Urm

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1. Narrator: “Way back in time there were troglodytes; women and men living in caves. Cavemen.”
2. Narrator: "This cave in Transslovenia got shut off from the outside over 20,000 years ago. It was recently opened.”
Urm: "By Urm" "Caveman" "Your typical exclusively cave-dwelling chordate species, until 3 months ago"
3. Urm: "And like other cave-dwellers I have no pigment and hair. And tiny eyes, so I need some thick prescription sunglasses to see outside"
4. Narrator: "Unlike the stereotypes, they are a highly intelligent species."
Urm: "I might have tiny external gills, but the aquatic ape hypothesis of human evolution has been dismissed by the scholarly community"
Narrator: "Nonetheless, they can be quite pedantic."
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Urm

The new character of Urm was inspired by my visit to the Postojna caves in Slovenia in the Summer of 2022. In those caves the OlmLink to an external page in a new window lives, also known als proteus or human fish. The olm, phonetically similar to Urm, is a species of exclusively cave-dwelling salamander. Pale, no skin pigment, tiny eyes and external gills…