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	<ref name="HandofOdd">Alf (1 March 2001). [http://oddworld.com/firsttenyears/alf/ow_dearalf06.shtml Dear Alf 06], q. 16. Alf’s Rehab & Tea. Oddworld Official Site Page.</ref>		<ref name="HandofOdd">Alf (1 March 2001). [http://oddworld.com/firsttenyears/alf/ow_dearalf06.shtml Dear Alf 06], q. 16. Alf’s Rehab & Tea. Oddworld Official Site Page.</ref>
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'''Meeches''' are an extinct species of pack hunter<ref name="Packs"/> endemic to Mudos. Mentioned only in passing at the start of ''[[Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee]]''<ref name="ThisisRF"/> and in fan relations material, it was intended for them to been seen later in the ''[[Oddworld Quintology]]''.<ref name="Lorne"/>

== Population ==
The environmental conditions required by Meeches were much more fragile than those of most creatures; subsequently, Meeches were endemic to the immediate area around where RuptureFarms 1029 was built<ref name="Habitat"/>—thought to be open fields and plains, possibly savannah<ref name="Fields"/><ref name="OWFitat"/>—where they hunted Elums in huge packs.<ref name="Lorne"/> Their confined distribution ensured that the habitat loss and hunting of Meeches lead to their rapid decline in their population numbers and inevitable extinction.<ref name="Habitat"/>

It was once rumoured that a population of Meeches was discovered atop a plateau, but the [[Glukkons]] immediately relocated them to one of their hunting preserves.<ref name="Plateau"/> Alf’s friend Buddy lost huge amounts of weight on the '''South Meech Diet''', but offered no proof that it was truly Meech he was eating.<ref name="MeechDiet"/> Alf has repeatedly tried to suggest that there may still be free Meeches.<ref name="Plateau"/><ref name="alf6"/><ref name="alf19"/>

== Physiology ==
Not much has ever been seen of Meeches, and their appearance detailed here has been deduced from one colourless concept sketch by Steven Olds and descriptions by [[Lorne Lanning]] and fan liaison Matt Lee. Meeches were brown,<ref name="Colours"/> and stood about 3·5–4 feet (1–1·2 m) tall<ref name="Packs"/> on two three-toed legs.<ref name="Sketch"/> Red stripes<ref name="Colours"/> ran across their armour-plated back, which had large spikes running down their spine.<ref name="Sketch"/> Their mouth was [[Scrabs|Scrab]]-like,<ref name="Sketch"/> but they had four jaws.<ref name="Lorne"/> Their foreclaws (two per hand) were tiny and attached to their body by no visible arm.<ref name="Sketch"/>

== In other societies ==
=== In industrial society ===
Meech meat is eaten by consumers.<ref name="ThisisRF"/> Because Meeches could only be found in the area in which RuptureFarms was built, there was never a very big population of them, so their meat was rarer than other kinds (like Scrab and [[Paramites|Paramite]], and subsequently rather more expensive; some even considered Meech meat a delicacy.<ref name="Habitat"/> RuptureFarms 1029 was built in their natural environment, causing habitat loss, while it hunted Meeches for their meat to be made into the novelty meat snack '''Meech Munchies'''.<ref name="ThisisRF"/> However, these combined made short work of the Meeches, who are now thought completely extinct. This extinction appears not to have been publicly admitted by RuptureFarms.<ref name="MunchiesAd"/>

=== In native society ===
[[Mudokons]] revere Meeches in the same way they do all wildlife, but it has been questioned whether they worship them in the same way they do Scrabs and Paramites. No temple or tribe dedicated to Meeches has ever been explored, although Alf has admitted (however truthfully) that had Meeches remained extant for [[Abe]]’s Temple Trials, he would have had to endure a third adventure in what the questioner named Meecharnia and the Meecharnian Temple;<ref name="Trial"/> Alf later referred to ‘<q>the Meechonian temple of the Mudmeechee lines</q>’.<ref name="Mudmeechee"/>

== Production design ==
Meeches were always drawn and painted in concept art as being fairly green, but when they were modelled, animated, and actually running around in large packs in the ''Abe’s Oddysee'' game engine, they were made brown with red stripes running across their back.<ref name="Packs"/><ref name="Colours"/> No images or videos of these were archived before they were removed from the game, but the original data still exists.<ref name="Packs"/>

The reasons why Meeches were removed from ''Abe’s Oddysee'' are not known, but although their only appearance in the games so far has been a fleeting mention by Abe in ‘This is RuptureFarms’ and the Meech Munchies poster, Lorne Lanning intended for Meeches to be seen later in the ''Oddworld Quintology'' so they could be brought back from extinction.<ref name="Lorne"/> At one point, ''[[Oddworld: The Hand of Odd]]'' was going to set before Abe’s birth,<ref name="HandofOdd"/> when Meeches still existed in the wild, and might have featured in the game.

Meech social structure is based on that of wolves<ref name="Packs"/> or hyænæ,<ref name="Lorne"/> while their body is reminiscent of dinosaurs: their weedy hands seem based off of those of tyrannosaurus rex, while their red striping is inspired by velociraptors.<ref name="Colours"/>

== References ==
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<ref name="Packs">Lee, Matt (7 July 2007). Email to Zerox. ‘[http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?p=311996#post311996 HOLY C~APF~CK! SERIOUSLY!]’. Post 33 in ‘HOLY C~APF~CK! MEECHES OMG!’ (originally ‘HOLY C~APF~CK! SERIOUSLY!’). Oddworld Discussion. Oddworld Forums.</ref>

<ref name="ThisisRF">Oddworld Inhabitants (19 September 1997). ‘This is RuptureFarms’, 1·28. Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee. New York: GT Interactive. Abe: ‘<q>We used to make Meech Munchies/Until the Meeches were through.</q>’</ref>

<ref name="Lorne">Lanning, Lorne (5 May 2000). ‘[http://oddworldlibrary.net/archives/scriptures/interviews/2000/05/You_want_INSIDE_info_How's_this... You want INSIDE info? How's this...]’ interview by souljah_73 and the Exoddus Club, q. 5. The Exoddus Club. Yahoo! Clubs.</ref>

<ref name="Habitat">Lee, Matt (10 July 2007). [http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?p=312449#post312449 Email to Jordan]. Post 17 in ‘Your oddworld e-mails’. Oddworld Discussion. Oddworld Forums.</ref>

<ref name="OWFitat">Oddworld Forums members (26 April 2008 – 12 May 2008). Posts [http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=16911 1] & [http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?p=348701#post348701 31–36] in ‘Meech Environment’. Oddworld Discussion. Oddworld Forums.</ref>

<ref name="Fields">Alf (30 April 2001). [http://oddworld.com/firsttenyears/alf/ow_dearalf08.shtml Dear Alf 08], question 2. Alf’s Rehab & Tea. Official Oddworld website.</ref>

<ref name="MunchiesAd">Olds, Steven (a) & Cathy Johnson (c) (19 September 1997). RuptureFarms Meech Munchies advertisement. In Cathy Johnson & Daniel Wade (eds) (15 September 2004). ‘''Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee''’, p. 57. ''The Art of Oddworld Inhabitants: The First Ten Years 1994–2004''. Mylor: Ballistic Publishing.</ref>

<ref name="Plateau">Alf (1 November 2000). [http://oddworld.com/firsttenyears/alf/ow_dearalf02.shtml Dear Alf 02], question 13. Alf’s Rehab & Tea. Oddworld Official Site Page.</ref>

<ref name="MeechDiet">Crig (1 December 2003). ‘The South Meech Diet’. [http://oddworld.com/firsttenyears/archives/daily_deception1203.html ''The Daily Deception Online'' December 2003]. Oddworld Official Site Page.</ref>

<ref name="alf6">Alf (1 March 2001). [http://oddworld.com/firsttenyears/alf/ow_dearalf06.shtml Dear Alf 06], qq. 13 & 22. Alf’s Rehab & Tea. Oddworld Official Site Page.</ref>

<ref name="alf19">Alf (1 June 2002). [http://oddworld.com/firsttenyears/alf/ow_dearalf19.shtml Dear Alf 19], q. 6. Alf’s Rehab & Tea. Oddworld Official Site Page.</ref>

<ref name="Colours">Lee, Matt (2 July 2007). [http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=15742 Email to Zerox]. Post 1 in ‘HOLY CAPFCK! MEECHES OMG!’ (originally ‘Meech colours revealed!’). Oddworld Discussion. Oddworld Forums.</ref>

<ref name="Sketch">Olds, Steven (c. 1995). [http://oddworldlibrary.net/archives/togg/index.php?image=CAAO0137.jpg5 Meech concept sketch]. From Oddworld Inhabitants (31 July 2000). ‘[http://oddworld.com/firsttenyears/universe/wildlife/characters/ow_meeches.html Meeches]’. Oddworld Universe. Oddworld Official Site Page.</ref>

<ref name="Trial">Alf (1 July 2004). [http://oddworld.com/firsttenyears/alf/ow_dearalf07_04.shtml Dear Alf July 2004], q. 12. Alf’s Rehab & Tea. Oddworld Official Site Page.</ref>

<ref name="Mudmeechee">Alf (1 August 2004). [http://oddworld.com/firsttenyears/alf/ow_dearalf08_04.shtml Dear Alf August 2004], q. 15. Alf’s Rehab & Tea. Oddworld Official Site Page.</ref>

<ref name="HandofOdd">Alf (1 March 2001). [http://oddworld.com/firsttenyears/alf/ow_dearalf06.shtml Dear Alf 06], q. 16. Alf’s Rehab & Tea. Oddworld Official Site Page.</ref>
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Wil: Wil moved page Meeches to Meech: Article titles should be singular

Max at 16:14, 23 October 2010

Max: Created page with "Meech sketch by Steven Olds '''Meeches''' are an extinct species of pack hunter endemic to Mudos. Mentioned only in passing at the sta..."