Why Wings?

[JuicieJ]

Ah, it makes sense now. But where did the gorons go?

The Gorons were the traveling salesman in the game. They weren't a major factor in the game, as Nintendo wanted to try out new races in the game. I guess it's assumable that what Michael Heide said legit, but we don't really know. Doesn't really matter, either. The point is there are very few Gorons in WW.

 

[Axelanderson]

Ah, that makes a whole lot of sense.

 

[bubblecrash]

Why Would the Zora Have to Evolve?

i've been thinking about this for a while but why would the zora have to evolve into the rito? they're fish people its not like they're going to drown. unless they're all freshwater zora, then the salt water would kill them and they would have to get away from it. maybe the freshwater evolved into the rito and the saltwater still live really deep in the ocean where no one can find them. anyone got any other ideas?

 

[Cel-Shaded Deku]

unless they're all freshwater zora, then the salt water would kill them and they would have to get away from it. maybe the freshwater evolved into the rito and the saltwater still live really deep in the ocean where no one can find them.

This is what most people, including myself, say. Although I'm not sure if that's the cannon explanation, if there is one.

 

[RegalBryant]

maybe the gods were worried about the zoras messing up this whole hyrule under ocean thing, or some sort of evil zora would try to take it over or something.

 

[Irishmile]

Well... there could be any number of reasons... do not forget at some point ALL life on earth started in the water.. and at some point life started to venture onto land and in the skies.

I will try to be coherent here..

The most obvious reasons for the evolution of a species is

Food, their regular diet could have been interrupted by huge the drastic ecological shift causing them to adapt and go elsewhere

Predators, Its no secret the bigger the water the bigger the things swimming in it... You take two goldfish put one in a small bowl and the other in a large tank, the one in the tank will get big while the one in the bowl remains small.. There could have been massive new predators that evolved under the water that drove them to evolve to avoid them... this is in my opinion the most likely scenario.

Climate change, their original home would no doubt have changed so either they adapt or leave they obviously left.

God factor.. the gods did it for godly reasons.

also if you look at them they seem to be half way evolved in Ocarina, they clearly are more fish but you can tell at some point they were more like fish... In Ocarina they are adapted to live on land and in sea, and they have what appears to be wing like fins on their arms.. maybe they are already heading towards their evolutionary destiny... Heck maybe they could already glide at that point.. it supports the predator theory those that could jump out of the water and glide in the air would escape and survive to pass on those genes strengthening that trait in the next generation and so on.

 

[Satsy]

Its not very often you see friend and enemy zoras in the same game, if at all (I often her murmurs that this is the case in OoX). I imagine those who didn't turn into Rito, turned into monsters. It'd explain why they both carry the same name, and why a primarily water-based race was forced to turn to the sky when water levels rose.