User blog comment:Swiss Ninja/Swiss Ninja's Future.../@comment-1024726-20091214214348

They also follow the foreign enigma thing. The Sapies are always trying to cover up their race (albeit very badly), and no one (in-universe) really understands what they're talking about.

The reason the foreign enigma thing has to hold is that if humans discovered the intelligence of penguins, we'd have this in reality.