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<div><i>At Sun Jul 12 12:53:33 PDT 2020 </i><b>De'vID</b> <a href="mailto:tlhingan-hol%40lists.kli.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BtlhIngan%20Hol%5D%20Hippos%20and%20rhinos&In-Reply-To=%3CCA%2B7zAmPPw1rSNvQ%2BoM32BaOfL4hxzJpvkHBbrCQ6Ra2LrkW%2BFA%40mail.gmail.com%3E" title="[tlhIngan Hol] Hippos and rhinos">(de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com) </a>wrote:</div>
<pre>>Considering that we're talking about the vocabulary of an alien planet and
>empire, it's already weird that there are analogues to so many Terran
>animals. (However, I suppose the fact that the Klingon Homeworld was also
>seeded by the ancient humanoids, according to the TNG episode "The Chase",
>means that this may not be a coincidence at all.)</pre>
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<div>I just assume it's convergent evolution. Like the way we have both anteaters and aardvarks on Earth, or wolves and thylacines.</div>
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<div>If there were a Kronos animal equivalent to an aardvark or anteater, Okrand might name it so that it would be alphabetically at the beginning of the alphabet (bab) or at the beginning of the pIqaD in Klingon alphabetical order (if that's ever revealed).</div>
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