It seemed that, after contact with a few human generations, sand hogs would begin to understand human speech. The irony was that after coming to understand their riders fully, the beasts often ended up abandoning them and heading off into the wilderness.

Neal Asher
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Sand hogs is a fictional alien species created by Isaac Asimov in his Foundation series. In the novel, Asimov describes sand hogs as creatures who “lived in great herds, like cattle on the plains” and “were intelligent enough to be able to speak.” The book describes the sand hogs’ ability to understand human speech after they have come into contact with humans. Sand hogs are basically cattle-like beasts, so the story presented here is that, eventually, after being around humans for several generations, sand hogs would learn how to communicate with humans. This would obviously be quite problematic for colonizing humans because the sand hog would desert the colony.

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