#i love yugioh species deep dives now
My written analysis on kuriboh we will be ignoring my first sketch in this post
In the og design he’s standing on his hind legs but the look of his hands look like they are for digging and climbing he has dense fur and smaller eyes with a large pupil this implies that this little man might live underground in a tunnel system a lovely little wild animal be kind and respectful or he will bite
But in the anime they fucking domesticated him his eyes are larger with a smaller pupil and his poor diggers are fatty with no muscle his fur is also a lot thinner this means over the years people selectively bred them into surface animals and to be kept as a cute pet the poor thing probably can’t even stand on his own anymore stuck with kuribohs second fail-safe method of travel floating
Kuribohs floating is a defensive behavior to keep babies safe from tunneling bugs and parasites and later when digging if the kuriboh accidentally dug into an empty pocket they could float to safety BUT THEY ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO FLOAT ALL TIME it’s bad for their bones and muscles this forced behavior and inbreeding has completely overridden with osteoporosis and hypotonia
Please stop the inbreeding and mistreatment of kuribohs and help support the conservation of wild kuribohs
@bowl-of-chaos fantastic question the answer is that sangans are in the family to kuribohs but different species, like hares to rabbits. The sangans are carnivores that live above ground . Sangans have longer limbs, sharper talons, finer hair and a third eye while sangans were discovered after kuribohs there is evidence that sangans have been around for longer sangans also unlike kuribohs sangans can not float willingly sangans will only float after falling.
