← Back to letters29/04/18 Your interest in our civilization of UMMO honors us, and it is with pleasure that I will answer your questions regarding the animal species IEGOOSSAA. These cave-dwelling animals are omnivorous anthropoids, primarily fond of fruits, insects, and fish, which you can compare to large chimpanzees with thick white or slightly golden fur. However, unlike these terrestrial primates, the IEGOOSSAA are completely bipedal and show a strong differentiation in the conformation between hands and feet. The latter have no prehensile function, although the toes are more developed than the vestigial ones of the OEMMII. The IEGOOSSAA differ from other anthropoid species of UMMO by their larger size and sharper intelligence. They have a complex communication language combining body or facial expressions and modulated cries. They are organized into strongly hierarchical groups from which they only separate during reproduction periods. After mating, all return to the original cell within which the females will give birth to their newborns, who will enlarge the group. Territorial fights are frequent between different groups and invariably degenerate into deadly battles in which only the large adult males participate, strongly encouraged by the cries and agitation of the females and young. The death of one of the dominant males invariably marks the outcome of the fight, and the defeated group is savagely chased away. The individuals who died during the fight are taken care of by the females of the victorious group and subjected to a ritual funeral ceremony during which they are covered with leaves and branches, without distinction of the original clan. The IEGOOSSAA live in the upper part of our WOAROO colony, which is constituted as a nature reserve. We only maintain relations with the border groups. We voluntarily exchange edible goods with them for small polished pebbles of various colors, which are mainly used in our landscape art. We use them, for example, to compose frescoes, draw paths, or decorate the beds of water features and streams that we create to embellish our family gardens and collective parks. This barter prevents territorial expansion desires of the border families towards the areas allocated to the OEMMII and allows maintaining a peaceful relationship between our two peoples. Among the IEGOOSSAA, we distinguish the AAGA IEGOOSSAA, who are from a group selected at the beginning of our third age and with whom we try to induce a directed evolution by pairing individuals who seem the most promising to us, hoping one day to activate in them the OEMBOUAW function - connection to the soul that we have already defined in our letters in the past - and thus make them reach the stage of conscious OEMMII. The term AAGA generally means a restriction of freedom of movement by constant control. We could translate it as: under constant vigilance. In the case of the AAGA IEGOOSSAA, the closest acceptance of the term AAGA in your language would be: domesticated. The IEGOOSSAA and the OEMMII of UMMO originate from the same phylum, and we naturally share far more common genes with them than there can be between you and us. All experiments once attempted in the laboratory to obtain a cross between AAGA IEGOOSSAA and OEMII only resulted in creating monstrous, brainless, or non-viable hybrids. Strong differences in the composition of cellular chromatin make crossbreeding of animal or plant species between OYAOUMMO and OYAGAA absolutely unthinkable without the use of advanced biotechnological means. The AAGA IEGOOSSAA are now fully domesticated. They live peacefully in families in IGOYAABII (caves or caverns) specially arranged for them within the wooded enclosure of university centers where their behavior is studied. They enjoy relative freedom and are sometimes employed in social tasks for which they are better suited than the OEMII, such as fruit harvesting or transporting heavy loads on difficult-to-access terrain. They are, in reality, fully integrated into our social network, and a strong feeling of mutual affection binds us to them. They understand the main words of our oral language and express themselves graphically among themselves and with the OEMMII by pointing to an ordered sequence of symbols arranged in a set of 38 basic colored ideograms inscribed on a ventral apron, which constitutes a sort of clothing keyboard. 1217 / 1373
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