Having been sent to investigate the alien ship midshipmen Whitbread made the following observations:
"The alien wore only its soft brown fur and four thick patches of black hair one in each armpit, and one at the groin. The Motie. It was shorter than the other one, the dead on in the probe. Its color was different: there was no white markings through the brown fur. Its smooth fur was like one of the Doberman pinschers’ Whitbread's mother used to raise, but there was nothing vicious or powerful-looking about the alien.
The face was no more than a sketch, without expression, except for a gentle upward curve of the lipless mouth, a sardonic half smile. Small, flat-footed, smooth-furred, almost featureless."
The Mote in God’s Eye, Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle.
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