
« Reply #17 on: September 12, 2011, 01:59:40 AM »
There is no mention of any genders, 3 or 5, in 19.
Personally don't remember any mention of Yeerk genders in any books


hmmm coulda sworn... must have been a fanfic.

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Re: How do Animorphs Species Reproduce?
« Reply #18 on: September 12, 2011, 02:18:35 AM »
like i said, every scifi cannon has a species that reproduces asexualy, it was either leerans or taxxons for this, leerans seemed like a better bet.

Yes, well, every sci-fi is supposed to include at least one Rubber Forehead race, too.  :P

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Re: How do Animorphs Species Reproduce?
« Reply #19 on: September 12, 2011, 09:31:49 AM »
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Re: How do Animorphs Species Reproduce?
« Reply #20 on: September 12, 2011, 12:15:26 PM »
like i said, every scifi cannon has a species that reproduces asexualy, it was either leerans or taxxons for this, leerans seemed like a better bet.

Yes, well, every sci-fi is supposed to include at least one Rubber Forehead race, too.  :P

gedds would probably qualify, they are described as monkeylike aside from the shorter leg.

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Re: How do Animorphs Species Reproduce?
« Reply #21 on: September 12, 2011, 03:12:00 PM »
My point was that not every sci-fi series is obligated to include every sci-fi trope ever invented.  ::)

BTW, I wasn't making fun of Star Trek, I love Star Trek!  I was only pointing out that aliens that appear mostly human are found everywhere in sci-fi.

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Re: How do Animorphs Species Reproduce?
« Reply #22 on: September 12, 2011, 09:26:10 PM »
I remember in The Earth Diary of Toby Hamee (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5893377/1/The_Earth_Diary_of_Toby_Hamee) that mating and live-birth for Hork-Bajir is described. Toby and Telf Getrin have a kid named Dude.

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Re: How do Animorphs Species Reproduce?
« Reply #23 on: September 16, 2011, 05:22:22 AM »

Wow, look at all these wonderful replies. I tend to think the Living Hive is a bunch of Taxxons merged together to form it, but I could be wrong. And not ALL aliens in Star Trek are humanoid, just the so-called "elite" ones who form a special class. We've seen other aliens without rubber foreheads like the Sheliak, the Tholians, the Gorn, and Species 8472. :D

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Re: How do Animorphs Species Reproduce?
« Reply #24 on: October 06, 2011, 02:10:04 PM »
My point was that not every sci-fi series is obligated to include every sci-fi trope ever invented.  ::)

BTW, I wasn't making fun of Star Trek, I love Star Trek!  I was only pointing out that aliens that appear mostly human are found everywhere in sci-fi.

well it doesnt have to have EVERY trope, but when you are looking at a fairly large number of species and trying to come up with an explanation for for each of their reproductions, and dont want to repeat, then you are bound to use asexual (as well as 3 gender)

been thinking more about the andalite one now, due to ax not understanding why humans cover up, it would seem that whatever sex organs andalites have, they are internal and non fetishized.
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Re: How do Animorphs Species Reproduce?
« Reply #25 on: October 07, 2011, 11:48:38 PM »
It's the Andalites I often ponder over...what area of the torso the young would be carried in if they had live young, although we can't be certain of that,and how the baby would fold up to fit. The tail blade would have to be soft at first, that's for sure.

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Re: How do Animorphs Species Reproduce?
« Reply #26 on: October 08, 2011, 02:43:52 PM »
well it doesnt have to have EVERY trope, but when you are looking at a fairly large number of species and trying to come up with an explanation for for each of their reproductions, and dont want to repeat, then you are bound to use asexual (as well as 3 gender)

Why not repeat?  Evolution tends to figure out what works and runs with it.  And what works for one sentient animal-like life-form is probably at least going to be close to what works for another.  Fur obviously evolved at least twice in the Animorphs universe, as did scales and feathers and lungs and hearts and stomachs and internal skeletons and eyes and ears and hands.  Heck, every single Animorphs species uses aerobic respiration!*  Why is it any harder to believe that a two-gendered mode of reproduction is just as adaptive?

Given that asexual reproduction exists on earth, yet has never taken hold with any of earth's most dominant species, it's quite plausible to assume that it would be equally rare among extraterrestrial life-forms, as well, especially advanced ones.  Granted, it's probably not completely unheard-of in the entire universe.  But it also would not be nearly common enough that we could simply assume that, out of any random collection of species, one or more must reproduce asexually.

*Yes, including Yeerks.  According to HBC hey start to suffocate when buried in mud, and according to Cassie in #29 they breathe through their skin.

been thinking more about the andalite one now, due to ax not understanding why humans cover up, it would seem that whatever sex organs andalites have, they are internal and non fetishized.

I'd agree with that.  Especially given the fact that none of the human Animorphs have never pointed and laughed at Ax running around naked all the time.

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Re: How do Animorphs Species Reproduce?
« Reply #27 on: October 08, 2011, 04:29:37 PM »
When is it mentioned that the Yeerks have 5 genders?  I don't recall any mention of that.

Yeah... I don't recall 5 genders. That doesn't mean it's not true, but if it's true I'd like to read it.
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