Post by LycanthroFee on Oct 28, 2016 15:15:18 GMT
copied from my tumblr with minor edits
s’ not a headcanon per se, it’s more me purposefully misinterpreting design choices and using it to build my own little fun essay where I exercise what I’ve spent the last year learning.
so basically I’m looking at sexual dimorphism (where two of the same species look incredibly difference due to their sex) and how Fee and Foo’s traits (physical and behavioural) match up with real wild animals in our world
As far as I’m concerned, Fee and Foo have the most unique sexual dimorphism in all the species, where most sexual dimorphism in littlebark grove is females having hair. but I’m looking at Fee and Foo being closer to wild animals (which I will go onto later)
It’s usually the male of the species which has more intricate colouration, or extravagant fur/feather/scales patterns. Looking at Fee and Foo, Fee is DEFINITELY the one who’s got more of a unique thing going on.
Fee has this thing going on where she’s got bare skin/lined with very thin fur (think Sphynx cat) and very big, thick hair. what she’s got going on is much more comparable to one of our favourite big cats with sexual dimorphism - Lions!
[sphynx] [lions]
Hell, Fee’s mop of hair even shares some similarities with the male lion’s mane - that being lion’s manes usually have two lightly coloured strips either side of their faces.
Fee is more of an extravagant colour than Foo most definitely, Foo is orange which is usually a colour reserved for the female of the species if they have different colouration due to sexual dimorphism - definitely looking at birds for this one. The female is brown/orange whilst the male is more extravagant shades, which pink would definitely come under! Here’s an example of a pair of male (left) and female (right) Mandarin ducks, with a type of colouration which is a common occurance in birds (also see: peacocks and peahens, pheasants, mallard ducks)
[mandarin ducks]
Now, behaviour wise, in the wild, looking at carnivorous pack animals, males are usually more aggressive and dominant whilst females are more nurturing. This is not the case in all animals of course, but it is how most animals have adapted so that the pack can be kept safe and that the offspring will have a healthy start which greatly increases the chance of survival. Looking at Fee and Foo, Fee is inherently more aggressive and dominant than Foo, and Foo is much more docile. If they were wild animals, Fee would be the one fighting to defend territory whilst Foo would be more suited for looking after young (hey, I didn’t say the female of the species is GOOD at looking after their young, they’re just better suited than the males …)
Now, I’d like to suggest that Fee and Foo are much closer genetically to the monsters of fogbark, which inherently makes them more wild than the citizens of littlebark grove. And the closer they are to being wild animals, the less likely it is that they, as a species, have been pushed into evolving into a form where the females of the species have long hair. We know not of how long littlebark grove has been here, but societies can forcibly evolve the species to have more of a uniform sexual dimorphism. I’m assuming here that fee and foo’s species have been in their own secluded off community for centuries where it hasn’t been pushed.
Upon entering a world where females have long hair and pink is a feminine colour, it’d only make sense for Fee to believe she’s a female and for Foo to believe he’s male.
To conclude: males have intense colourations, stranger fur patterns, occasionally more ‘hair’, they’re more dominant. Females are usually orange/brown and are more docile and sweet with less interesting patterns.
Do I think that in the canon of the show, Fee and Foo are transgender? No. Do I beleive a word of the rubbish I’ve spouted? Nope. I just wanted a chance to use my knowledge of sexual dimorphism on SOMETHING.
s’ not a headcanon per se, it’s more me purposefully misinterpreting design choices and using it to build my own little fun essay where I exercise what I’ve spent the last year learning.
so basically I’m looking at sexual dimorphism (where two of the same species look incredibly difference due to their sex) and how Fee and Foo’s traits (physical and behavioural) match up with real wild animals in our world
As far as I’m concerned, Fee and Foo have the most unique sexual dimorphism in all the species, where most sexual dimorphism in littlebark grove is females having hair. but I’m looking at Fee and Foo being closer to wild animals (which I will go onto later)
It’s usually the male of the species which has more intricate colouration, or extravagant fur/feather/scales patterns. Looking at Fee and Foo, Fee is DEFINITELY the one who’s got more of a unique thing going on.
Fee has this thing going on where she’s got bare skin/lined with very thin fur (think Sphynx cat) and very big, thick hair. what she’s got going on is much more comparable to one of our favourite big cats with sexual dimorphism - Lions!
[sphynx] [lions]
Hell, Fee’s mop of hair even shares some similarities with the male lion’s mane - that being lion’s manes usually have two lightly coloured strips either side of their faces.
Fee is more of an extravagant colour than Foo most definitely, Foo is orange which is usually a colour reserved for the female of the species if they have different colouration due to sexual dimorphism - definitely looking at birds for this one. The female is brown/orange whilst the male is more extravagant shades, which pink would definitely come under! Here’s an example of a pair of male (left) and female (right) Mandarin ducks, with a type of colouration which is a common occurance in birds (also see: peacocks and peahens, pheasants, mallard ducks)
[mandarin ducks]
Now, behaviour wise, in the wild, looking at carnivorous pack animals, males are usually more aggressive and dominant whilst females are more nurturing. This is not the case in all animals of course, but it is how most animals have adapted so that the pack can be kept safe and that the offspring will have a healthy start which greatly increases the chance of survival. Looking at Fee and Foo, Fee is inherently more aggressive and dominant than Foo, and Foo is much more docile. If they were wild animals, Fee would be the one fighting to defend territory whilst Foo would be more suited for looking after young (hey, I didn’t say the female of the species is GOOD at looking after their young, they’re just better suited than the males …)
Now, I’d like to suggest that Fee and Foo are much closer genetically to the monsters of fogbark, which inherently makes them more wild than the citizens of littlebark grove. And the closer they are to being wild animals, the less likely it is that they, as a species, have been pushed into evolving into a form where the females of the species have long hair. We know not of how long littlebark grove has been here, but societies can forcibly evolve the species to have more of a uniform sexual dimorphism. I’m assuming here that fee and foo’s species have been in their own secluded off community for centuries where it hasn’t been pushed.
Upon entering a world where females have long hair and pink is a feminine colour, it’d only make sense for Fee to believe she’s a female and for Foo to believe he’s male.
To conclude: males have intense colourations, stranger fur patterns, occasionally more ‘hair’, they’re more dominant. Females are usually orange/brown and are more docile and sweet with less interesting patterns.
Do I think that in the canon of the show, Fee and Foo are transgender? No. Do I beleive a word of the rubbish I’ve spouted? Nope. I just wanted a chance to use my knowledge of sexual dimorphism on SOMETHING.