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[Excella Gionne]

Not harvesting the Yahg would be a colossal mistake.

 

That's pretty much like leaving Krogan 2.0 at the brink of spaceflight with the full 50.000 years of development to go for.

 

...I have just explained the refuse ending, I think

I think Yahgs are more dangerous than krogans in brute strength and sheer size...

[Farangbaa]

An extra large Krogan that learns like a Salarian, dangerous??

 

Nah

[SporkFu]

But shep killed one in a fist fight. I know Liara helped but still... 

[Excella Gionne]

An extra large Krogan that learns like a Salarian, dangerous??

 

Nah

Well, it's impossible to fool a yahg, because of how their eyes work. They can read body language. 

[Kel Riever]

It's implied several times that the Reapers go ahead and destroy species that are 'close' to the cusp of developing spaceflight and artificial intelligence - this includes a species of birds that were in their bronze age that got wiped out. Presumably, if that species was anything like humans, they were only a few thousand years off from spaceflight and AI, close enough to go ahead and take them out.

 

Whereas the last time the Reapers came and saw humanity, they would have seen a very primitive group of hunter-gatherers that had no civilization beyond basic stone tools (sharpened rocks essentially) and no agriculture.

 

The Yahg are supposedly passed up because even though they are on the cusp of space flight, they haven't developed the ability to get through relays.  But there could also be an unfulfilled plot device that the previous Shadow Broker did make a deal with the Reapers as well (Liara's theory).  I don't think that either the bird like race, or the Yahg's plot really got much more thought put into it by the time ME3 rolled around.  And they were (and should have been) low on the priority list.  With the way things are going these days, I wouldn't have high expectations about either the Raloi or the Yahg getting any brilliant development either.

 

Edit for Yahg already being brought up.  Anyway....whatever, logic in the MEU?  lolz

[Kabooooom]

To all the people saying Turians don't look like birds: that's been a running joke in Mass Effect since like ME1. Even Grunt, during the Citadel party, mutters "they don't look like birds...they look like cats!"

It's also worth noting that just because they are referred to as "avian" does not mean that they are "anatomically and physiologically identical to earth bird species". It just means they are "avian-like" from a human perspective, attempting to describe an alien species in familiar terms. Maybe their bones are partially hollow. Maybe they have a unidirectional air flow system in their lungs and the absence of a diaphragm. Maybe they have a brain structure analogous to the optic tectum of earth birds and used for the same purpose. But they don't have wings (not even apparent evidence that they ever HAD them to begin with), nor feathers, and their armored skin is only roughly analogous to scales. They are more similar to a heavily anthropomorphized theropod in appearance than a bird, and even that isn't really descriptive.

Similarly, the Salarians are "amhibious" but are clearly not homologous to earth amphibians except in the rudimentary sense that both are amphibious. They're just words that humans use to describe alien-ness.

I also doubt that an animal that could fly could even evolve on Palaven to begin with, given the conditions that they listed. If they could, they'd probably be extremely small animals. It is roughly similar to Earth in all ways, with the exception of the massively increased exposure to radiation. Thus, almost all animals on Palaven apparently have the thick, armored plates on their skin that we see with the Turians. Undoubtedly this would add some weight, possibly offsetting any benefit that decreased body size and mass would have on lift capability. But that's a side point, just something I always found interesting from a biology standpoint. Point is - just because something is described as "avian" does not mean they have to resemble birds to the point that it is easily recognizable.

[Jukaga]

Well, it's impossible to fool a yahg, because of how their eyes work. They can read body language. 

Body language is cultural, not biological. Without intimate knowledge of that culture, how would they accomplish this? Where is that factoid stated anyways?

[Excella Gionne]

Body language is cultural, not biological. Without intimate knowledge of that culture, how would they accomplish this? Where is that factoid stated anyways?

Read it from the Codex and also their biology on the wiki. They have four pairs of eyes on both sides of their faces equaling up to 8 eyes total. These eyes are used to predict movements and track their prey. Their eyes are very keen sensitive to light and movement which makes them almost impossible to lie to regardless of the species.

[Jukaga]

Read it from the Codex and also their biology on the wiki. They have four pairs of eyes on both sides of their faces equaling up to 8 eyes total. These eyes are used to predict movements and track their prey. Their eyes are very keen sensitive to light and movement which makes them almost impossible to lie to regardless of the species.

I'll take your word for it, but will have to call BS on that ability. A shrug of the shoulders could mean a million things to a million different humanoid species.