It's possible that they cannot eat their prey, because their biology might be incompatible with terrestrial animals. They don't seem intelligent enough to kill for sadism, rather it seems that they just instinctively lash out at anything that creates noise. Perhaps most frustratingly, the creatures do not kill for food: the Abbotts' whiteboard includes the prominent note, "Why don't they eat their prey?", and they are never seen eating any of the corpses they leave behind. Besides, invariably when one was killed, another came running to the location of its death.
Just how intelligent they are is unclear, as they mostly seem driven by pure instinct, though the Abbotts' whiteboard speculates that they are capable of hunting in packs. If the high-pitched noises got louder, they could get to the point where they temporarily collapsed from the pain.Īs confirmed by Krasinski, the aliens are not sapient, but vicious animals.
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Their extremely sensitive hearing can be turned into a weakness, as Regan discovered that their ears are so delicate that high-frequency sound waves (generated from a hearing aid) will make them uncontrollably squeal in pain and spasm, accidentally opening up the armor plates on their ears and exposing the vulnerable skin underneath. The delicate ears underneath the armor are vulnerable to conventional weapons, explaining why they only briefly lift their plates if they feel they are safe and tracking an enemy or prey. The entire head is actually composed of multiple sections of armor plates that can be held open if they want to listen more closely for prey - unfolding like a hellish cabbage. With no apparent nose, it is unclear if they possess a sense of smell, or if this is perhaps achieved through sense organs in the mouth. Their head features a large jaw filled with sharp teeth and no eyes. Due to their claws and great strength, they are very adept at climbing on walls. Their body posture vaguely resembles a cross between a gorilla and a flightless bat: all four of their limbs are digitigrade, walking on their knuckles, with arms drastically larger than their legs - resulting in them usually running on all four limbs but capable of rearing up to attack or jump large distances. The creatures are slightly taller than a human, with overall proportions that are lithe and lean.
Due to the tradeoffs of these features, however, they are completely blind - and their dense armor and musculature is so heavy that they cannot swim in water. Their armor is so tough it can resist all conventional human weaponry, from small arms to missiles. This pushed their evolution to develop features such as relying on echolocation instead of sight, possessing impenetrably hard armor, and greater strength in Earth's gravity.
According to John Krasinski, the director of the movies, the creatures originated on a lightless planet in a faraway galaxy, a hell world with much harsher conditions and higher gravity than Earth.
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