Hmm. I’ll have to throw that to the kid..she lurks here.
Seems plausible.
My lunatic fringe screams chimera.
Animals don’t have souls. They see in black and white. Everyday life for them is kill or be killed. That’s the way God made them.
A chimera is basically two fertilized eggs that fused together before mitosis started. Some of a chimera’s cells have the DNA of one of the eggs, the other cells have the DNA of the other egg.