Talk:Beasts/@comment-37871102-20190104075457

Do the mermaids speak or understand English? All we hear out of the mermaids is a screaming noise, and I think it unlikely but possible that they are able to understand English.

Certainly, it appears that they are intelligent, since they are able to use and presumably create spears. Do they have a language of their own?

Is it the case that the crab riders are the male counterparts to the mermaids? If they are of the same species, then why do they have legs instead of a tail? Presumably in such a sexually dimorphic species, they would have completely different roles. Would it be a matriarchal or a patriarchal society?

Crab riders are clearly intelligent, in order to be able to domesticate and ride the crabs, whereas the crabs themselves are probably unintelligent. The Kraken seems to be intelligent: It is able to identify a cannon and a human by touch alone, and is able to aim the cannon at the human. It has most likely had a lot of experience wrecking ships, which is how it knows what a cannon feels like.