To facilitate his creation Victor has recourse to animal parts and tissues from the
abattoir. What Victor thus rightly distinguishes in the previous paragraph as his
"new species" would seem to be an amalgam of several orders of sentient life. The
Creature's mixed status perhaps explains his superhuman strength, also the curious
fact that—like the herbivore cattle and horses to whom he may be physically indebted—he
is a vegetarian.