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Ah yes, bipeds, a species named after its well known tendency to walk on four limbs
Oh huh. Until I read this comment I assumed it was written from the perspective of the weird alien things, and “bipeds” referred to the humans…
Gorilla are bipedal but use 4 as well. Bipedal just means primary mode not sole mode.
To be fair the one that was spotted when they got their name was standing on two legs at the time and the scientist couldn’t be bothered to keep watching
OMG Lisp alien!
Those trunks look, uuh… conspicuously versatile.
I dig this, what’s the source?
I found it on a raypunk group, but reverse image search suggests
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/69252/pg69252-images.html