What type of animal are Fraggles really?

[Redsonga]

Besides just being Fraggles and muppets what type of real animal do you see Fraggles as being most like?
I'm heard moles (from the fraggle rock extras) and then monkeys (from different places) but I've also heard in the show that fraggles hatch from eggs (from the storyteller). So I don't know really what to think anymore...
The only thing that I can think of is maybe a long lost type of Platypus- since they love swimming, are furry, hatch from eggs and are mammals as far as I can tell. Plus, you can almost see where their muzzles use to be bird like

 

[Gold Demona]

I highly doubt the fraggles come from eggs, and here's why: the episode "Wembley's Egg".
When Junior knocked the bird's egg out of itsnest and into the fraggle pond, the fraggles couldn't figure out what it was, except Wembley, who only kinda knew what it was.
He knew it belonged to the "tree creatures" and that it was for them to sit on, and that later a baby comes out of it.
And when he said such, everyone else laughed at him.
He even described it as a "house for babies", to which they all laughed even harder.
If fraggles do come from eggs, as is so suggested, why were they all so clueless as to what an egg was?


They don't seem like egg-laying animals anyway. They seem more like mammals to me. As to what specific kind of mammals I have no clue.

 

[Pork]

Yeah, I agree. The conversation about if Fraggles came from eggs has been discussed before and I don't think that the "egg theory" is very possible.

 

[Redsonga]

I always thought that it was because they were too young to know were babies came from yet . (since fraggles age slower about that sort of thing IMHO but can live on their own far sooner). Remember how everyone who did'nt know where babies came from in grade school reacted to the idea of a baby growing in the mamas belly? Sort of like that
Besides that I think that most fraggles mostly block out the memory of the actual laying because it is painful and don't tell the little ones about it.
I always thought they were laughing (the older fraggles) because maybe it was far too big to be an egg to them (since their eggs are only fraggle size) and they thought he was trying to hatch a rock *lol*

 

[Gold Demona]

I always thought that it was because they were too young to know were babies came from yet . (since fraggles age slower about that sort of thing IMHO but can live on their own far sooner). Remember how everyone who did'nt know where babies came from in grade school reacted to the idea of a baby growing in the mamas belly? Sort of like that
Besides that I think that most fraggles mostly block out the memory of the actual laying because it is painful and don't tell the little ones about it.
I always thought they were laughing (the older fraggles) because maybe it was far too big to be an egg to them (since their eggs are only fraggle size) and they thought he was trying to hatch a rock *lol*

I still don't buy it.
If that was the case, then SOMEBODY would've corrected Wembley when he called it a "house for babies", and said something like "You mean an egg? Don't be ridiculous! Eggs aren't that big!"
And they would've answered all the questions the fraggle five were asking about it.
"How does it eat?" "How does it breath?" "How'd it get in there?" etc.

 

[Redsonga]

I think fraggles are the type not to pop another younger fraggles bubble . Aka, 'aw are'nt they cute?'.
Plus, I actually think fraggles don't really know (at least the fraggles in that part of the rock, others might be more logical) all the answers to those questions in the first place, they might still see the wonder of birth as a magic thing (Basicly, I see them as being only at the level of know how that the only way they could find out things like that would be to cut open an egg, and I do not think they would have the heart for that, even on a bad egg..)...
Anyway, it's all good I think, we all write our own ideas . I'm just glad to be able to have my own vision of the fraggle culture

 

[Drtooth]

Fraggles are a race and species all their own, to me. Like Gonzo's whatever or Scooters sort of a human, but not quite. I tend to gather they're Mammals, since they are fur bearing (or at least have hair).

I know Poison Cackillers lay eggs... that's all I got.

 

[CensoredAlso]

They could be mammals who somehow lay eggs, the Storyteller did mention a Fraggle being hatched. And it could be that the Fraggles just didn't know where babies came from in the "Wembley's Egg" episode.

Of course, the Storyteller's use of the word "hatched" could mean something entirely different to the Fraggles.

 

[Gold Demona]

And this is assuming that every single thing the Storyteller says is true. =P

 

[Redsonga]

And this is assuming that every single thing the Storyteller says is true. =P

I like to think it is .
But a lot of things could be true in the fraggle world, since they have this little thing called magic...I mean the Trash Heap is alive for goodness sakes ! Eggs are'nt that out of the question if your trash can become a living thing thanks to two talking rat like thingies *lol*