they arent mammels though, they dont have nipples.
they don’t get born at all, they get delivered by stork exclusively on blue moons. they’re probably magical creatures more akin to fairies than anything else. we don’t even know for a fact that they can die of old age.
besides, the presence of Smurfette falls entirely outside of their biology since she was created from blue clay by Gargamel, so including her in any argument is faulty to begin with.
Honestly the biggest disappointment I had researching ABC was that medieval authors did not, in fact, see the creatures they were describing and were trying their best to describe them with their limited knowledge while going “what the fuck… what the fuck…”
Instead all those creatures you know came about from transcription and translation errors from copying Greco-Roman sources (who themselves got them from travelers’ tales from Persia and India - rhino -> unicorn, tiger -> manticore, python -> dragon, and so on).
So unicorns are real
behold… a unicorn
I always thought animals in medieval manuscripts looked like the result of having to draw say. A Tree Kangaroo, but your only source for what it looked like was your friend who heard it from a fellow who knows a man who swears he saw one once, whilst very drunk and lost, and I am SO PLEASED to find out this is, in fact, the case.
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