Queen Lucy

elisabethdeep-blog:

derinthescarletpescatarian:

Humans are like “let me hold the thing. Let me pick it up. It’s cute and I want to hold it, I want to wrap my weird elongated front feet around it, I want to encircle it with my freakishly long, oddly flexible front toes. I HAVE to hold things I HAVE to or I’ll die.”

I know normal people can just pass their bill over and around an object and know most things worth knowing about it, but humans don’t have electroreceptors At All. They only have mechanoreceptors. Which are most concentrated in the aforementioned ‘hands’… and in their mouths.

They do also have eyes, and their vision is actually pretty acute. But their optic and mechanic sensory inputs aren’t integrated together like electro-mechanic sense is. So they have these two fairly sophisticated sensory complexes that Barely talk to each other.

No wonder they try to bring the two inputs together in their environment then; picking things up and turning them around allows them to apply both their mechanical and optical senses to the object. They’re just trying to make up for a deficiency of neural organisation.

And like. I mentioned the other concentration of mechanoreceptors is in their mouth… So just be glad they mostly grow out of constantly wrapping their viscera-looking tongue around everything.

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