Rax in A Circus Of Hells in the Technic History.
The Baburites in "Esau" and Mirkheim in the Technic History.
The Dreamer in "Flight to Forever."
The Sigman in The Byworlder.
Baburites and Sigmans chew food with their claws. Baburites dissolve it in a pouch and suck it through a snout whereas Sigmans ingest it up an arm. Sigmans face both ways and have no front or back. Poul Anderson designed them to be physically disgusting to human beings. Read his description and see what I mean.
Communication with the Sigman failed for three years but then Yvonne made a breakthrough because she realized that human scientists had been synthesizing sounds that were unpleasant or even painful for the Sigman.
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Kaor, Paul!
And I recall how a Merseian thought humans looked like dirty caricatures of Merseians in "Day of Burning." He preferred the honestly weird looking Adzel!
Ad astra! Sean
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