theory of evolution

[Kaziarl]

Horta would presumably have some way of seeing, as the one we saw had learned to read and write in English!

Through spocks mind meld. Beyond that, the horta would know what the letters "look" like, and have enough control of its acid excretions to write it.

 

[Myasishchev]

The mother Horta, born around 44773 BC, was the last of the Horta species of Janus VI until stardate 3196 in 2267. Every 50,000 years every Horta dies except for one, who watches the eggs until they begin to hatch.

Thats what it says on MA. It doesn't really go into detail, but I could have sworn they mentioned they were androgynous... wow, i spelled that right on the first try... amazing...

Anyway, I could also be completely wrong about that. The only other sources of information are non-canon, which do make a distinction between male and female.

I always presumed that was any individual Horta colony. I figured there might be thousands or hundreds of thousands of such colonies on the planet as a whole.

I'm sorry, I don't want to hijack your thread with a Horta tangent.