Those are throat sacs, quite hollow (empty? would you call an empty balloon hollow?). And they attract females via the sound produced by inflating and deflating said sacs.
They’re vestigial. Yinglets used to only develop their shell tooth after their mothers nursed them for a few months. But they bread the late shell tooth development and need for nursing out of the species so the mothers could have more kids per year.
I just realized (2nd time reading) Galen, as in the Greek physician who tried to learn about the human body by studying dogs, chimps, and other animals, and who taught that bloodletting (as well as other old “treatments”) was good and what you should do. If he were alive today, the real Galen would be as disrespected as Kass disrespects him in the story. Well played Valsalia, well played.
OOPs now has a Russian translation which updates shortly after the English pages are posted!
Older RU pages: https://acomics.ru/~OutOfPlacers
Now also in French:
And Ukranian:
OH MY GOD HE’S A FEMALE XD
He needs to get abreast of the situation.
Knew it as soon as I saw the tail tuft.
Kass.exe has stopped working.
Please remove any recently installed (or replace any recently removed) organs and reboot.
That audible snap was his brain.
There just aren’t enough combined gender AND species bending stories out there. As I kinda thrive on both, this is totally awesome.
Yinglets have breasts? That’s kind of absurd.
Gotta store the fat somewhere! Like a camel. Or, maybe…
I’m reminded of the Greater Sage-Grouse, the males smack them together to attract mates.
Those are throat sacs, quite hollow (empty? would you call an empty balloon hollow?). And they attract females via the sound produced by inflating and deflating said sacs.
They’re kind of an absurd species.
They’re vestigial. Yinglets used to only develop their shell tooth after their mothers nursed them for a few months. But they bread the late shell tooth development and need for nursing out of the species so the mothers could have more kids per year.
Double whammy on the cute!
The drugged guy is so high one of his former countrymen turned yinglet no longer fazes him
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Things just wend down the tubes sideways and right through the fan, but the look of shock is too funny to care
I just realized (2nd time reading) Galen, as in the Greek physician who tried to learn about the human body by studying dogs, chimps, and other animals, and who taught that bloodletting (as well as other old “treatments”) was good and what you should do. If he were alive today, the real Galen would be as disrespected as Kass disrespects him in the story. Well played Valsalia, well played.
Kassen, it would be better if you don’t look down, trust me on this. No, no don’t look dow–! Oops.