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

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Gorilla are bipedal but use 4 as well. Bipedal just means primary mode not sole mode.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 7 points 4 months ago

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…

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

Those trunks look, uuh... conspicuously versatile.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I dig this, what's the source?

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

I found it on a raypunk group, but reverse image search suggests

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/69252/pg69252-images.html

[–] boo_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

OMG Lisp alien!

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