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A Thoth from Stanley G. Weinbaum’s A Martian Odyssey and Valley of Dreams (1934). They're plant/animal hybrids that build the complicated waterworks of the canal system. A Thoth named Tweel is one of the main characters of the two stories.

“The Martian wasn’t a bird, really. It wasn’t even bird-like, except just at first glance. It had a beak all right, and a few feathery appendages, but the beak wasn’t really a beak. It was somewhat flexible; I could see the tip bend slowly from side to side; it was almost like a cross between a beak and a trunk. It had four-toed feet, and four fingered things—hands, you’d have to call them, and a little roundish body, and a long neck ending in a tiny head—and that beak. It stood an inch or so taller than I”

“eighteen-inch beak”

“stretched a bony claw at me”

“Just as we sighted Xanthus, or the cliffs that bounded it, one of those nasty sand clouds blew along, not as bad as the one we had here, but mean to travel against. I pulled the transparent flap of my thermo-skin bag across my face and managed pretty well, and I noticed that Tweel used some feathery appendages growing like a mustache at the base of his beak to cover his nostrils, and some similar fuzz to shield his eyes.”

“Tweel’s feathery appendages were more orange hued”

“‘Why? Because, my dear biologist, that’s where his brains are! Not in his tiny head—in his middle!’”

Description
A Thoth from Stanley G. Weinbaum’s A Martian Odyssey and Valley of Dreams (1934). They're plant/animal hybrids that build the complicated waterworks of the canal system. A Thoth named Tweel is one of the main characters of the two stories.

“The Martian wasn’t a bird, really. It wasn’t even bird-like, except just at first glance. It had a beak all right, and a few feathery appendages, but the beak wasn’t really a beak. It was somewhat flexible; I could see the tip bend slowly from side to side; it was almost like a cross between a beak and a trunk. It had four-toed feet, and four fingered things—hands, you’d have to call them, and a little roundish body, and a long neck ending in a tiny head—and that beak. It stood an inch or so taller than I”

“eighteen-inch beak”

“stretched a bony claw at me”

“Just as we sighted Xanthus, or the cliffs that bounded it, one of those nasty sand clouds blew along, not as bad as the one we had here, but mean to travel against. I pulled the transparent flap of my thermo-skin bag across my face and managed pretty well, and I noticed that Tweel used some feathery appendages growing like a mustache at the base of his beak to cover his nostrils, and some similar fuzz to shield his eyes.”

“Tweel’s feathery appendages were more orange hued”

“‘Why? Because, my dear biologist, that’s where his brains are! Not in his tiny head—in his middle!’”