>omg le heckin bipedal otter how cuuuute!!!
They're both basically 'lets take animal and change it a bit to look more fictional' type designs for furries
Nigga bui/floatzel is textbook artbait, has 1488 gorillion drawings over it, also a clear precursor for soyak transheart designs like meowstic (Caused oneshot award, the devs cited espurr/meowstic for niko)